Thread: How do you handle EXTREME tailgaters?
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Old 07-25-2011, 07:12 PM   #374 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Old Mechanic View Post
The unknown is how far will the idiot tailgater go to satisfy his rage at your "failure" to do what he thinks you should. This is the unknown factor. Maybe in Europe people just aren't as crazy as they can be in the US.
In Britian it is illegal to carry a firearm. And by googling per capita crime rate by country I found this tidbit.

# 6 United Kingdom:85.5517 per 1,000 people


# 8 United States:80.0645 per 1,000 people



What about Mexico, where everyone has a gun?

# 39 Mexico:12.8406 per 1,000 people
Looks like the no gun policy helps out a lot.....
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I think you missed the point I was trying to make, which is that it's not rational to do either speed or fuel economy mods for economic reasons. You do it as a form of recreation, for the fun and for the challenge.
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