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- From: jeq@i88.isc.com (Jonathan E. Quist)
- Subject: Re: Saturday night COPS on FOX
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.202637.13183@i88.isc.com>
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- Organization: INTERACTIVE Systems Corporation, Naperville, IL
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- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 20:26:37 GMT
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- In article <BxvIpt.Gnw@tridom.com> alanf@eng.tridom.com (Alan Fleming) writes:
- >In article <9707@vtserf.cc.vt.edu>, ranck@joesbar.cc.vt.edu (Wm. L. Ranck) writes:
- >>
- >> At least my mother claims to have known people personally that lost legs
- >> in motorcycle accidents. Of course the fact that those accidents occured
- >> in the 1930s and probably involved open case primaries isn't relevant to her.
- >>
- >*I* know someone that lost a leg on a bike. A car pulled out of a side street
- >(the exit of a Hospital) and rammed his early 80s model VF-750 Interceptor
- >on the right side. He was carried straight into the emergency room, but
-
- Well, _I_ know someone who lost a leg as the result of an auto accident.
- Seems she was crossing the road, age 12, when some drunk in a Model A
- ran her down. Bonesetting and general surgical techniques were somewhat
- less sophisticated then, though it's not clear things would have been different
- today. Oh, the accident happened sometime in the 1930's. She lost
- her leg sometime in the 1970's, because of the earlier accident. Every
- 3 years or so she has minor back surgery to desensitize a nerve that
- gets unbearable painful. I daresay if Lucille had an inclination to learn
- to ride, she'd do it, though she'd be more likely to get a bike with a sidecar,
- so she'd have a place to carry her wheelchair. She certainly won't let
- anyone tell her she can't do anything...
-
- It's all the same old thing. You can die a horrible, painful death walking
- down the street, or riding a motorcycle, or any of a thousand other things.
- --
- Jonathan E. Quist INTERACTIVE Systems Corporation
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