Albuquerque / Danger

[lbriant]

Theres no use shooting the Ugly ones !!! .>)
LOL .....

[Pete]

Sounds as though the tow car was the target, not the coach! I don't think, as bad as this incident was, is any more common than other incidents where destructive kids with nothing to do are causing. I can recall many like incidents seen on TV news that have happened in neighborhoods. Also, it happens to automobiles as well.

I also believe that many incidents of "Road Rage" are caused by drivers of RV's of all types by driving in the wrong lanes, blocking the flow of traffic, driving too slow or fast ect, give all of us a bad image.

I have seen many H3's I would give my right arm for!

[merle&louise]

Good point Pete, the tow car was the target. It's ashame that kids resort to this type of activity.

I know that I have received the single finger salute several times while driving my coach; it can be something as simple as pulling out of an RV park and making a left turn across traffic lanes. People are really impatient. A 45' motorhome + a 17' tow car is around 60' long with the tow bar. It takes time to make the turn.

I guess in this instance, the blame should be put on the kids and not the type of bus. My bad!

[lbriant]

Of coarse I was just joking about the H model, I just saw a chance to have some fun .) ( I thought I would get more Guff )
And kids will be Kids, I never did anything wrong when I was Young
As far as pissing anyone off people are pretty nice to me since I bought a Bus compared to our old 32 ft motorhome ?
They just always seem to give me room and let me over,
And I have my scooter and my jeep behind me thats over 70' probably, and of course on windy roads that pitch left and right with steep grades you will eventually be out of your lane a little or at least using all of it,
But I don't think Kids carry fully auto pellet guns at night looking for bad drivers and they were the ones that could not keep there car in one lane sometimes using the shoulder and the next 2 lanes so Alcohol probably played a part !!
in any case the statistics for that town are scary I just must have been the 17th Guy .)

[Gil_J]

I just drove 13,000 miles, through 26 states and 3 Canadian provinces and can say almost all drivers were courteous. This includes driving through DC, Seattle, Chicago and several other large cities. There was the ice road trucker in Canada that must have a death wish, but that was an exception. If I were to rate the city with the most discourteous drivers the award would go to Dallas/Ft Worth--hands down winner. I'm not meaning to say all in the DFW area are bad drivers, but I can say driving through here allowed me to check my air horns to see if they worked. As it turned out they worked well many times.

[lbriant]

Funny when I drove my first coach I was driving in the slow lane with the sales person about the speed limit on the interstate we had just crossed over a bridge I guess all the air horns I had ever seen was in trucks with a cord you pulled so I didn't know that the little button in the middle of the steering wheel even did anything?
So I reached down on this Liberty Lady and pressed the center of the steering wheel Wow all 4 air horns went off and a small car that had just passed me in the fast lane swerved clear over on the shoulder and back across the other lane Yikes I scared the S*#* out of them and me too, Anyway, That just reminded me of that , Too Funny

[Pete]

Gil, I will have to agree with you on the Dallas traffic. Somehow the drivers there missed the class on allowing someone to enter the freeway from the access road. Also the speed limit signs are totally disregarded. Want to be denied a lane change?....just turn on a turn indicator and watch the gap close at warp speed!
EXCEPT FOR PATRICK AND SHERRY!