Date:         Wed, 8 May 2002 12:09:39 -0400
Reply-To:     Karl Ploessl <ploessl@SUNMAC.SPECT.UPENN.EDU>
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From:         Karl Ploessl <ploessl@SUNMAC.SPECT.UPENN.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Only in America...??
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". . . . . And the winner is:
>>
>> 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.)...any of youse done this in yer Vanagons?"

        I have to chime in: when I had my nice '84 GTI and used - for the
first time in my life - the cruise control it was such a strange feeling
that the car would drive by itsself. I had to force myself to concentrate
on the road and not doing sightseeing! In a westy I might have gone to the
back too and prepared myself a cup of coffee :-).

        Karl.

Karl
'81 Westy "Jenny"
Wilmington, DE