On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 11:16 AM, cclabaw@juno.com <cclabaw@juno.com> wrote:
I was told at the time that it was a DoT mandate to protect pedestrians
(ankles?).
No, it was most likely becasue of the Hollywood "starlet" who was driving
her car with a long scarf on that got snagged on the spinner and choked her
to death... The bleeding heart liberals were after spinners for a long time
in order to protect us from ourselves! From there it probably became the
"cash for clunkers" idea...
--
Kent
1960 Bugeye
1967 Sprite - following in the 73's footsteps to the boneyard...
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