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From: Joe.Chamberlain@f140.n150.z1.fidonet.org (Joe Chamberlain)
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Subject: Re: wheelchair survey....
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Date: 15 Apr 91 15:12:23 GMT
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[This is from the Spinal Injury Conference]

  JC> Well, in that case: /

  SF-> and you proceeded to list parts failures.
                                ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

        Those accidents I listed were not the result of parts
failure.  Rather, they resulted from operator error or the
related disability.

        For example, AB flipped his chair and became a quad
because was was doing wheelies.  We all know the risk involved
with this trick.

        I once saw a friend, a para, pop a whelie onto an
escalator and ride it to the to in that position.  He endangered
himself and the able bodied shoppers as well.

        I was drunk when I hit the edge of the ramp and landed in
the palm tree in the lobby.

        The parts that failed were located between the ears.
Just because we are paras and quads doesn't make us any smarter.
In fact, the risk taking aspects of our lives usually say
otherwise.

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"Software suppliers are trying to make their software packages more
'user-friendly'...  Their best approach, so far has been to take all
the old brochures, and stamp the words 'user-friendly' on the cover."
    BILL GATES

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