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- From: eriks@lin.foa.se (Erik Svensson FOA2)
- Subject: Re: Skiing Safety
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.104428.7876@lin.foa.se>
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- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 10:44:28 GMT
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- >bgohari@wam.umd.edu (Babak Gohari) writes:
-
- >etc., etc., but do many people where helmets? I'm actually thinking of
- >buying at least a bicycle helmet next time I go out and hitting the slopes.
- >It might look stupid, but my experience scared me a little. The head is very
- >important (obviously), and it can easily get messed up.
-
- Around here most of the kids wear helmets. Then, when people start getting into
- their teens it's not cool anymore and they stop.
-
- >I think that the main reason people don't where helmets is because it looks
- >stupid, or un-macho, or whatever you call it. Probably where bicycle helmets
-
- I don't wear a helmet because I find it uncomfortable.(Besides, I wore a helmet
- in the army enough to last me my whole life)
-
- >used to be a few years ago. Personally, I think looking stupid is a lot
- >better than ending up somehow crippled for life. What do you all think?
- >Or is it that I'm just a little worried because this happened to me recently,
- >and I'll probably forget it in a couple of weeks? Later...
-
- Oh, you're right. But how many head injuries happens on the slopes?
-
- cheers
-
- --
-
- Erik Svensson
- Research Officer National Defense Research Establishment (FOA)
- Guided Weapons Division Stockholm, Sweden eriks@fenix.lin.foa.se
-
- "The problem with the future is that it keeps turning into the present"
- -- Hobbes
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