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Old 10-16-2008, 12:13 AM   #7
Sarris
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Join Date: May 2007
Location: New Port Richey, Florida USA
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Re: My First Scary Moment

In the past, I've been known to get off the bike at a red light, walk back and tell the cager behind me that if wanted to ride my ass, I'd loan him a saddle. Florida passed a gun law a few years back allowing legal gun owners to use deadly force if they feel threatened anywhere. The old law only allowed the use of deadly force in protection of you or your family within your home (IE, you had to drag the body into your house to make the shooting legal), so I don't walk up to vehicles anymore as the driver could be armed.

Since I finally have no points on my license, I generally don't speed and ride at about 5 mph or less over the speed limit. A lot of cages like to drive considerably faster than that, so I just pull over and wave them by. I don't let them piss me off or ruin my ride. Anything else is normally a lose, lose for the biker.

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