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Sunday, 14 September 2003

Racin'

On Friday we drove down to Koblenz to see my family. On the drive we had to experience again the unbelievably bully attitude some people show on the autobahn. Especially Mercedes, BMW and Audi drivers are good at bullying. Not only is it very bothering but also extremely dangerous when they close on a slower car at over 200kph and then stick to the other car’s rear bumper at a distance of only like one or two meters. If the car in front has to brake for some reason there’s no way the bully can avoid hitting him.

There was a horrible accident a couple of months ago when a young woman lost control over her car when she tried to give way to a bully Mercedes and hit a tree at the side of the autobahn killing herself and her baby daughter. Michi and I talked about this and came to the conclusion that the penalty for speeding and especially bullying should be a lot more severe. Fines don’t hurt these people much, but taking away their driver’s license for a time would… The real problem though is that there aren’t enough cops to patrol the autobahn.

I even got bullied by an RV at 130kph. RVs aren’t even allowed to drive more than 100kph. Sucker.

[Archive Link]  Posted by Edda at 15:49 CET

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