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- From: serafin@epcot.spdc.ti.com (Mike Serafin)
- Subject: Re: Saturday night COPS on FOX
- Message-ID: <1992Nov16.222235.22951@spdc.ti.com>
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- References: <RTARAZ.92Nov14211852@bigwpi.WPI.EDU> <1434@emoryu1.cc.emory.edu>
- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 22:22:35 GMT
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- In article <1434@emoryu1.cc.emory.edu> labrg@emory.edu (Ryan Montieth Gill) writes:
- >rtaraz@bigwpi.WPI.EDU (Ramin Taraz) writes:
- >: I was just watching cops on fox and they had a report on an accident
- >:
- >: I might want to stop riding my bike. I have always though about the
- >: possibility of getting into an accident and losing some body parts,
- >: but it is different when you see it happen!
- >:
- >: anyway, I just thought you might be interested in hearing about this.
- >: I was shaken up a little.
- >:
- > Anybody out there ever know anyone to die in an auto accident?
- >Did you ever consider abondoning the automobile as a transportation
- >source? Just a thought....
- >
-
- This type of knee-jerk reaction has always puzzled me about any other mode of
- transportation than cars. My theory is that car accidents have become so
- commonplace that people have become desensitized to them. Things such as
- aircraft and motorcycle accidents tend to be sensationalized a bit more in the
- press. Around Dallas, everytime a plane even thinks about crashing it makes
- news. Motorcycle accidents tend to make news frequently, and always with a
- byline that somehow leads the viewer/reader believe the motorcyclist was
- somehow at fault even though he/she may not have been. Unless the car accident
- killed 15 people and tied up traffic for 3 days it usually doesn't make the
- news.
-