"Huge" wrote in message
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On 2008-06-20, Arfa Daily wrote:

The pedal operated parking brake, which is found on many american
vehicles,
is intended to be just that - a PARKING brake. Unlike a UK
handbrake lever,
it is not intended to be a supplemental brake to the footbrake. As
others
have said, its operation requires the left leg to be lifted very
high off
the floor, and considerable effort then needs to be applied, to
engage it.

The only way I could have operated the parking brake in the Dodge
Caravan I
drove in the USA once was to have had another joint surgically
inserted into my
left shin. They're an effing stupid idea. That'll be why :Jerkoff:
likes them.


So don't drive the vehicle, you would need another complete leg (never
mind a another joint) to stand on if you found yourself in court after
having caused an accident.