Date: Mon, 22 Sep 1997 09:30:52 +0100 From: nik@iii.co.uk To: Wes Peters <softweyr@xmission.com> Cc: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Memory leak in getLawsByStupidity??? Message-ID: <19970922093052.18994@strand.iii.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <199709200245.UAA05234@obie.softweyr.ml.org>; from Wes Peters on Fri, Sep 19, 1997 at 08:45:18PM -0600 References: <5080.874580197@time.cdrom.com> <Pine.GSO.3.96.970919164841.6603A-100000@james.freenet.hamilton.on.ca> <199709192152.PAA21092@rocky.mt.sri.com> <199709200245.UAA05234@obie.softweyr.ml.org>
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On Fri, Sep 19, 1997 at 08:45:18PM -0600, Wes Peters wrote:
> I once got a ticket for driving barefoot in Utah. From a state park
> ranger, no less. What, I ask you, is wrong with driving a car barefoot?
Something to do with a safety reflex (I believe). If your bare sole comes
down on something hard and possibly sharp, your immediate reflex is to lift
your foot away from the object.
If this object is a brake pedal and you're trying to slam on the anchors,
the sudden connection between the sole of your foot and the pedal is likely
to cause you to immediately take your foot off the brakes. This is obviously
a bad thing.
There's a bunch of this stuff at
http://www.urbanlegends.com/legal/driving.barefoot/driving_barefoot.html
The only snag being that Utah was one of the states that didn't reply.
N
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