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Show Law for "Road Porkers" Is Consummation to Be W ished IN MOTORING our. the highway or over much-traveled arteries leading out of the city, has it ever been your experience to come up behind a slowly moving procession of machines, seemingly blockaded up ahead somewhere and after idling along at a snail's pace for half a mile or more, come to a big seven-passenger seven-passenger ear or a tiny flivver parked in the middle of the mad, with The perspiring per-spiring owner out repairing or changing a tire Has it ever happened to vou? Of course it lias, and many times. This variety of road hog is common in many localities, lie never thinks of getting off tlie pavement to the side of the road where he will not impede traffic, but chooses the narrowest part of the highway, "squats" down and stays there until he sees fit to move. Jfe heeds neither the traftie demands nor the machines waiting to pass his car, but goes serenely on with his work. There are those, too, who do not.: even use as an excuse the repair of a ear or tire to block traffic, in this manner. There are those who stop to rest by the roadside or to visit some near-by farm- house. j These "road porkers" stop as near the center of the road as possible, with ! possibly ten feet or more at tho side of the road where their ear could stand, ! out of the way of passing machines. Meanwhile traffic in both directions is ! halted or slowed down. It has been suggested that this type of road hog would ', be served right should his ear come to grief some day. " ' j |