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Re: Sermon on Abusing Collector Plates

To: Ben Ruset <bruset@home.com>, mg <mgs@Autox.Team.Net>
Subject: Re: Sermon on Abusing Collector Plates
From: Becky Mahoney <bmahoney@home.com>
Date: Wed, 15 Jul 1998 18:43:09 -0500
Well, you used a few more words that I did, but I think the meaning was
the same!!

Becky

Ben Ruset wrote:
> 
> >Gee, It was too bad he wasn't a Peace Officer and could arrest
> >you for violation of Motor Vehicle Laws.  If you are so 'cheap' as
> >to HAVE to purchase  "collector" plates you do not belong in the
> >hobby [IMHO, of course!!].  I would have loved to have seen (as
> >here in IL a $ 75.00 ticket issued for a $ 24.00 plate that would
> >have normally cost $ 48.00) you have to pay.
> 
> You know, Ed, you're really not worth anything to this list. And I'm beginning
> to think that you're not worth much to the hobby, either. Or the human race.
> 
> While you may own a shop, and have untold decades of MG experience, your only
> advice to the list is to tell someone that they are stupid for doing something
> a certain way, usually the way that you disagree with it.
> 
> With an attitude like that, it's a wonder that people come to you to have work
> done on their cars. Personally, if I had a choice to let my MG go up in flames
> or let you work on it, I'd be toasting marshmallos on it as it burned. Your
> sour attitude and deragitory tone add nothing to this list, excepting to serve
> as a guideline for people not to follow.
> 
> People can and do buy collector plates - more often than not to take advantage
> of special insurance policies than to 'beat the system.' However, in Ed world,
> it must be a crime if one does something that the Grand Master (that would be
> you, Ed) disagrees with.
> 
> Ed, not to mince words, you are the lowest form of person on the Internet --
> someone who's sole purpose in life is to berate other people on a list
> designed
> to share information, and a sense of friendship. If anyone ever went against
> the very grain of this list, if would be you, sir.
> 
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