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TexasTowelie

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Fri Sep 4, 2015, 03:24 AM Sep 2015

No-spin zone: Freeway stunts a bad idea (trucks doing doughnuts on I-25)

MONTGOMERY -- I really, really don’t like the idea of knuckleheads blocking freeway traffic so they can spin doughnuts with their silly old pickup trucks.

Besides the inherent danger, it’s just wrong on so many levels.

But don’t just take my word for it. You just know there are many good reasons for feeling the same way. And Bernalillo County Sheriff Manny Gonzales was kind enough to spend a few moments this week articulating some of them.

I certainly wasn’t impressed by the video recordings from Aug. 23 showing what looked like at least a dozen pickup trucks whose drivers first blocked all the lanes of traffic on Interstate 25 near Montgomery and then took turns spinning out on the freeway surface.

Read more: http://www.abqjournal.com/639113/news/nospin-zone-freeway-stunts-a-bad-idea.html

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No-spin zone: Freeway stunts a bad idea (trucks doing doughnuts on I-25) (Original Post) TexasTowelie Sep 2015 OP
Yee-Hah! nt longship Sep 2015 #1
I believe the drivers were overcome with jomin41 Sep 2015 #2
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