From: Hachiroku ハチロク on 5 Aug 2010 15:19 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 5 Aug 2010 15:39 On Aug 5, 12:19 pm, Hachiroku $B%O%A%m%/(B <Tru...(a)e86.GTS> wrote: > On Thu, 05 Aug 2010 19:10:16 +0000, Loony Left wrote: > > Hoping to keep other drivers from being harmed, Storm said she aimed the > > car at a large pole and prepared to jump. > > > "I opened up the car door and I undid my seatbelt. I looked out and you > > have that moment of 'Is this my best option?'" she said. "Then I tucked > > and rolled out, right into traffic." > > Good idea. Much, much better than: > > Depressing the brake > Moving the shift lever to neutral > Turning the key to the OFF position or > Holding the START button for 5 seconds. > > Yeah, I'd leap out of a speeding vehicle into traffic. Uh huh. > > Whew... While I agree with you, after she went to the shop twice, who knows what the techs could have done to the trans shifting, brakes, ... Is the pole alright?
From: Dave Head on 5 Aug 2010 16:12 On Thu, 5 Aug 2010 15:45:14 -0400, "C. E. White" <cewhite3(a)mindspring.com> wrote: >Or maybe >criminally negligent.....suppose the car had run out of control and killed >an innocent bystander. Uh... the car was _already_ running out of control. The only difference would be whether she was in it or not when it killed the bystander.
From: JoeSpareBedroom on 5 Aug 2010 16:17 "Hachiroku ????" <Trueno(a)e86.GTS> wrote in message news:i3f2re$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 5 Aug 2010 16:35
"Dave Head" <rally2xs(a)att.net> wrote in message news:0p6m565i2c77upis7a5ba62o22rovqjpg0(a)4ax.com... > 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 |