Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2008 17:14:11 -0400
Reply-To: Mike <mbucchino@CHARTER.NET>
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From: Mike <mbucchino@CHARTER.NET>
Subject: Re: Frydaye - Chinese VW Jetta gets flattened......
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Gee, Ben, who pissed in your Wheaties this morning?
I used the words, 'apparently' and 'they seem to be', for a very good
reason; to avoid making such an obviously, blatantly irresponsible
statement.
This truck driver seems to fly through some very thick traffic (speed too
fast for conditions), and didn't appear to slow (failure to use due caution,
and failure to allow driver's turning left to clear the intersection, when
that car was clearly in the intersection first) for a very busy
intersection.
So, in my mind, and probably in the eyes of the law, he was mostly if not
entirely at fault. I do know that in Japan, he would have been found 100%
at fault.
Professional drivers are generally required to able to properly control
thier vehicle in any circumstance. I have held an international driver's
license since 1982 (when I lived in Okinawa Japan for 3 years), and have
been driving professionally for over 17 years.
And just for the record, I have been travelling both professionally and
recreationally all over the world and the USA, for the past 26 years, so I
don't think that I need to "get out more". I've seen you make this
callous comment to others, also. You are not the only person on this list
who regularly travels extensively.
In addition, if you want to call someone on a single, merely simple
typographical error, you should be very careful to make sure that your
reply doesn't contain any such oversights (like "type on" instead of "type
of")............it just makes you look bad, it shows very poor form, and in
Neil's words, is "unnecessary".
Your consistently poor use of the English laguage shows in practically all
of your postings. Maybe you should should turn your attention to perfecting
the language, spelling, content and typos of your own postings, before
wasting your efforts in picking apart the mistakes in other listee's
postings.
Mike B.
----- Original Message -----
From: "BenT Syncro" <syncro@GMAIL.COM>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Friday, October 10, 2008 12:26 PM
Subject: Re: Frydaye - Chinese VW Jetta gets flattened......
> On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 3:15 AM, Mike <mbucchino@charter.net> wrote:
>
>> Oh, those crazy divers in China. This busy intersection doesn't appear
>> to
>> have any traffic signals or rules!
>>
>> They're apparently all new drivers there, and they seem to try to drive
>> cars the same way that they've walked or bicycled for the past several
>> thousand years..........
>>
>> http://www.break.com/index/scary-truck-rollover-destroys-small-car.html
>>
>
>
> What do "divers" have to do with busy intersections in China? You really
> should get out more.
> This type on accident can occur anywhere. Just turn your TV to the Spike
> channel on late
> afternoons. Sure there is a greater ratio of inexperienced vs. experienced
> drivers in China. But
> making an absolute statement they are "...apparently all new drivers
> there..." is irresponsible.
>
> The two postings that followed makes a good example. I am not saying they
> are inaccurate but
> the posters clearly locked on the idea of China rather the accident video.
> Do you think they
> would have written something totally different had you said something like
> "Those crazy drivers
> in San Francisco..."
>
> By the way, the bicycle has only been with us since circa the 18th
> century.
> So no, the Chinese
> or anyone else for that matter could not have been doing this for '...the
> past several thousand years..."
> Hard to say how the Chinese walked thousands of years ago w/o having any
> first-hand accounts.
> I suspect they walked the same way as other people elsewhere in the world
> -- mostly on two legs.
>
>
> Regards,
>
> BenT
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