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Show FLIVVERBOOB IS SERIOUS MENACE Automobile Expert Points Out Fool Tricks Which Endanger Lives of Motorists. (By Erwln Greer, President Greer College Col-lege of Automotive Engineering.) The next time one of those foola who break their necks looking one way while they drive another nearly runs you down, turn around and yell after him, "FUvverboob !" That is the name by which he is to be known, according ac-cording to the American Automobile association. Why supposedly sane men will drive at top speed is an unsolvable mystery, l'et the speed artist is only one type of nlvverboob. Another type is1 the "mud splasher." He is the fellow who dashes up to a mud-puddle near the curb and sends mud and water all over you. He likes to hear you cuss 8Dd the women scream. "Explosion Hound" Another. Then there is the muffler explosion hound; you know him. The fellow with some powerful bus who rushes down the street making explosions In his muffler. If you are opposite when he goes by you nearly throw a fit from fright, much to the high glee of himself him-self and to the disgust and contempt and antagonism of everyone else. The graze-you gink's special delight is to come as close to your carefully groomed cur as he possibly can without with-out actually striking it. Often he miscalculates mis-calculates and the result Is that your machine immediately resembles his, with dented mud guards and broken hub caps. If you try and collect damages you find that he owes money on his car and that you are out of luck. The brake burner Is another one of the clan; ho also has a murderous complex. He comes on at a sizzling speed and then, clap: on goes his brakes, like the seizure of a fit. HI9 tires scrape with loud remonstrance on the pavement, his car tenses and groans, the brakes shriek all expecting expect-ing the sudden crash and then, through the fine and lofty purpose of the car builder, things somehow hold together and an accident that time Is averted. This method of action gets to be a habit and eventually a cotter-pin cotter-pin pulls out und then Usually Saved Usually. A relative of his Is the fear fanatic who emerges suddenly from a side street (yes, even upon our boulevards).-Approaching boulevards).-Approaching cars dodge and swing from his path, trying to prevent accidents. acci-dents. The hearts of passengers leap to their tli routs, frightened grips are clamped on the nearest supports, screams break from the Indies and usually, by astral Influence that guards the fate of fools, he Ls saved. Usually he ls saved usually. By the grace of the great body of honorable ! motorists, he ls saved usually. The safety zone fox Is another one. lie comes sailing down the street to the left of a long line of automobiles waiting to cross a street Intersection and tries to break Into the lino at the snfety zone. If he can't get in he blocks the street cars because he Is out on the tracks. And there Is always al-ways some motorist that has to let him Into the jlne so that trafllc can move again. And then conies the (livverhooh who tries to beat the locomotive over tba crossing. He Is too well known to take up In detail. A total of JI.MiO.ikio was paid out In death claims by American Insurance companies for the r.'.mK) fllvverboohs (and their victims) killed on the highways high-ways last year. In addition to the fatalities there were l,.Vsj.l0 nonfatal non-fatal Injuries. Which makes us wonder won-der Why Is a fllvverboob? |