Re: Helmet efficacy test

On Mon, 21 Apr 2025 16:26:42 -0500, AMuzi <am@yellowjersey.org> wrote:

On 4/21/2025 1:13 PM, Catrike Ryder wrote:

On Mon, 21 Apr 2025 13:43:21 -0400, Frank Krygowski
<frkrygow@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
 

On 4/21/2025 1:26 PM, AMuzi wrote:

On 4/21/2025 12:22 PM, Catrike Ryder wrote:

On Mon, 21 Apr 2025 11:01:48 -0400, Frank Krygowski
<frkrygow@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
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On 4/21/2025 7:44 AM, Catrike Ryder wrote:

...I, a tourist, had
to explain to taxi drivers that I wanted to go where there were no
tourists. Unfortunately, that resulted in some late night walks back
to the boat. I would not do that again in today's world.

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SO much fear!

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Really? So, at your age, you'd be perfectly happy to walk, alone at
night, through unfamiliar neighborhoods in a foreign country?
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If you answer "yes," you're either a liar or a moron.

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+1
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https://www.azfamily.com/2025/04/19/man-rips-victims-eye-out-random-
attack-east-phoenix/

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That's a typical response from you, Andrew. You found _one_ scary story,
out of how many peaceful, unremarkable nighttime walks every day around
the world? You can't really be pretending that incident is
representative of the actual level of risk! How many attacks per million
nighttime walks do you think actually occur?
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That's aside from the fact that the timid tricyclist specified "foreign
country." But Phoenix is in _this_ country. I'm pretty sure the foreign
countries that I've visited have all been shown to be safer, on average,
than America.

 
Well, if you're only going to go to "safe" countries. Much of the
Carribean where I was walking is today, not particularly safe.
 
Here I am walking in Cozumel. I think it was a couple miles from the
hotel to the Plaza. We took a taxi home because I could hardly walk
with the bends in my ankle. In the picture, it had only begun to hurt.
Later, in the restaurant, it got really painful.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/j_soloman/53147607323/in/datetaken/
 
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C'est bon
Soloman

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As here, many local variants to all that.
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My employee says he and his bride never felt unsafe in Costa
Rica (a nation with no army, BTW).
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Early today I read a very long piece with many interviews of
El Salvadorans who all sang the praises of the current
administration as they were until recently the top country
for homicide rate but now among the lowest.  Women in
particular noted they had never let young children outside
before, walked to the market without fear and the street
vendors among them said not paying the gangs every day adds
immensely to their family's finances.
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An old friend and ex-bicycle mechanic (not here) who's
retired has visited Mexico frequently over the past ten
years or so. His friends there are on the Pacific, north of
Barre de Navidad.  He returned last week and said he isn't
going back any time soon. Even in small towns and villages
there are guys with black balaclavas and auto weapons in
small groups. Scared the hell out of him.

When I first visited Mexico, Puerto Vallarta, I asked at the Hotel,
about the safety of walking around after dark, as I was inclined to
do. I was told that I was Ok as long as I stayed away from the back
streets. Years later, I got the same message in other places in the
Carribean.


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C'est bon
Soloman