[OT] The world's most dangerous road

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programme...nt/6136268.stm

Any yet still the drivers take risks to get somewhere faster.

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"Tony Raven" wrote in message
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programme...nt/6136268.stm

Any yet still the drivers take risks to get somewhere faster.

--
Tony

"Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using
his intelligence; he is just using his memory."
- Leonardo da Vinci

Related but somewhat less [OT]:

http://gravitybolivia.com/view?page=12

On Sun, 12 Nov 2006 13:13:08 +0000, Tony Raven wrote:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programme...nt/6136268.stm

Any yet still the drivers take risks to get somewhere faster.

Don't bother trying to sleep in a layby either. "This is not a good place to
drop off." You'll be pun-ished.

On 12/11/2006 13:22, John Wilton said,

Related but somewhat less [OT]:

http://gravitybolivia.com/view?page=12

Can't help wondering if the driver looked before he stepped out of his
car...

http://tinyurl.com/yaaboo

(What a great tinyurl that one is!!!!!)

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"Tony Raven" wrote in message
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programme...nt/6136268.stm

Any yet still the drivers take risks to get somewhere faster.


Presumably to heaven/hell?

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"Tony Raven" wrote in message
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programme...nt/6136268.stm

Any yet still the drivers take risks to get somewhere faster.

In Clarkson's column yesterday he moaned about the 7th car driver to end up
in his garden due to a dangerous bend. Didn't occur to him that it was due
to poor driving skills, he blamed an unusual camber.

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Simon Mason wrote on 12/11/2006 14:53 +0100:
"Tony Raven" wrote in message
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programme...nt/6136268.stm

Any yet still the drivers take risks to get somewhere faster.

In Clarkson's column yesterday he moaned about the 7th car driver to end up
in his garden due to a dangerous bend. Didn't occur to him that it was due
to poor driving skills, he blamed an unusual camber.


Well he can hardly blame poor driving skills can he - they are only
driving according to the Gospel of JC.

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Tony

"Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using
his intelligence; he is just using his memory."
- Leonardo da Vinci

"Paul Boyd" wrote in message
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On 12/11/2006 13:22, John Wilton said,

Related but somewhat less [OT]:

http://gravitybolivia.com/view?page=12

Can't help wondering if the driver looked before he stepped out of his
car...

http://tinyurl.com/yaaboo

(What a great tinyurl that one is!!!!!)


does anyone else play tinyulotto ? pick 5 or 6 random characters/letters add
it to "tinyurl.com" and see what comes up?

On Nov 12, 1:13 pm, Tony Raven wrote:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programme...espondent/6136...

Any yet still the drivers take risks to get somewhere faster.


Someday I must make the effort to revisit the Highway of Brotherhood
and Unity that once linked Zagreb and Belgrade[1].

That was a truely sphincter tightening ride on a knackered bus that
intermittently caught fire and the drivers of which were knocking back
vodka and swapping the helm whilst hurtling round blind bends. The
narrowness of the road and depth of precipice were something to behold.
As were the numerous skid marks leading to the abyss.

Had my mother not been with me assuring me she'd seen far worse, I'd
have got out and walked.

[1] Apparently, the death toll /reduced/ while the road became a battle
theatre rather than a road.

in message , Simon Mason
') wrote:


"Tony Raven" wrote in message
...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programme...nt/6136268.stm

Any yet still the drivers take risks to get somewhere faster.

In Clarkson's column yesterday he moaned about the 7th car driver to end
up in his garden due to a dangerous bend. Didn't occur to him that it was
due to poor driving skills, he blamed an unusual camber.

sarcasm
Because, after all, a driver cannot reasonably be expected to have the
skill to cope with unusual camber.
/sarcasm

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