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- Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
- Path: sparky!uunet!tcsi.com!sparcplug!markk
- From: markk@tcs.com (Mark Kromer)
- Subject: Re: Saturday night COPS on FOX
- In-Reply-To: serafin@epcot.spdc.ti.com (Mike Serafin)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.033630.5630@tcsi.com>
- Originator: markk@sparcplug
- Sender: markk@tcs.com
- Reply-To: markk@tcs.com (Mark Kromer)
- Organization: Teknekron Communications Inc.
- References: <RTARAZ.92Nov14211852@bigwpi.WPI.EDU> <1434@emoryu1.cc.emory.edu> <1992Nov16.222235.22951@spdc.ti.com>
- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 03:36:30 GMT
- Lines: 28
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- In article <1992Nov16.222235.22951@spdc.ti.com>, serafin@epcot (Mike Serafin) writes:
- >In article <1434@emoryu1.cc.emory.edu> labrg@emory.edu (Ryan Montieth Gill) writes:
- >> 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.
-
- When I get the "You'd have to be suicidal to ride one of those death
- machines" argument from a non-rider, I try to put it into perspective
- for them thus:
-
- "Say on a per mile basis someone is five times (I don't know the actual
- figure and would appreciate it if anyone knows) as likely to be killed
- on a motorcycle than in a car. That means that every 5 miles you
- travel in your car is as risky as one mile on a motorcycle. Now, do
- you even give a second thought to loading your children into a car and
- driving off somewhere? Do you weigh the importance of the trip
- against the threat to your life and the lives of your children?"
-
- "I thought not." (end of argument)
-
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