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Old Apr 26, 2006 | 06:19 PM
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Sugar Land Incident

I talked to one of my friends who was a closer friend to Arnold and found out that the article was wrong. His girlfriend was in a car behind them and witnessed the whole incident. She says that the Mini and Arnold were both trying to merge into the same lane, but then Arnold jerked away to avoid a collision. Anyways, I guess people make assumptions when people "have a loud exhaust."
 
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Old Apr 26, 2006 | 08:47 PM
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i jerk away from collisions on occasion but you don't see articles of me
falling off the street and colliding with other cars or poles or ducks.
 
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Old Apr 26, 2006 | 08:48 PM
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i jerk away from collisions on occasion but you don't see articles of me
falling off the street and colliding with other cars or poles or ducks.
"Should've got a Mini?"
 
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Old Apr 26, 2006 | 08:55 PM
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Originally Posted by MINIotaple
She says that the Mini and Arnold were both trying to merge into the same lane, but then Arnold jerked away to avoid a collision. Anyways, I guess people make assumptions when people "have a loud exhaust."
From the last thread on this (post #40):
Originally Posted by Motor On
could have just been two people with loud exaushts pacing each other on the highway making noise form being 1 -3 gears where they usually cruise, that would have looked like racing that the witnesses reported
Too bad this had to happen in the way that it did, still a sad story and more reasons to tighten the nut behind the wheel.
 
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Old Apr 26, 2006 | 09:06 PM
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Originally Posted by MINIotaple
...Anyways, I guess people make assumptions when people "have a loud exhaust."
Prolly a good reason to have noisy aftermarket laws. You can get away with more stuff with a quite exhaust.
 
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