On 03/17/2010 06:37 AM, Ross Sauer -> Bob Ackley wrote:
 RS> "Bob Ackley -> Ross Sauer"  wrote in
 RS> news:20580$MATZDOBRE{at}JamNNTPd:

 RS>>> I remember reading about a 59 Caddy that killed someone
 RS>>> standing still, a kid ran into that huge fin and it killed
 RS>>> him.

 BA>> I find that hard to believe. I could believe the kid was riding a
 BA>> bicycle (or motorcycle), hit the car, went sailing and broke his neck
 BA>> on landing. BTW one couldn't run into the fin without running into the
 BA>> side of the car, the fins on Cadillacs just weren't that big; IIRC the
 BA>> biggest fins were on the '57 through '61 Chrysler products (Chrysler,
 BA>> Dodge, Plymouth, Imperial, deSoto).

 RS> I remembered reading it somewhere, but couldn't remember where.

You didn't read it anywhere. You made it up.

 RS> Did some research last night, found it again. It was mentioned in Ralph
 RS> Nader's book, "Unsafe At Any Speed."

Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!!!!!!

That book is full of so many lies it's got no credibility.

 RS> So that tells me it most likely is an urban legend, or something Nader made
 RS> up.

Which you then repeated as if it was true.

 BA>> I suppose the '59 Chevy back end fin could theoretically kill somebody
 BA>> but I'm not aware of any cases.

 RS> There have been cases where pedestrians have been injured, some fatally by
 RS> projections off of cars.
 RS> But this is pretty rare.

Really? Cite some... one... anything.

 RS> Nowadays almost non-existent.

What is almost nonexistent?

Ed

-- 
"Truth does not become more true by virtue of the fact that the
entire world agrees with it, nor less so even if the whole world
disagrees with it." --Jewish philosopher Maimonides (1135-1204)

Blogs: http://edsramblings.wordpress.com | http://woodcaringnsuch.wordpress.com
http://edsscrollsawbits.blogspot.com

Facebook: http://wwwfacebook.com/ed.hulett | Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/yaesu

Linux User #416016
Linux Machine #385030

--- Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.9pre) Gecko/20100217 Light