OT: World War I in color?

Aug 01, 2004 22 Replies

Bill:

You shouldn't have got me started on this subject. Last Fall I'm coming back to Baltimore from Washington one evening, I pull up to the toll booth at the Ft, McHenry tunnel on I-95 and I get the shock of my life. There is a van ahead of me and I can see clearly through the rear window that there is a small color TV hanging where the rear view mirror is supposed to be. It wasn't any itty-bitty screen either, I could tell the program that was on. I asked a friend who is a Maryland State Trooper if that wasn't illegal and he says only in some states. It seems that technology is sort of ahead of the laws in some places. The legislatures simply haven't caught up with what's going on out there.

Bill Shuey

Both these stories seem to indicate that the biggest problem on the highways today is the loose nut behind the wheel. As a highway engineer for 32 years, the one that always set my teeth on edge was the person (man OR woman) with a car full of kids and all the kids standing on the seats or hanging out the windows. When there WAS an accident, they always whine "I didn't know!" My ass...

-- John The history of things that didn't happen has never been written. . - - - Henry Kissinger

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