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  1. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/cornwall/3649412.stm

    "A cyclist from Cornwall has received head injuries in a freak
    accident when he was hit by an advertising sign.

    "The accident happened at Newquay. Police believe the sign had been
    blown from its fixings by the high winds.

    "The 30-year-old man was cycling along Narrowclife in the town when
    the advertising sign fell on his head.

    "He tumbled from his bike and was taken to the Royal Cornwall Hospital
    at Treliske for treatment. His condition is described as stable."

    No mention of the H word!

    Guy
    --
    May contain traces of irony. Contents liable to settle after posting.
    http://www.chapmancentral.co.uk

    88% of helmet statistics are made up, 65% of them at Washington University

  2. "Just zis Guy, you know?" <[email hidden]>typed

    Quoted message said:

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/cornwall/3649412.stm

    Quoted message said:

    "A cyclist from Cornwall has received head injuries in a freak
    accident when he was hit by an advertising sign.

    Quoted message said:

    "The accident happened at Newquay. Police believe the sign had been
    blown from its fixings by the high winds.

    Quoted message said:

    "The 30-year-old man was cycling along Narrowclife in the town when
    the advertising sign fell on his head.

    Quoted message said:

    "He tumbled from his bike and was taken to the Royal Cornwall Hospital
    at Treliske for treatment. His condition is described as stable."

    Quoted message said:

    No mention of the H word!

    My sister suffered a head injury in similar circumstances before those H
    things were commonplace. She was cycling through Cambridge, when a
    builder dropped a scaffolding pole...

    --
    Helen D. Vecht: [email hidden]
    Edgware.

  3. Just zis Guy said:

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/cornwall/3649412.stm

    "A cyclist from Cornwall has received head injuries in a freak
    accident when he was hit by an advertising sign.

    "The accident happened at Newquay. Police believe the sign had been
    blown from its fixings by the high winds.

    "The 30-year-old man was cycling along Narrowclife in the town when
    the advertising sign fell on his head.

    "He tumbled from his bike and was taken to the Royal Cornwall Hospital
    at Treliske for treatment. His condition is described as stable."

    No mention of the H word!

    Guy

    You can bet next time the H word comes round this "single statistic"
    will be bought out to play ;-)

    Tony

  4. Just zis Guy said:

    No mention of the H word!

    I know someone who was severely injured in a similar incident when a
    shop sign fell on his head as he was walking past. I don't recall any
    mention of the H word in local press coverage of that incident either.

    d.

  5. Just zis Guy said:

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/cornwall/3649412.stm

    "A cyclist from Cornwall has received head injuries in a freak
    accident when he was hit by an advertising sign.

    "The accident happened at Newquay. Police believe the sign had been
    blown from its fixings by the high winds.

    "The 30-year-old man was cycling along Narrowclife in the town when
    the advertising sign fell on his head.

    "He tumbled from his bike and was taken to the Royal Cornwall Hospital
    at Treliske for treatment. His condition is described as stable."

    No mention of the H word!

    Guy

    Maybe it wasn't a hospital sign?

  6. Tony Raven said:

    You can bet next time the H word comes round this "single statistic"
    will be bought out to play ;-)

    I just bet it will :-)

    Guy
    --
    May contain traces of irony. Contents liable to settle after posting.
    http://www.chapmancentral.co.uk

    88% of helmet statistics are made up, 65% of them at Washington
    University

  7. davek said:

    I know someone who was severely injured in a similar incident when a
    shop sign fell on his head as he was walking past. I don't recall any
    mention of the H word in local press coverage of that incident either.

    Didn't that happen to Gordon Kaye the noted thespian?

    Guy
    --
    May contain traces of irony. Contents liable to settle after posting.
    http://www.chapmancentral.co.uk

    88% of helmet statistics are made up, 65% of them at Washington
    University

  8. quote='Just zis Guy said:

    I know someone who was severely injured in a similar incident when a
    shop sign fell on his head as he was walking past. I don't recall any
    mention of the H word in local press coverage of that incident either.

    Didn't that happen to Gordon Kaye the noted thespian?

    Guy
    --
    May contain traces of irony. Contents liable to settle after posting.
    http://www.chapmancentral.co.uk

    88% of helmet statistics are made up, 65% of them at Washington
    University[/QUOTE]

    Off topic but do you remember the Hurricane in the 80's. Sister in E Grinstead had a no entry sign hit the side of her car horizontally by her head. Got stuck in the door pillar. She went back indoors very shocked!
    Sniper8052

  9. Sniper8052 said:

    Off topic but do you remember the Hurricane in the 80's. Sister in E Grinstead had a no entry sign hit the side of her car horizontally by her head. Got stuck in the door pillar. She went back indoors very shocked!
    Sniper8052

    Just occured to me shall we sue for all these loose signs?
    🙂

  10. On Mon, 13 Sep 2004 20:23:18 +1000, Sniper8052
    <[email hidden]> wrote in message
    <[email hidden]>:

    Quoted message said:

    Off topic but do you remember the Hurricane in the 80's. Sister in E
    Grinstead had a no entry sign hit the side of her car horizontally by
    her head

    Yes. At one point I was somewhat alarmed to find the roof of the new
    Southsea leisure centre bowling along the road towards me...

    Guy
    --
    May contain traces of irony. Contents liable to settle after posting.
    http://www.chapmancentral.co.uk

    88% of helmet statistics are made up, 65% of them at Washington University

  11. Just zis Guy, you know? popped their head over the parapet saw what was
    going on and said

    Quoted message said:

    Didn't that happen to Gordon Kaye the noted thespian?

    <schoolboy mode>
    Look, someone's sexaulity doesn't affect their bike riding.
    </schoolboy mode>

    IGMC

    --
    yours S

    Nihil curo de ista tua stulta superstitione

  12. On Mon, 13 Sep 2004 18:51:08 GMT, "soup"
    <[email hidden]> wrote in message
    <[email hidden]>:

    Quoted message said:
    Quoted message said:

    Didn't that happen to Gordon Kaye the noted thespian?

    Quoted message said:

    <schoolboy mode>
    Look, someone's sexaulity doesn't affect their bike riding.
    </schoolboy mode>

    Eh?

    Guy
    --
    May contain traces of irony. Contents liable to settle after posting.
    http://www.chapmancentral.co.uk

    88% of helmet statistics are made up, 65% of them at Washington University

  13. Just zis Guy, you know? popped their head over the parapet saw what was
    going on and said

    Quoted message said:

    On Mon, 13 Sep 2004 18:51:08 GMT, "soup"
    <[email hidden]> wrote in message
    <[email hidden]>:

    Quoted message said:
    Quoted message said:

    Didn't that happen to Gordon Kaye the noted thespian?

    Quoted message said:

    <schoolboy mode>
    Look, someone's sexaulity doesn't affect their bike riding.
    </schoolboy mode>

    Eh?

    Guy

    Thespian sounds a bit like Lesbian,
    very poor attempt at a joke.

    --
    yours S

    Nihil curo de ista tua stulta superstitione

  14. soup said:

    Thespian sounds a bit like Lesbian,
    very poor attempt at a joke.

    Ah. He being a bloke that never even ocurred to me...

    Guy
    --
    May contain traces of irony. Contents liable to settle after posting.
    http://www.chapmancentral.co.uk

    88% of helmet statistics are made up, 65% of them at Washington
    University

  15. Just zis Guy said:

    Didn't that happen to Gordon Kaye the noted thespian?

    I suspect this kind of incident has happened to more than two people,
    and some of them might even be reasonably famous. I couldn't tell you
    about Gordon Kaye.

    d.

  16. "davek" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
    news:[email hidden]...

    Quoted message said:
    Just zis Guy said:

    Didn't that happen to Gordon Kaye the noted thespian?

    I suspect this kind of incident has happened to more than two people,
    and some of them might even be reasonably famous. I couldn't tell you
    about Gordon Kaye.

    Gordon was injured by a wooden plank from an advertising hoarding blown
    across the path of his vehicle.

    --
    MatSav

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