[Coco] talk funny

[Gene Heskett]

On Tuesday 23 December 2003 15:11, Dave Kelly wrote:
>  ----- Original Message -----
>  From: Roger Taylor
>
>  Speaking of Texans... visitors from there also drive in the
> emergency lane in our city as if it's a turning lane.  I've seen
> them jump ahead of 10 cars before while zipping down the emergency
> lane.  The first people in line are waiting to make a legal right
> turn.  Anyway, nobody gets out of hand because the Texan is usually
> driving a quite huge vehicle. :) In my old age, I'm coming to the
> opinion that we should check the DNA of some of these people to see
> if they qualify as Texans.  ( My fathers side came in 1903 and my
> mothers side with Austins colony. ).
>
>  We are hosting the super bowl shortly. In trying to get ready we
> have build a new stadium, new hotels, refurbished the downtown
> area, and installed a rapid transit rail line between the stadium
> and downtown.
>
>  This rail line is an ongoing controversy across several mayoral
> term. A lot of people want it, a lot of people don't want it going
> thru their neighborhood, blah, blah, blah.  Lots of rhetoric.
>
>  The whole point if this posting is:
>  We have a rail line finished enough to work with the super bowl
> and in the past month have been going through a testing stage to
> work the kinks out.  During this month there have been 4 accidents
> involving the rail line and cars.  In all 4 cases it has been
> either a pickup or SUV and in all incidents the vehicle turned left
> in front of the train.
>
>  I'm confused. How can you not know there is a train besides you
> when you just sped up to turn left in front of it?
>
>  *soap box attitude off*

Well, one could be crass about it and claim its the Darwin theory at 
work I suppose.  Or maybe they are bucking for one of the Darwin 
Awards?  But then I don't think I'd want that to be *my* claim to 
fame...

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