From: Hachiroku ハチロク on
On Thu, 05 Aug 2010 19:10:16 +0000, Loony Left wrote:

> Hoping to keep other drivers from being harmed, Storm said she aimed the
> car at a large pole and prepared to jump.
>
> "I opened up the car door and I undid my seatbelt. I looked out and you
> have that moment of 'Is this my best option?'" she said. "Then I tucked
> and rolled out, right into traffic."


Good idea. Much, much better than:

Depressing the brake
Moving the shift lever to neutral
Turning the key to the OFF position or
Holding the START button for 5 seconds.


Yeah, I'd leap out of a speeding vehicle into traffic. Uh huh.

Whew...

From: Michael on
On Aug 5, 12:19 pm, Hachiroku $B%O%A%m%/(B <Tru...(a)e86.GTS> wrote:
> On Thu, 05 Aug 2010 19:10:16 +0000, Loony Left wrote:
> > Hoping to keep other drivers from being harmed, Storm said she aimed the
> > car at a large pole and prepared to jump.
>
> > "I opened up the car door and I undid my seatbelt. I looked out and you
> > have that moment of 'Is this my best option?'" she said. "Then I tucked
> > and rolled out, right into traffic."
>
> Good idea. Much, much better than:
>
> Depressing the brake
> Moving the shift lever to neutral
> Turning the key to the OFF position or
> Holding the START button for 5 seconds.
>
> Yeah, I'd leap out of a speeding vehicle into traffic. Uh huh.
>
> Whew...


While I agree with you, after she went to the shop twice, who knows
what the techs could have done to the trans shifting, brakes, ...

Is the pole alright?
From: Dave Head on
On Thu, 5 Aug 2010 15:45:14 -0400, "C. E. White"
<cewhite3(a)mindspring.com> wrote:

>Or maybe
>criminally negligent.....suppose the car had run out of control and killed
>an innocent bystander.

Uh... the car was _already_ running out of control. The only
difference would be whether she was in it or not when it killed the
bystander.
From: JoeSpareBedroom on
"Hachiroku ????" <Trueno(a)e86.GTS> wrote in message
news:i3f2re$g06$1(a)news.albasani.net...
> On Thu, 05 Aug 2010 19:10:16 +0000, Loony Left wrote:
>
>> Hoping to keep other drivers from being harmed, Storm said she aimed the
>> car at a large pole and prepared to jump.
>>
>> "I opened up the car door and I undid my seatbelt. I looked out and you
>> have that moment of 'Is this my best option?'" she said. "Then I tucked
>> and rolled out, right into traffic."
>
>
> Good idea. Much, much better than:


You're feeding a troll. Get back to your unfinished assignment - the one
where you try to prove that Kerry parked his boat in R.I. to evade taxes.
You think you've proven that, but you haven't.


From: C. E. White on

"Dave Head" <rally2xs(a)att.net> wrote in message
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> On Thu, 5 Aug 2010 15:45:14 -0400, "C. E. White"
> <cewhite3(a)mindspring.com> wrote:
>
>>Or maybe
>>criminally negligent.....suppose the car had run out of control and killed
>>an innocent bystander.
>
> Uh... the car was _already_ running out of control. The only
> difference would be whether she was in it or not when it killed the
> bystander.

She had time to call 911, but not enough to shift the car to neutral or turn
the ignition off??? In a world where companies can be sued for selling hot
coffee, I think I can make the case that someone who jumps out of a moving
car instead of shifting it to neutral is negligent - especially if she had
time to call 911 and tell them she was going to aim it at a pole and jump
out.

Ed