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Buffalo Aid Weekend – report for 20-21 Nov 2010 2-Jan-2011 At 12:24:34 PM singersmith

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Probably us. I think I had a pinkish shirt on and him a white helmet.

Car well smashed indeed. How about the guard rail? I was too shocked to even take a picture after yelling across the road with him a bit. It was a bizarre scene.

"The car performed very well." I think he even said something like "quite soft" to describe the impact. Turns out he fell asleep after having already stopped for rest. A good lesson for us all and really great he's unscathed.

As far as weirdness on the roads, don't be afraid to call the Hoon Hotline 1 800 333 000. Or dial 000, ask for the local police and file a dangerous driving report; they're very friendly on the phone. The tail-gating on the Hume highway from Seymour to the city is particularly bad (not to mention the psychotic semi truck drivers on the Western Highway). I can't believe the stuff I see people do. In the States that'd be a great way to get shot by someone a lot crazier than you or to get your face stuffed into the hood of a cop car by the highway patrol, state police, local police, or county sheriff. There's next to zero cop presence on the roads in Oz. It's a good time for this video:
http://www.autoblog.com/2010/10/18/video-sternest-speeding-warning-ever/

Almost certainly in Nevada, probably on the 80.

Geoff's much more familiar with the car's limitations than we are and he likes to drive. He has been through every bend on that road about 62,000 times. He's tame in comparison to my friend Dirk "German Man" Debus who used to race cars and now engineers racing data recording systems. Out of the blue, he put a rental Commodore Executive wagon sideways through the last "Y" bend going up to the Camel's Hump then later spat at the "cheap" tires for having left black streaks across the road. I would have dobbed him into the Hoon Hotline for sure.