Replying to a message of Tony Ingenoso to Adam Flinton:

 TI> From: "Tony Ingenoso" 

 TI> Right.  And all that stuff flies by itself onto the shelves on magic
 TI> carpets. Got any idea what the culture of long haul truckers is in
 TI> the US?

I remember during the last trucker's strike, in some areas non-strikers had
to be convoyed by state police and some strikers parked their rigs to block
the fuel pumps at truck stops (if I owned the stop and somebody tried that
I'd tell him to move it, if he refused *I'd* move it with a Cat D18 - and
not gently).  During that strike in the dead of the night out in western
Nebraska somebody shot a rifle bullet through the center of the windshield
of a semi on I-80; kllled the driver's wife graveyard dead, she was sitting
next to him on the engine hump.  Then there was the bit with the Greyhound
drivers some years back, some strikers were shooting at busses full of
people.
Don't even want to get into what the coal miners were doing back in the 70s.


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