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To: Tick Tock
I grew up near Lancaster County PA, where many Amish live. They don't bother anybody. If you are driving along one of the roads where they are driving their buggies, you have to be going at a pretty good clip to get tangled up with one of them. Leave them alone.
3 posted on 06/06/2002 1:39:10 PM PDT by speedy
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To: speedy
Depends on the roads. It's easy to come up behind a buggy without knowing it. For those who don't know, almost all Amish put the triangles on their buggies. Amish don't have bright colors because such things count as adornments, and the triangles hardly count there. There used to be such a thing as "black bumper Mennonites". They were folks of one of the more conservative Mennonite sects who painted their bumpers when chrome was in vogue.

If they don't want to have the triangles, then don't drive on public roads.

5 posted on 06/06/2002 1:44:28 PM PDT by AmishDude
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To: speedy
I grew up near Lancaster County PA, where many Amish live. They don't bother anybody.

Yes, very mellow people. They also live in northern Indiana and northern NY. While I was up there in NY on a fishing trip, driving the back roads, they always smiled and waved as I drove past them, even though I was driving a pickup truck and they didn't know me from anybody. I don't think a horse and buggy needs a red reflective triangle, at least in the daytime. At night, if they are on the roads, that's a different story, for their protection.

65 posted on 06/06/2002 11:26:41 PM PDT by FlyVet
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