Fun_People Archive
30 Aug
Hey Truffle! You think YOU'VE had a negative encounter with a

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From: Peter Langston <psl>
Date: Fri, 30 Aug 96 17:25:00 -0700
To: Fun_People
Subject: Hey Truffle!  You think YOU'VE had a negative encounter with a
	driver...

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This item was reported on NPR's "Car Talk":

Cecile Porc drove for eight miles with a cyclist spread-eagled across her
windscreen, refusing to stop because she thought he was a mugger.  Madame
Porc, 83, hit the man at a crossroads near Valence, catapulting him onto
the bonnet where he clung for dear life.  As she accelerated to 70 miles
an hour, she was shouting "Murderer, Murderer" said the victim.  He
hammered on the windscreen and screamed "I'm a cyclist" but she just
turned on the windscreen wipers.  She was eventually stopped by a police
roadblock but remained unrepentant.  "My only regret," she later declared,
"is that I didn't drive into a wall and squash him like a truffle."

© 1996 Peter Langston