Yellow Sedan Identified and a Message on Fire Safety
Thank you for the comments and emails regarding the “old yellow sedan”. This was submitted by a reader along:
“I grew up in Los Angeles in a gentler era and left in 1970 at the age of 22. The freeways were a joy to drive; the speed limit was 70 mph and that’s what people did. Using the San Diego and Garden Grove freeways, I commuted from Manhattan Beach to my job at Disneyland in 35 minutes. That might be possible today, but only in the wee hours after midnight. I returned in 1994 to find the rude, aggressive, undisciplined free-for-all you describe in your blog.
The yellow car with no rear lights posted on October 28th is an early 70’s Fiat 124 Sport Coupe. A great little four-seater with a 1.6L engine and lots of fun to drive. I owned a new one for a few years in Germany. Here is a photo (not of mine, however) of what is probably a 1970 model.”
And now for the following submission regarding fire safety:
“Here is a wrong-doing that is near and dear to my heart, considering that I live over a dry hillside canyon and I love my condo and don’t want it to burn down.
There is this woman here in Saugus. She must live off of Oak Ridge and San Fernando road, because that is where I saw her come out from this morning. She drives a sand-colored Saturn Aura and the license plate starts with a ’6′. I saw her a couple of weeks ago waiting to turn left onto Magic Mountain Parkway from Bouquet, and she tossed her lit cigarette butt out of the car window! I took her license plate # down at that time to report her to the CHP (they will send a letter), but never got around to doing it.
This morning (10/22/08)…same woman, same car, different cigarette, SAME STUPID IDIOTIC BEHAVIOR!!! I saw her flick it out of her window, this time at Bouquet Junction while stopped at a red light. This time I made sure I called the local Newhall CHP office and let them know about this moron! I wish I had time to get out of my car and throw it back inside, but the bitch had already rolled up her window. Same method of operation each time.
I am so sick and tired of these idiot smokers, their discards, and the fires that result from their carelessness. I wish the price of a pack of cigarettes would be raised to $20 a pack to help pay for the fires that they start and the mounds of butts in the gutters! Please post this somewhere so that others will know that this careless behavior still exists, even during a RED FLAG day like today!”
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As a former smoker, I’m always aware of signs on the roads that actually prohibit smoking during dangerous stretches of fire country. You may not like the smell of a smoldering cigarette in your car, but privileges come with responsibility. When I was still a smoker, I’d deal with the smell of an extinguished cigrette given that the alternative was possibly arson or a more serious charge. Anyway, it’s illegal to throw anything out of your car in California other than water and feathers. (Yes, feathers.)
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I bet if you wrote a letter or called the Los Angeles County Fire Dept. and told them what you saw this woman do they would be interested.
So far, the local CHP office is very interested.
They send the registered owner of the car a letter and I am sure they keep these on file.
I wish that there was more that I (as a plain citizen) could do to really drive home the message!
You started a paper trail on said person. It does more than you think!
I’ve actually (at times) had time to get out of my car and pick up the lit butt and I have thown it back into their car and said, “oops, I believe you dropped this!”. The look on their face is PRICELESS. Not to mention the URGENCY of finding the smouldering butt before it ruins their upholstery!
I was at the post office one day and a woman got out of her car, took the last puff, and threw her cigarette on the ground. I walked over, picked it up and threw it inside her car (the windows were down) and I walked away laughing! I didn’t stay around for those fireworks, but explain THAT to your insurance company, you inconsiderate Bitch smoker!
I get a non-smokers discount from State Farm, so I hope they start adding surcharges to policies for those that do smoke. I hate to be a wet rag on most smokers, but most of ‘em don’t give a hoo ha about anybody else, but themselves!
hi everybody here!
I am going to get a new car. Wish to have a luxury one, but don’t know for sure what to choose… Can smb advise me smth?