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- From: drew@hazelrah.cs.colorado.edu (Drew Eckhardt)
- Subject: Re: Helmets (again): Skiing Safety
- Message-ID: <1993Jan28.004209.20800@colorado.edu>
- Sender: news@colorado.edu (The Daily Planet)
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- Organization: University of Colorado at Boulder
- References: <C1H2Ko.GuC@srgenprp.sr.hp.com> <1k6pgoINNb2@sixgun.East.Sun.COM> <1993Jan27.214701.89@sequent.com>
- Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 00:42:09 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan27.214701.89@sequent.com> patch@sequent.com (Pat Chewning) writes:
- >mikeg@olympus.East.Sun.COM writes:
- >>When you change lanes do you look before merging over.
- >>
- >>Same principle when skiing.
- >
- >Some principles are NOT the same when skiing as they are with driving.
- >
- >Example : Changing lanes
- > Skiing: No need to look uphill (back) before changing direction.
- > It is up to the people behind you (uphill) to avoid you regardless
- > of how much you change speed or direction.
- > Driving: you better look behind before changing direction.
- >
-
- Technically, the downhill skier has right of way. That fact might
- help you win a lawsuit after you get plowed over by an out of controller
- skier, but it won't get you out of the hospital any sooner.
-
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