On Sun, 29 Nov 2009 15:53:20 -0800, "Bill Noble"
wrote:



"Jim Chandler" wrote in message
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On Wed, 25 Nov 2009 15:41:21 -0800 (PST), TwoGuns
wrote:

Watching the CBS evening news this evening I have to wonder is every
one in the TV Broadcast business a CLUELESS ****ING IDIOT?

Four people died in an accident in a Toyota. The 911 call was played
on air. Evidently the throttle pedal had gotten caught under a floor
mat and the 911 caller was applying brakes but could not stop. The
Toyota with four people crashed at an intersection killing the
occupants. The 911 call lasted for several seconds and the dispatcher
did not tell the driver to put the car in NEUTRAL.

PUT THE ****ING TRANNY IN NEUTRAL and then apply brakes. Is that too
hard to comprehend? CBS should be sued for not telling their audience
the proper way to react to a situation like this.

DL


How about just turning the key off? That would kill the engine and
the problem would go away. You are correct in your assessment that
everyone in the broadcast business is a clueless idiot. They can't be
bothered to research the subject.

Jim

and, mr Jim, perhaps you haven't been reading anything at all about this?
How else could you make the above post - Many journalists DID research the
subject, the links have been posted here, did you not see them?


My post regarding the "journalists" was a general one. How many times
have you seen/heard/read some so-called "journalist" make a statement
on a subject with which you were intimately familiar and noticed that
they didn't know WTF they were talking about? More often than not, I
suspect. The proper course of action here would have been to turn off
the engine, by whatever means necessary for that particular vehicle
and wrestle it to the side of the road. Unfortunately, most drivers
on the road today don't have the mental presence to accomplish this.
Their first reaction is to stomp the brakes and nothing else. The
problem is exacerbated by the fact that drivers today are not taught
to drive. If they have any training at all, it's to turn on the
ignition, put it in gear (automatic) and point it where you want to
go. Since Driver's Ed is no longer taught they haven't the foggiest
about what to do in an emergency. Even in Driver's Ed, they didn't go
into much detail or depth on emergencies. I've had my share (and then
some) of mechanical vehicular failures and have managed to survive
without so much as a scratch on the vehicle. The worst one was a
total brake failure on a 28' "bread" truck that I was driving. I had
just come over the top of a freeway crossing and pushed on the brake
to slow for the approaching lights. The pedal went to the floor and
the truck continued to build speed downhill. My action was to grab
the emergency brake, slam it into first gear and lay on the horn, all
while steering the beast to the side of the road to scrub off speed on
the curb. Turns out that, somehow, the puchrod for the master
cylinder had popped out and therefore there were no brakes. How many
drivers today do you think would have had the presence of mind to do
that? Not many I'd suspect. Fortunately, I've had several years of
emergency vehicle (police car) driving, and dirt track racing
experience to fall back on. A thorough understanding of how my
vehicles work also helps. Too bad that there isn't a requirement for
SOME kind of training prior to obtaining a driver's license. Hell,
most of them today can't even change a tire.

Jim