Show FLIVVER BOOB IS SERIOUS MENACE automobile expert points out fool tricks wh which ch endanger lives of motorists by erwin erwan greer president greer col leg lc so of Auto automotive engineering the next vine time one ot of those fools fool who break their necks looking one way while they drive another nearly runs you down don turn around and yell after him I 1 that is IB the name by which he be Is to be known according to the american automobile association why supposedly tane iane men will drive a at t top speed Is an unsolvable mystery yet the speed artist Is only one type of another type la Is the mud ue ile Is the fellow who iio dashes up to a mud puddle near the curb and sends mud and water all over you ue ile likes to hear you cuss and the women scream explosion hound another then there is the muffler explosion hound bound you know him the fellow with some powerful bus who rushes down vie the street making explosions in I 1 his muffler if you are 0 opposite when be goes by you nearly throw a fit from fright much to the high glee of himself f and to the disgust and contempt and antagonism ol of everyone else the graze you binks special delight Is to come as close to your carefully groomed car as he possibly can without actually striking it often lie he mis calculates and the result Is that your machine immediately resembles lits his 1 I with dented mud guards and broken hub caps if you try and collect damages you find that lie he owes money on his car and that jou are out of luck the brake burner Is another one of the clan he ha also has a murderous com complex plex lie ile comes on at a sizzling speed and then clap on goes lila his brakes like vie the seizure of a fit ilia 1119 tires kirea scrape with loud remonstrance on the pavement his car tenses and groans the brakes shriek all expecting the sudden crash and then through the flue and lofty purpose of the car bul builder lder things somehow hold together and an accident that time Is averted this method of action g pets ets to be a habit babit and eventually a colter pin pulls out and then usually saved usually A relative of his Is vie the fear fear fanatic who emerges suddenly from a side street yes ei een en upon our boulevards approaching cars dodge and swing from his path tra triina ing to prevent accidents the hearts of passengers leap to their throats frightened crip grips are clamped on the nearest supports screams break from the ladles and usually by astral influence that guards the fate of fools he Is saved usually he Is saved usually by tile the grace of the great body of honorable motorists he be Is saved usually the safety zone fox Is another one lle lie comes sailing down the street to vie the left of a long line of automobiles waiting to cross a street intersection bad and tries to break into the line at the safety zone it lie he cant get in he blocks the street cars because he be Is out on the tracks and there Is always nys some motorist that has to let him into the line so that traffic frallic can move again and then comes the flivver boob who ulio tries to boat beat the locomotive over the crossing ile he Is too well knonk to take up in detail deball A total of was p paid aid out in death claims by american insurance companies for the and their victims killed on the hl highways h last year in addition to the fatalities there were wem nonfatal injuries which makes us wonder why Is a flivver boob 7 |