[wplug] OT: Risk management (helmet laws)

[O'Connor, Michael P.]

Well Billings some good may yet come of this (boy am I going to get
flamed)  But it is possible that after this drivers of cars might be
aware of bikers.  In the past I have noticed that car drivers are to
busy eating, reading news papers, watching TV what ever to car about who
else is on the road, but today (the day after the accident) was a much
more pleasant ride in, I had no close calls the drivers seemed to have
seen me today, I think it is because they are still thinking about the
accident of yesterday, I just hope this will leave a lasting impression
and not be over in one day.

Michael P. O'Connor
US&S 
Office: 412-688-2491 
Cell: 412-498-0667
mpoconnor at switch.com

-----Original Message-----
From: wplug-bounces+mpoconnor=switch.com at wplug.org
[mailto:wplug-bounces+mpoconnor=switch.com at wplug.org] On Behalf Of
Jonathan S. Billings
Sent: Tuesday, June 13, 2006 8:51 AM
To: General user list
Subject: Re: [wplug] OT: Risk management (helmet laws)

On Tue, 2006-06-13 at 08:37 -0400, Burt E Reany wrote:
>   It turned out that many of the new head injuries that occurred to
troops
> who were wearing these metal helmets would have previously been fatal.
Many
> lives were, indeed, saved - but treating those who were now upgraded
to
> "survivors" cost more.

More evidence that economics rarely justifies safety.  I really doubted
it would.

Now, I wouldn't mind letting natural selection take its role, and "weed"
out the idiots who think they're too cool to wear a helmet.  I just hate
having to wash blood and bone fragments from the grill of my SUV*.  At
least, this spectacular example of selection might actually allow the
idea of safety to sink into the soft foamy brains of the
football-watching, bare-headed biking community.  Ideas are much easier
to wash off the hood than brains.


* NOTE: I don't own a car.

-- 
Jonathan Billings 

The best defense against logic is ignorance.



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