Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!bellcore!decvax!ucbvax!ucbcad!nike!lll-crg!seismo!umcp-cs!eneevax!hsu From: hsu@eneevax.UUCP (Dave Hsu) Newsgroups: net.cycle,net.politics,net.auto Subject: Re: Seat belts, Helmets and Freedom of Choice Message-ID: <87@eneevax.UUCP> Date: Sat, 9-Aug-86 15:44:12 EDT Article-I.D.: eneevax.87 Posted: Sat Aug 9 15:44:12 1986 Date-Received: Mon, 11-Aug-86 04:25:37 EDT References: <472@water.UUCP> <148@gouldsd.UUCP> <196@shuksan.UUCP> Reply-To: hsu@eneevax.UUCP (Dave Hsu) Organization: Imperial Widget Research Center, Kingdom of Maryland Lines: 37 Xref: watmath net.cycle:1925 net.politics:18129 net.auto:12182 In article <196@shuksan.UUCP> root@shuksan.UUCP (Operator ) writes: >> I wish you guys could see my buddy Fred's helmet >> after he slid face-first on the Washington beltway... >> -- >I second that .... several years ago, my wife was riding her >little honda 350 with a helmet and a crash bar on the bike. A >... The side of her helmet looked like I had >used a power sander on it (she said it felt like someone used a hammer >on her head). Total injuries were a skinned ankle and a bruised >colar bone -- she did not even have a head ache! (the kirkland police > > Mikey (yes "he likes it!") The most convincing argument I ever saw for the use of helmets involved my 10th grade bio teacher. An epileptic, he gave up driving for fear of killing someone else when he was 19 and took up bicycle riding instead. Naturally, he never rode anywhere without his Bell Biker. Well, he stopped showing up to class one day. It seems he had been riding along at about 35 mph when he had a seizure, bounced off a telephone pole and off the street. Fortunately, he did not get hit by a car (I think he glanced off one) but the helmet was totalled. The lexan shell split into three separate pieces and the styrofoam was almost completely worn through where it had been crushed. He was in a coma for a while, and recovered after about 10 months. Try to repeat that without a helmet. -dave -- David Hsu (301) 454-1433 || -8798 || -8715 "I know no-thing!" -eneevax Communications & Signal Processing Laboratory / EE Systems Staff Systems Research Center, Bldg 093 / Engineering Computer Facility The University of Maryland -~- College Park, MD 20742 ARPA: hsu@eneevax.umd.edu UUCP: [seismo,allegra,rlgvax]!umcp-cs!eneevax!hsu "Evil...pure and simple!"