Date:         Fri, 2 Oct 2009 10:16:06 -0700
Reply-To:     Mark Hersh <cmwolfsburg@GMAIL.COM>
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From:         Mark Hersh <cmwolfsburg@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: No High Beams
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The guy tailgating me yesterday at 645 am on US 101 in southwestern WA was a
cop, although I did not know it until he passed when I pulled over partially
off the road to let the blankety-blank by.  Why didn't he just put on his
emerg. lights if he wanted by that badly?

Reminded me of a story told to me by an old boss who said he had a friend
that mounted an airplane landing light on top of his old VW bug to activate
when an oncoming driver would not dim.  Said it dimmed all the other lights
in the VW.  Don't know if it was BS or not, but he could tell a good story
and just remembering it made me laugh again.


On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 7:06 PM, David Beierl <dbeierl@attglobal.net> wrote:

> At 07:25 PM 9/28/2009, Loren Busch wrote:
>
>> Some years back I saw an ad for a reflector that could be mounted on your
>> dash, facing to the rear, that would put most of the light from the bozo
>> behind you with the high brights right back in his face.  Didn't buy one
>> at
>> the time, wish I had, and can't find them now...
>>
>
> Not sure I'd recommend that.  The very last time I punished someone
> who'd passed me with his brights on, he fell back alongside and aimed
> a pistol at me.  That was in VA in 1972.
>
> A friend once thought about designing a rig with an aiming CO2 laser
> -- invisible beam and he thought the lamp reflector would focus
> enough energy on the filament to blow it.  That would be more my
> style if I were going to get shirty...
>
> :)
> D
>



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