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Re: Kids racing

To: Ed Van Scoy <lsr128@msn.com>
Subject: Re: Kids racing
From: "Thomas E. Bryant" <saltracer@awwwsome.com>
Date: Mon, 05 Apr 2004 07:17:31 -0700
AMEN!

Tom, Redding CA - #216 D/CC

Ed Van Scoy wrote:
> Tom,
> I think there is one other important factor between our generation and
> today's kids - our Dads taught us to drive (at least in my case) and we
> didn't go for our license until we had passed the hardest test - the Old
> Man's approval. Today, parents assume driver's ed in High School teaches
> them everything, and then run for a lawyer to sue somebody when they crash
> because they had 8 kids in the car, stereo cranked to 150 dB, and prolly
> some illegal substance in their blood. Maybe I'm just in a pessimistic mood,
> but I do think it made a hell of a difference when parents taught the
> driving. We have several street racing deaths a month in the Phoenix area,
> almost all of the sport compacts. We managed to control 500 HP hot rods in
> high school, why can't they control 100 hp? Maybe the Village has failed to
> raise the child...........................
> Ed



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