Helmets are compulsory

On Tue, 05 Jul 2005 23:57:37 +0100, Patrick Herring <[email hidden]>

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| Second, getting careless motorists off the roads is politically inexpedient.

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I disagree. It's quite easy to create a monster, the tabloids do it all
the time. And the monster might get /you/ next time. I think "BAD
DRIVERS KILL 10 EVERY DAY", to use your presentational style, is a line
that could easily be effective.

I do not think that would happen, because the evidence suggests that
the bad drivers tend to think they are the elite, and when they start
getting hit by the "get bad drivers off the roads" campaign we will
have the usual self-serving [censored] about why are they being banned,
when all they were doing was exercising their manifestly superior
skills in their manifestly superior car.

I may be being cynical,of course, but I suspect that the ABD will be
out in force as soon as their members start getting banned. As far as
they (and most drivers) are concerned, fatalities are a problem of bad
driving, and bad driving is exhibited only by other drivers. After
all, if what they were doing was dangerous, they'd stop doing it,
wouldn't they?

Guy
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88% of helmet statistics are made up, 65% of them at CHS, Puget Sound

you know? said:

I may be being cynical,of course, but I suspect that the ABD will be out
in force as soon as their members start getting banned. As far as they
(and most drivers) are concerned, fatalities are a problem of bad driving,
and bad driving is exhibited only by other drivers. After all, if what
they were doing was dangerous, they'd stop doing it, wouldn't they?

Cynical? You? Surely not.

--

Buck

I would rather be out on my Catrike

http://www.catrike.co.uk

Jon Senior said:

Buck said:

Convert to shinty and injury is positively encouraged.

Edinburgh Uni shinty team recruit new players by asking the players who
have been sent off from hockey matches. Says it all really.

Jon

Shinty is a totally new game to me. I assume from what I googled that
is is a rougher version of the Irish game of hurling?

I would have thought that full plate armour was de regiour for
something like this. Helmets be damned.

John Kane
Kingston ON Canada
(Where we play hockey on the ice. It reduces the power one can get when
slugging an opponent.)

John_Kane said:

Shinty is a totally new game to me. I assume from what I googled that
is is a rougher version of the Irish game of hurling?

Effectively a regional variation. In Ireland they play hurling, in
the Highlands it's shinty. You don't need to be a jessie to play
either, AFAICT...

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I would have thought that full plate armour was de regiour for
something like this. Helmets be damned.

Giving people armour just means that ultimately it gets used as an
offensive weapon, either directly or indirectly.

Pete.
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