America’s Most Dangerous Combat Zone

By Al Vinikour 

Photo courtesy of the NHRAI received a letter the other day from a reader who feels the most life-threatening place to be is the parking lot of a shopping mall where there’s lots of cars, lots of pedestrians and very few brains behind the wheel.

For example, let’s say you’re going into Best Buy to price out that flat-screen television your family has been belly-aching about for the past six months. You manage to finally find a parking place some length away from the store and begin walking. Just for grins, let’s say your six-year-old twins are walking on either side of you while you’re carefully holding their hands. But wait… what’s that sound? Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No… it’s some idiot in a Buick speeding down your aisle, oblivious to any obstacles in his way — including you and your kids. Luckily you avoid contact just in the nick of time.

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