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OldCurlyWolf wrote:

speedsix wrote:...when I first came to Tx, in the 80s, I had a customer who lived in Grand Prairie...had a fine new sportscar...and an old primer-gray 65 Chevy...I asked him why he kept the junker...it was his "Dallas car"...wouldn't take his good car to Dallas to work...between the drivers and the roads...didn't blame him...

In the mid seventies, living around Houston, I kept swearing I was going to buy an old beater pickup and make front and rear bumpers out of a dozer blade and then dare anyone to hit me.

I know a guy back then who put thick steel bumpers on his jeep. He would actually push cars in a parking lot if they parked too close to him.

PappaGun wrote: I have a Miata and it bottoms out easier than I can say "dang it". I once had to go over a rock in the middle of the road and it punched a hole in my oil pan. Driving over anything like a brick is out of the question.

I don't drive a Miata, but my car doesn't have much ground clearance either, so I won't be driving over any bricks unless I see someone coming and there's no other way out. Getting stuck and having a disabled car is an extremely bad situation.

Rego’s description of the men is vague. She believes they were either teens or in their early 20s. She is not able to determine a race.

Probably the thing she remembers best is the big hole of the barrel of a 12 gauge pointed at her.

I agree that she could have been more aware of her surroundings. I am sure that she was tired and just wanted to get home and the bricks threw her for a loop because it was out of the ordinary. This is a good reminder for all of us.