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Ooo that's scary!
Reminds me of the story I once read in "Car and Driver" about the fellow who bought a Volvo 244 in bright orange, so that he could be nice and safe, and highly visible.
Very soon after he took his nice new car home, he was waiting stationary at a stoplight, when a large Chevrolet Caprice Wagon slammed into the back of him, ramming him into the stream of traffic, and writing off the car totally.
After he was extracted from the wreck, he sought out the driver of the Chevy. "What," he demanded to know, "was she playing at?"
"I'm sorry, honey - I just plain never saw you."
"How can you not notice a dayglo orange Volvo at a red stoplight?"
"Oh, it happens - I was filling in the crossword."
If "Car and Driver" magazine is to be believed, that's a true story.
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