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A real use for helmets

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  1. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/4640949.stm

    'We put our baby into a helmet'

    Looking at William Barker now it is hard to see any blemishes. He is a
    beautiful bouncing baby.

    But just six months ago his face looked strangely misshapen.

    His forehead and cheeks had became more prominent on the right side, his
    right eye looked larger than the left, his ears look misaligned and he
    had a flat spot on the right side of the back of his head, from where he
    had been lying.

    His parents had to make the difficult decision to take action on what
    was largely a cosmetic problem and encase his head in a plastic helmet
    23 hours a day to correct the asymmetry. ......."

    The article contains this sad line though:
    "Some people thought it was a kind of crash helmet for children and said
    where could they get one."

    --
    Tony

    "I did make a mistake once - I thought I'd made a mistake but I hadn't"
    Anon

  2. Yep, plagiocephaly, a scary condition for parents (BTSIDIGTTS) but
    thankfully treatable in most cases (often without the helmet).

    Graeme

  3. I submit that on or about Sun, 18 Sep 2005 09:57:26 +0100, the person
    known to the court as Tony Raven <[email hidden]> made a
    statement (<[email hidden]> in Your Honour's bundle) to
    the following effect:

    Quoted message said:

    "Some people thought it was a kind of crash helmet for children and said
    where could they get one."

    Don't these people have Google? http://www.thudguard.com/

    Guy
    --
    http://www.chapmancentral.co.uk

    "To every complex problem there is a solution which is
    simple, neat and wrong" - HL Mencken

  4. Just zis Guy said:

    Don't these people have Google? http://www.thudguard.com/

    Guy
    --

    From the 'Expert Opinion' part of the said website:

    "... should make a valuable contribution to risk reduction in a similar
    way to cycle helmets..."

    David W. Jenkins
    BA MPhil(Eng) PhD DCA FTSI
    Product Safety Adviser to RoSPA

    Kennedy

  5. I submit that on or about Wed, 21 Sep 2005 08:58:18 +0100, the person
    known to the court as Kennedy Fraser <[email hidden]>
    made a statement (<[email hidden]> in Your Honour's
    bundle) to the following effect:

    Quoted message said:

    "... should make a valuable contribution to risk reduction in a similar
    way to cycle helmets..."

    LOL! At least we can agree on that - though not, I suspect, in the
    sense in which it was intended!

    Guy
    --
    http://www.chapmancentral.co.uk

    "To every complex problem there is a solution which is
    simple, neat and wrong" - HL Mencken

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