Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2001 22:25:30 -0700 From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> To: Brad Knowles <brad.knowles@skynet.be> Cc: Kris Kirby <kris@catonic.net>, Chern Lee <chern@FreeBSD.org>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Bad Drivers Message-ID: <3BB7FE4A.DCF3D207@mindspring.com> References: <Pine.BSF.4.33.0109300619471.94053-100000@spaz.catonic.net> <p05100303b7dcf124e32f@[194.78.144.27]>
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Brad Knowles wrote: > > At 6:23 AM +0000 9/30/01, Kris Kirby wrote: > > > Shoot, you should have see the local city cop at midnight in > > after-festival traffic... Jumped three lanes at 65 -- in a 50. No lights, > > no turn-signals ... just jumped. > > Sometimes I wonder about emergency services personnel. For > example, do they appreciate or even known what some citizens do on > their behalf? Foster City occasionally runs the fire engine with the lights and sirens, followed a few seconds later by a cop car, which pulls over an tickets drivers who do not pull over or otherwise yield right of way to emergency vehicles. I have a friend who is the driver on a paramedic fire engine. If you stop at a light in front of him when he needs to go though, and you do not run the light on his behalf, if that is the only way to get the hell out of the way, he will edge the truck up behind you, and _push_ your car through the red light to the other side of the intersection (assuming you don't get the point and start moving yourself). I, for one, am absolutely tickled pink about this: if he were responding to an emergency involving me, or someone I cared about, I would be very, very glad that he's willing to do this (I _am_ very, very glad that he's willing to do this, even without that, in fact). -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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