Re: Most significant advance in bike technology for speed?

AMuzi <am@yellowjersey.org> wrote:

On 2/5/2025 9:13 PM, Frank Krygowski wrote:

On 2/4/2025 9:37 AM, AMuzi wrote:

 
Had he followed the rules, he'd be dead.

 
We've been through all this before, of course. And we all
know you, Andrew, are the master at finding links to truly
rare negative events.
 
But (again) if a person were to make their life decisions
based on the assumption that rare events would be happening
to them, they'd be living a weird life indeed.
 
Stay out of houses! People have died in them!
https://www.wtsp.com/article/news/local/pascocounty/man-
hospitalized-serious-condition-car-crash-pasco-
county/67-20eb0233-763f-42de-a617-a5db70dd1c1a
 
 

 
Not all that rare. Stabbings are prevalent on public transit
in large cities.
 
Yesterday for example:
https://nypost.com/2025/02/05/us-news/bloody-outbreak-of-nyc-subway-crime-leaves-at-least-5-hurt-in-stabbings-slashings-and-a-beating-cops/
 
And defensive use of blades is regular (from what I see,
about 1 out of 50 or so).
 
Speaking of rare events, how many of the 400 million
firearms were used in magic spontaneous fatal negligent
discharges in the owner's home? Is it more than the 1 to 3
million defensive use incidents? Curious minds want to know.
 

While American cities do have higher violent crime rates, New York seems to
have about 4 million folks using Transit per day, which though perhaps a
bit low for the size of New York, London is 24 million per day. Does seem a
bit more car centric from what I can gathered.

But either way that’s a lot of people, who one assumes aren’t expecting to
have to deal with crime.

Roger Merriman