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in article d0ic0q$gfa$1@gemini.csx.cam.ac.uk, Richard P. Grant at
rpg14.TakeThisOut@yahoo.co.uk.invalid wrote on 3/7/05 12:02 PM:

 > But the coping mechanism cut in, and it wasn't until 2 hours later when
 > we'd been taken home and the girls were asleep in their own beds that I
 > started shaking.

That's how it's usually been for me. In threatening situations, I go into a
kind of overdrive and I am so busy not getting killed or maimed, that I
don't have anything left over to be afraid with.

A few hours later, it starts to sink in just how bad it *might* have been.

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Harro de Jong <hdejong.TakeThisOut@zzzzonnet.nl.invalid> wrote:

 > the whole thing reeked of rubber and
 > overheated brakes...

You mean, like a Land Rover?

:)

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Paul Frankenstein <X.DeleteThis@x.x> wrote:

 > In article <BE50DBD9.23E2%emrys@olypen.com>,
 > Michael Emrys <emrys.DeleteThis@olypen.com> wrote:
 > * One of the ones I rode was an empty (fortunately) cattle truck and the other
 > * was an empty (again fortunately) logging truck. Climbing into the cab
 > * presented an interesting challenge. It feels weird riding nearly 10' above
 > * the road.
 >
 > Just pretend that you're in a Tornado.

He didn't say anything about having to get out and push :)

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charleskooijonusenet.TakeThisOut@mac.com (Charles Kooij) wrote in
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 >You mean, like a Land Rover?

I didn't mean rubber in the sense of 'moldy wellies' but 'smoking tires'.
Apart from that, it's pretty close.


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In article <d167e6$psl$1@gemini.csx.cam.ac.uk>,
Richard P. Grant <rpg.TakeThisOut@mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk> wrote:
* dano wrote:
* >
* > Since he missed you on the first pass, but you hit him on the subsequent
* > pass - whose fault is it? Or more precisely, whose insurance has to pay
* > up?
*
* Currently it's looking shared, but we have the police on our side and are
* maintaining we wouldn't have hit him had he not pulled into us. He
* caused the accident, basically.

It would seem to me that his insurance company is being incredibly dick-like
in not just giving up already--the only reason you hit him was because

1) you had been hit by him, which caused you to lose control of your vehicle
and thus
2) since you were no longer in control of your car (and, more importantly,
it was not reasonably forseeable* that you would lose control of your car)
then he was the cause of the accident.

p

*of course, this is based on an understanding of American tort law; English
tort law is probably somewhat different...
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dano <dano45.TakeThisOut@spamcop.net> wrote:

 > In article <d173nd$r2p$1@gemini.csx.cam.ac.uk>,
 > rpg14.TakeThisOut@yahoo.co.uk.invalid (Richard P. Grant) wrote:
 >
  > > 'England really needs France around to provide comic relief.'
 >
 > And so the old duffers have a warm place to retire to?

Nah, those go to Spain. Benidorm, places like that.
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in article d1cv47$fal$2@gemini.csx.cam.ac.uk, Richard P. Grant at
rpg14.TakeThisOut@yahoo.co.uk.invalid wrote on 3/17/05 2:08 PM:

 > Harro, you want to meet up in a couple of weeks?

Don't let him drive, Harro, he's accident-prone, you know.

:-)

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