I have an idea....

topic posted Wed, November 15, 2006 - 12:53 PM by  Unsubscribed
.....why not just, um, NOT DRIVE AN SUV???

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    Mon, November 20, 2006 - 1:48 PM
    Because they have more functions than a van for news and or production video crews. I have no choice.
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      Mon, November 20, 2006 - 9:17 PM
      Yes but I don't think the grandma who ran over and killed her grandson in the driveway was doing any equipment hauling or heavy construction lifting...
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    Wed, November 22, 2006 - 10:43 PM
    If you need a camera to see what's behind you then MAYBE your CAR is TOO fucking ENORMOUS!

    Come on!
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      Sat, November 25, 2006 - 5:22 PM
      It was Bad Parenting Skills!
      If your an adult in a moving car you MUST BE SURE of where the Child Is,before you put that car in gear!
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        Fri, December 1, 2006 - 9:15 PM
        how about that. i actually agree with jake in realizing that the type of vehicle is irrelevant and that poor parenting is the cause.
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          Mon, December 4, 2006 - 12:04 PM
          I'm sure joeyp/tony will post something to the effect that they probably weren't wearing seatbelts (which they probably weren't) but so much for SUVs being safe, armored vehicles:

          "BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. -- A sport utility vehicle carrying Lane Garrison of TV's "Prison Break" and three teenagers struck a tree, killing a 17-year-old boy, police said.

          Two 15-year-old girls inside the vehicle were also injured, one critically, during the late Saturday night accident, police said. Garrison, 26, had minor injuries.

          The vehicle jumped a curb and hit a tree. Authorities were trying to determine who drove the SUV, which was registered to Garrison.

          The boy was taken to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center where he died. His name was not released. The conditions of the girls were not immediately released."
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            Tue, December 5, 2006 - 8:27 PM
            that's funny. i knew it was only a matter of time before you'd try and claim a connection between me and whoever tony is. for the record, i am not operating a profile under the name "tony". but i am sure that someone else in this group is. whoever tony is asked to add me to his friend list and i did. very conviently, i might add, after i made the argument that vandalizing hummers deserved an other than peaceful response. i don't now, nor do i ever intend to own a hummer. and, if i did, it would be the original full size that i could mount a 50 caliber on not these cheap knock-offs that are marketed to the masses. what you should have done is send me a private message asking me if i was masquerading as someone else in order to cause trouble rather than make a fool of yourself by implicating me as a troublemaker in a thread and attaching a tragic story to it. a kid is dead and it really doesn't matter what kind of vehicle he was driving. it matters that he is dead.
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              Wed, December 6, 2006 - 11:46 AM
              Yeah, you're right, I should just send you a private message next time I intend to use a / to represent "and/or" instead of making it look like I'm accusing you of being tony; or a message detailing why I jumped you to the punch about "people not wearing seatbelts kill people, not SUVs" and oh look a smile shiny object
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                Wed, December 6, 2006 - 1:22 PM
                when you actually write a complete and coherent thought i will be glad to respond.
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                  Wed, December 6, 2006 - 1:38 PM
                  xnowhereboyx's posts are some of the most erudite on this board. to say his writing is inchoherent simply shows your own lack of comprehension skills.
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                    Wed, December 6, 2006 - 2:19 PM
                    I'm not so erudite that I didn't have to look up what erudite means, though.

                    From now on I will send you a private message before mentioning your name on this board. Duly noted, sir oh look another small shiny object
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                      Wed, December 6, 2006 - 4:16 PM
                      that's ok. there was a time when i used to think the word was "ereodite."
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                        Fri, December 8, 2006 - 3:07 PM
                        From the December 4 issue of TIME, in the Year in Medicine section (the last sentence is the key):

                        Think you're safer because you talk on a hands-free cell phone while driving? Think again. Using either type of phone while trying to drive a car is roughly equivalent to driving with a blood-alcohol concentration of 0.08%, which is high enough to get you arrested in any of the 50 states for driving under the influence. Folks who use hands-free cell phones in simulation trials also exhibited slower reaction times and took longer to hit the brakes than drivers who weren't otherwise distracted. Data from real-life driving tests show that cell-phone use rivals drowsy driving as a major cause of accidents. SUV drivers, it turns out, are more likely to talk on a cell phone - and to resist wearing their seat belt.