Our View: Thank you to farmers for

Sunday, November 9, 2008 11:05 PM EST

providing food for us all
I am writing this letter to address all those individuals that find it necessary to try and pass farmers while they are moving their equipment from field to field. The other day I was traveling down the road and got behind a farmer in a combine. A driver came up behind me and began to flash his lights at me and blow his horn. I looked in my rear view mirror and the driver was not only coming around me but also attempting to pass the combine. This driver ended up driving in the field in order to go around the combine. By doing this the driver needlessly put a lot of people's lives in danger. Makes me wonder if these individuals complain about farmers with food in their mouths. The next time that you think to complain about these farmers and their equipment look at your plates and say thank you instead. Without these dedicated men and women we would live in a very different world. To all the farmers out there I say thank you for everything you do.

Lela Burroughs

Aurora

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auburntime wrote on Nov 9, 2008 6:29 PM:

" I do believe that farm equipment have the right away on the roads...so slow down and pass carefully. "

horseradish wrote on Nov 9, 2008 9:42 AM:

" some people have things to do other than sit behind your slow buns. its not hard to pass farm equipment, and really it is necessary. it is more dangerous for everyone to sit behind and wait for miles and miles and have someone who needs to get somewhere start passing a line of traffic then it is for everyone to just pass the combine legally and under control. "

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