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Car Seen 'on Wrong Side Of Road' By Harry Dunn Base

Discussion in 'Lounge' started by PerryL, Feb 14, 2020.

  1. I have done exactly the same near Las Vegas and nearly did it once in Germany, it was indeed down to a lack of immediate visual clues on roads with no traffic and failing light.
    The level of driving required on UK roads is IMHO much higher than that required in the States due to the narrow, winding and more challenging to drive road networks around the UK. Also the average age of military personnel is much lower with the proportion of younger or inexperienced drivers much higher. A perfect cocktail for accidents and a situation that was evident at the UK military bases located in Germany. I agree with Paul, this woman should be taken to the civil courts in US
     
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  2. Ok.

    Then the next question is are American cars that bad for driving in America ?

    sorry, off topic I know.
     
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  3. But why would you be paying attention to angry bigots in another country? How would you even know about them? Ahh, I know - MSM:D
     
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  4. No, coz fuel is cheap and their roads are straight.
     
  5. Sooo ... the product is fit-for-purpose and also helps to ensure the economy works for you and your fellow countrymen ... not just angry bigots from abroad.

    Interesting! I like your thinking.
     
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  6. We hired a Chevrolet Malibu for a 2 1/2 week, 2,500 mile road trip around California, Nevada, Arizona and Utah.
    It was great.
    It was comfy, frugal and commodious with sufficient, if not excess power.
     
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  7. In fairness, it's very easily done. Ive done it briefly this week whilst in beautiful Europe
    I hope I'd have stayed, apologised, and faced whatever was coming my way afterwards though.
     
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  8. OR, I did the same. 2,500 miles in 10 days through New Mexico, Arizona, Nevada and Utah with no plan other than find a motel after 5pm and try to get to all the big national parks that happened along the way. They gave us a free upgrade to a brand new 92 Ford Thunderbird, trouble being we really did not need that big a car and it drank fuel. When I put the AC on you could see the fuel gauge moving, it was gutless, handled amusingly but had an all important cruise control fitted. It was on day one of that trip, west of Las Vegas when I drove on the wrong side of the road
     
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  9. Does this mean that the hundreds of thousands of Americans that buy Toyotas -other brands are available- dislike their country, want their countrymen to be hungry and unemployed?
     
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  10. One question that occurs to me:

    As the wife of what is widely assumed to be a US spook ... was Anne Sercoolas ever given a realistic option to offer herself up for arrest?

    I'm sure there is an answer to this - I would like to hear it.
     
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  11. Wait.

    Are you suggesting that not all Americans think the same and that the population isn't wholly homogeneous?

    Ima need a moment here to digest, Jez. You rocked me just now.
     
  12. You say Americans are buying a product due to patriotic ferver/ feelings. You also say the countries can be wholly homogenous in their attitude -or is it just "Brits"?

    Now clearly the facts are important. All Americans do not follow your alleged patriotic tendencies as shown by the sales figures.
    Are some discerning whilst others are blinded by patriotism? Or is it something else you are trying to say?
     
  13. Are you drunk?
     
  14. Not at all. I am unable to reconcile your contradictory points of view.
     
  15. Her oppourtunity to give herself up for arrest, is on going. The UK justice system would correctly arrest her if she returned to the UK.
     
  16. Thanks for the info. You appear to have missed my point but yay, cool cool.
     
  17. Maybe that is because you have entirely failed to grasp what i said?

    Just a suggestion, remain calm if at all possible!
     
  18. Its really simple. Sacoolas has a "realistic option to give herself up"- every one charged with breaking the law does; that she chooses not to do so and remains a fugitive is the result of her own volition.
     
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  19. Holy shit. You really don't get it, do you?

    I bet you think that Julian Assange's life would have been a lot simpler is he had offered up himself for arrest instead of hiding in the Ecuadoran embassy.
    (Jez now rails against the relevance of a reference to Assange).

    I wish I lived in your world, Jez. So much simpler and easier ... if not entirely realistic.
     
  20. You do live in the same world, but for one reason or another you sometimes choose to make conflicting points of view the basis of your arguement, frequently citing unrelated subjects, blaming world wide conspiracies, all the while interspersed with tongue in cheek insults.

    On other days you are lucid with clever & occasionally uniquely interesting views. Alas today is not one of those days.

    Still thats just my opinion, there are others.
     
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