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Old 11-26-2010, 05:29 AM
 
Location: West Michigan
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As for driving on this kind of stuff, I've never really learned how. I'm that dude in the 2wd truck with no weight doing 25 in the right lane.
You could be much worse. You could be that Idiot in the 4X4 pick-up with no weight doing 75 in the left lane and thinking he is invincible.
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Old 11-26-2010, 06:50 AM
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Location: Phoenix,AZ
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You could be much worse. You could be that Idiot in the 4X4 pick-up with no weight doing 75 in the left lane and thinking he is invincible.
All too common, my friend.

Then ya see 'em a couple of miles ahead, stuck in the median......waving frantically.

Wearing sweatpants and bedroom slippers.
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Old 11-26-2010, 07:27 AM
 
Location: Grand Rapids Metro
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That car pinball scene was from Colorado. Notice all the cars had Colorado plates. Back when I was in high school, I lived at an often busy intersection in central Macomb County. There was black ice (one of the roads is privately owned and had not been salted) and I sat up at my bedroom window and watched probably five different rear end collisions over the course of the morning. As for driving on this kind of stuff, I've never really learned how. I'm that dude in the 2wd truck with no weight doing 25 in the right lane.
How can you see the license plates?
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Old 11-26-2010, 07:35 AM
 
Location: Loving life in Gaylord!
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How can you see the license plates?
lol...dude has the best eyes in the history of the world!
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Old 11-26-2010, 07:41 AM
 
Location: Grand Rapids Metro
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lol...dude has the best eyes in the history of the world!
Ohh, I think he means in the very first video posted. The one I posted is by King5, a news station out of Seattle.
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Old 11-26-2010, 08:23 AM
 
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Ohh, I think he means in the very first video posted. The one I posted is by King5, a news station out of Seattle.
It looks like silhouttes of the mountains on the plates.
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Old 11-26-2010, 01:59 PM
 
Location: Motown
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It's -40 windchill and the snow is waist-deep in SW Montana. Just sayin' ...
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Old 11-26-2010, 02:31 PM
 
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Here's a better one, from Seattle:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FeOaNYRdM88
There are a few screwballs who think they can drive up Queen Anne Hill in the ice and snow. MI doesn't have hills like this.
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Old 11-26-2010, 03:23 PM
 
Location: Boyne Country
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There are a few screwballs who think they can drive up Queen Anne Hill in the ice and snow. MI doesn't have hills like this.
At least not in most of central and southern lower Michigan. We may not have hills that big but we certainly have some that are quite steep.
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Old 11-26-2010, 03:42 PM
 
Location: north of Windsor, ON
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lol...dude has the best eyes in the history of the world!
And I watched it on a 10.6" netbook!

FULL DISCLOSURE: I collect license plates. Also, there were too many foreign cars. I'm pretty sure one of the victims was wearing a Colorado Buffaloes hat.
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