Date:         Wed, 8 May 2002 09:17:24 -0700
Reply-To:     Steve Sullivan <steveis@SPEAKEASY.ORG>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Steve Sullivan <steveis@SPEAKEASY.ORG>
Subject:      Re: Only in America...?? Only in a Vanagon??
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Yes, well, (snif) I plan to sue VW for not telling me not to drive with the
top up, which I like to do for the extra ventilashion/ventillahton/air. They
should have warned me that would be a problem when I came to that low
overpass...'specially as I was standing up at the time.f Ow.

After all, I do like to use cruising control to go back and boil some water
on the stove for coffee once in awhile, why else have a camper!? (Also, I
like to mix some coffee in my Yukon Hootch for those long road trips,
although I think I heard once that was a bad idea, mixing drinking and
driving, but may it's just cause the coffee makes the hootch taste worse.)
In my case, of course, "cruise control" is a brick on the accelerator, but
I've had no trouble yet. I also like to get exercise running back and forth
while driving and holding a pair of scissors. Doesn't say in the manual I
can't, nor that I can't smoke when I work on that darn  propane leak. It's
handy because I can use the cigarette to test for leaks by holding it next
to the fittings and seeing if it flares up. Bet y'all don't know that trick.
Heh, heh. Didn't see nothin about it in the manual. So I say, sue 'em all!!!
This man, Merv, is my hero.

Stup Idman

Inbred and Proud!!



On 5/7/02 11:42 PM "Andrew Grebneff" <andrew.grebneff@STONEBOW.OTAGO.AC.NZ>
said:

>> Mr. Merv Grazinski of Oklahoma City.  In November 2000 Mr. Grazinski
>> purchased a brand new 32 foot Winnebago motor home. On his first trip home,
>> having entered the freeway, he set the cruise control at 70 mph and calmly
>> left the drivers seat to go into the back and make himself a cup of coffee.
>> Not surprisingly the Winnie left the freeway, crashed and overturned.  Mr
>> Grazinski sued Winnebago for not advising him in the handbook that he
>> couldn't actually do this.  He was awarded $1,750,000 plus  a new Winnie.
>> (Winniebago actually changed their handbooks on the back
>> of  this court case, just in case there are any other complete morons buying
>> their vehicles.)