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Originally Posted by Jond63
Around here that could have just been two d!ckheads that just wanted to get in the lane ahead of the other. I can't believe how many times I'll come up behind someone going 5mph under the speed limit, and when I go around to pass, sometimes (somehow) we both end up going like 30 over by the time I finally get past! And then once I get past the other guy usually drops back to his 5 under pace. I am definitely not racing, but I have no idea what goes on in these other people's heads. AND, 9x out of 10, if I slow down and slot back in behind they will go back to the 5mph under anyway, just making the situation that much better.
Not saying that's what happened, but I see it and experience it all the time.
I have to add also: if one of these idiots happen to lose control when they are 'racing' me or whatever the hell it is they think they are doing, I most definitely would not stop to see if they were ok. Is that ok?
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Well you certainly get the point I was trying to make!
If somebody crashed during one of the events you described and there was any way that it could have been perceived that I was involved in racing I would stop for sure. Not so much out of concern for the other driver but to be able to present my version of what happened right up front. In this case the statement they were "believed" (thanks @
Foobar I missed that one word before) was already made and since the other dude ran he could not repute it and it implies guilt (which there probably is but where is the evidence).
I know I seem to always dispute such things on here but that is just because I have spent almost 3 decades investigating incidents and learned a long time ago that first appearances, assumptions, perceptions and the whole "well the result was
this so
that had to be the cause" mentality is very rarely correct. Show me some evidence beyond one guy that would have seen then for 5 or 10 seconds saying "well yep sure done did look like racen' to me".
Again (for the guys that are going to say "they were racing" I
suspect they were racing but with the info availableI don't
know it!