Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2001 11:06:21 -0700
Reply-To: Karl Wolz <wolzphoto@WORLDNET.ATT.NET>
Sender: Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From: Karl Wolz <wolzphoto@WORLDNET.ATT.NET>
Subject: Re: IMPORTANT!!! prevent dumb accident!
If you go look at a phone company truck or a janitorial van, you'll see what
are commonly called "headache racks" which are expanded metal screens bolted
down behind the front seats to prevent just exactly this situation (60mph
floor scrubbers are a real headache!).
Karl
----- Original Message -----
From: "Horace K. Sawyer" <hksawyer@CATT.COM>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Sunday, August 26, 2001 8:29 AM
Subject: Re: IMPORTANT!!! prevent dumb accident!
> Thats a good post. Im glad you shared that. What an important warning
> that applies to every single person on the list!! That info is just too
> important not to be read. I initially deleted -- didn't see the
IMPORTANT
> part, can you believe that?? All I saw in my mind was the insane a/c
> project -- and hit delete. Then the old "something tells me to go back
> into trash and pull that one out" took over.
> I was going to ask you to consider reposting with a different subject --
> but I guess you did all that was necessary. (After rethinking, I decided
> to rename the subject myself) That warning is a darn good one and we all
> need to rethink about packing anything in *any* vehicle, especially vans,
> where you tend to just throw stuff in because it is so large. Thanks
again
> for the reminder. It is amazing how many people do goofy things like
> that. Not planning for problems. To me, it shows how it can affect more
> than themselves too. The pole could have easily hit him in the head and
> very likely he would have crashed into your van, or veered off into
> oncoming traffic, or piled up on the side of the road. Deaths?? No
telling
> what might have happened. Thank goodness for lucky breaks, eh!
> hk
>
>
>
> At 07:35 AM 8/26/01 -0400, Jeff Stewart wrote:
> >Here's something else to think about. On the way to EveryBus 2001, our
> >caravan had to make a sudden stop due to one bus breaking down. The bus
> >behind me stopped about an inch away from my rear bumper, but when he had
> >packed for the trip, he had put his tent poles on top of a pile of stuff
in
> >the back-one of the poles became a missile, missing the back of his head
by
> >mere inches and going right into the windshield, which it cracked! Better
to
> >lose a windshield than have a metal pole stuck in the back of your head.
> >Pack carefully!
> >Jeff Stewart
> >1977 Westfalia
> >1974 S. Beetle Conv.
> >http://www.geocities.com/busnut4277
>
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