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27-01-2006, 09:43 PM | #1 | ||
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Okay, the word 'ИИИИИИИИ', that is t.r.i.a.n.g.l.e is banned or blocked?
Someone with a sense of humour?
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ORDER FORD AUSTRALIA PART NO: AM6U7J19G329AA. This is a European-UN/AS3790B Spec safety-warning triangle used to give advanced warning to approaching traffic of a vehicle breakdown, or crash scene (to prevent secondary). Stow in the boot area. See your Ford dealer for this $35.95 safety item & when you buy a new Ford, please insist on it! See Page 83, part 4.4.1 http://www.transport.wa.gov.au/media...eSafePart4.pdf |
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27-01-2006, 09:53 PM | #2 | ||
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No, some of us find that particular word offensive. eg, me.
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27-01-2006, 09:54 PM | #3 | ||
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Whats a ИИИИИИИИ ?
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27-01-2006, 09:59 PM | #4 | |||
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I take it *you* take offence at a safety warning device sold by Ford and my advocacy of it? If so, it is regrettable this place is so politically correct, in fact thats insulting poltical correctness.
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ORDER FORD AUSTRALIA PART NO: AM6U7J19G329AA. This is a European-UN/AS3790B Spec safety-warning triangle used to give advanced warning to approaching traffic of a vehicle breakdown, or crash scene (to prevent secondary). Stow in the boot area. See your Ford dealer for this $35.95 safety item & when you buy a new Ford, please insist on it! See Page 83, part 4.4.1 http://www.transport.wa.gov.au/media...eSafePart4.pdf |
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27-01-2006, 10:06 PM | #5 | |||
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27-01-2006, 10:09 PM | #6 | |||
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http://www.ford.com.au/range/popup/p...=35&category=5 As an example.
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ORDER FORD AUSTRALIA PART NO: AM6U7J19G329AA. This is a European-UN/AS3790B Spec safety-warning triangle used to give advanced warning to approaching traffic of a vehicle breakdown, or crash scene (to prevent secondary). Stow in the boot area. See your Ford dealer for this $35.95 safety item & when you buy a new Ford, please insist on it! See Page 83, part 4.4.1 http://www.transport.wa.gov.au/media...eSafePart4.pdf |
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27-01-2006, 10:12 PM | #7 | |||
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27-01-2006, 10:17 PM | #8 | |||
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Australia doesn't mandate a warning ИИИИИИИИ for passenger cars like Europe or the African Union (which like Spain demand two). Like I say often enough, our equipment requirements in this sun burnt place are very very second rate, now below that of Africa's third world. They should be 'standard supply', doing so would reduce their retail cost dramatically. As an example, the Mitsubishi Motors unit, with the same UN specifications and made in Finland, cost $20 retail. I've attended enough crashes and vehicle breakdowns particularly in vulnerable on-road traffic positions these last few thousand years to rightly advocate the item. It is to Ford Australia's credit that someone within the AUS HQ had the brains to finally specify a device that will save lives and property. Understand that I make NO $ whatsoever from this in any way shape or form, except those savings that are made in road toll reduction.
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ORDER FORD AUSTRALIA PART NO: AM6U7J19G329AA. This is a European-UN/AS3790B Spec safety-warning triangle used to give advanced warning to approaching traffic of a vehicle breakdown, or crash scene (to prevent secondary). Stow in the boot area. See your Ford dealer for this $35.95 safety item & when you buy a new Ford, please insist on it! See Page 83, part 4.4.1 http://www.transport.wa.gov.au/media...eSafePart4.pdf Last edited by Keepleft; 27-01-2006 at 10:24 PM. |
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27-01-2006, 10:19 PM | #9 | ||
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why is ИИИИИИИИs abusive/banned
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27-01-2006, 10:43 PM | #10 | |||
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27-01-2006, 10:45 PM | #11 | ||
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damn straight its funny.......
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27-01-2006, 10:48 PM | #12 | |||
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But yes, its hilarious!
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27-01-2006, 10:54 PM | #13 | ||
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I think it was banned as a word due to the extreem BOREDOM and constant DRONING ON about them..
Seriously.... absolutly no-one really gives a crap about safety ИИИИИИИИs.. They are about as interesting as ringworms. Personally I think they are a waste of money and I dont see any valid reason to even get one.. Good for breakdowns... what the hell are those big amber blinking lights called hazards for? If you cant see bright *** amber lights blinking on and off you sure as hell wont see a reflective ИИИИИИИИ thats no bigger than a soccer ball! Good for accidents... well, if the acident is so bad that the hazard lights no longer work its a fair bet there is debris and probably body parts spread for a 100 odd meters down the road. Should we just put a ИИИИИИИИ in front of the biggest bit?? Seriously, if you want to get anal and advocate something.. how about a fire extinguisher in the car or a jack that isnt going to drop a car on your foot when you change tyres. How about checking tyre pressures to decrease blowouts or the fact that if its raining a car is not going to have the same dynamics as it does in the wet. Proactive stuff like that will save a lot more money and lives than a bloody tri-banana-angle.
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27-01-2006, 11:03 PM | #14 | |||
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Otherwise your posts are deemed informative..
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27-01-2006, 11:04 PM | #15 | |||
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27-01-2006, 11:04 PM | #16 | ||
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Casper, I've got a problem here. The XB doesn't have hazard lights!
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27-01-2006, 11:07 PM | #17 | |||
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Hey heres a guy that needs a reflective octagonal slanted square
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27-01-2006, 11:08 PM | #18 | |||
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27-01-2006, 11:09 PM | #19 | ||
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my dad has a ИИИИИИИИ.
I wonder if i could make my own. |
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27-01-2006, 11:14 PM | #20 | |||
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27-01-2006, 11:20 PM | #21 | |||
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27-01-2006, 11:22 PM | #22 | ||
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bwahaha!!!!! banana!
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27-01-2006, 11:28 PM | #23 | |||
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27-01-2006, 11:55 PM | #24 | |||
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ORDER FORD AUSTRALIA PART NO: AM6U7J19G329AA. This is a European-UN/AS3790B Spec safety-warning triangle used to give advanced warning to approaching traffic of a vehicle breakdown, or crash scene (to prevent secondary). Stow in the boot area. See your Ford dealer for this $35.95 safety item & when you buy a new Ford, please insist on it! See Page 83, part 4.4.1 http://www.transport.wa.gov.au/media...eSafePart4.pdf Last edited by Keepleft; 28-01-2006 at 12:05 AM. |
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27-01-2006, 11:58 PM | #25 | ||
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Most of use Queenslanders don't get a chance to use a 3-sided device. Going on the roadkill stakes for the last year, we'd be running around, looking for crowbars to get the twisted bootlids open, so we could set up a static warning device.
Then we could go and save our family members from an impending 'hollywood style' ka-boom! |
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28-01-2006, 12:05 AM | #26 | ||
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Do those three sided items come in black? :nutsycuck
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28-01-2006, 12:18 AM | #27 | |||
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Remember though the most obvious thing, the 'last' cars boot of that pileup will not be jammed! This is my NSW experience where folks have offered me theirs to place, or placed it off their own bat having stopped at the scene. AND if we mandated like Africa and Europe the item, then someone else will usually provide it if required.
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ORDER FORD AUSTRALIA PART NO: AM6U7J19G329AA. This is a European-UN/AS3790B Spec safety-warning triangle used to give advanced warning to approaching traffic of a vehicle breakdown, or crash scene (to prevent secondary). Stow in the boot area. See your Ford dealer for this $35.95 safety item & when you buy a new Ford, please insist on it! See Page 83, part 4.4.1 http://www.transport.wa.gov.au/media...eSafePart4.pdf |
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28-01-2006, 12:22 AM | #28 | |||
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Personally i like the idea of Flares....
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28-01-2006, 12:27 AM | #29 | ||
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Casper - nice try!
Keepleft - good response. The thing about the bananas is that they are used AFTER an accident. How did the accident happen? Driver inattention or inability. Cars don't crash. Drivers crash cars. I think Casper's point is it would be better to train people so that less accidents and breakdowns occur - breakdowns are usually caused by poor maintenance. Keepleft's point is that after said accident, you should try to stop the accident getting bigger. So I believe we have a stalemate. In the face of rising road tolls, I would like to know the stats on how many deaths are attributed to "secondary" impacts - ie people slamming into an accident that already happened causing death. I know there was at least one of these over Christmas (though it was fixing a puncture, IIRC), but in the overall scheme of things, I doubt the numbers would be very high, so would the use of bananas really reduce this small number significantly? Probably not. While you're reading - what about pedestrians that are killed. Their deaths are always added to the road toll, as if it is the fault of the car driver. In some circumstances, I have no doubt the driver is at fault, but in others, it would be the pedestrian who is at fault. So maybe all pedestrians should wear/carry bananas so that they are more visible to drivers, which would reduce the incidence of driver-caused pedestrian deaths, but would not do much to help the pedestrian-caused pedestrian deaths. Well, now that I've started, might as well keep going! Instead of insisting that cars carry the bananas, why not do something useful with our tax dollars and have bananas installed in the dividing barriers and armco railings on major (high speed) roads - when an accident happens and the police are called, they simply turn on the bananas on the section of road alerting all drivers of possible danger - a bit like the blue waving flags in motor racing! Just a thought, and it puts the onus back on the government to spend our (petrol tax & rego) money properly, instead of funding politicians retirement plans/superannuation schemes. Sorry for the long post, but payback is a b!tch.
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28-01-2006, 12:31 AM | #30 | |||
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