Re: Helmet efficacy test

On 4/22/2025 3:29 AM, John B. wrote:

On Mon, 21 Apr 2025 22:42:31 -0400, Frank Krygowski
<frkrygow@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
 

On 4/21/2025 5:14 PM, AMuzi wrote:

On 4/21/2025 12:43 PM, Frank Krygowski 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.
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That was in the morning news, one of several similar across the nation
this weekend. As usual.
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https://www.aol.com/news/alabama-dad-jacob-couch-dies-050914741.html?
guccounter=1
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https://cwbchicago.com/2025/04/man-gets-4-years-for-shooting-younger-
brother-he-was-tired-of.html
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https://nypost.com/2025/04/19/us-news/brute-who-hit-ny-post-reporter-
still-on-lam-after-double-stab/

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Yes, and you're digging back into events that happened as much as four
years ago.
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If you dig deeply enough, you can find many thousands of such stories.
What you're ignoring is the denominator - the 300+ million people in
America, almost all of whom made it through the weekend with no assault,
no trauma at all.
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You're pretending the half-a-handful of scary stories you managed to
dredge up by internet search are the norm. They are not, and pretending
they are common just adds to the paranoia and fear of the timid crowd.
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It's as silly as the former Safe Kids Inc. advice: "No child under age
10 should be allowed to cross a street alone" or "No child should play
outside without adult supervision."

 So now Frank has appointed himself  the arbitrator of posts to this
site and what each writer  will be allowed to post and what will be
forbidden.

I'm not forbidding anything, John, and I'm sorry you're confused yet again.
This is a discussion group. When one person makes a post, others are expected to discuss it. How is that not obvious to you?

All I can say is "Fuck You Frank" and as for me you can go away as
your posts will no longer appear on my computer.

Oh my gosh! I'm so hurt!   ;-)
More realistically: That's fine. You're obviously allowed to read what you like, and not read what you don't want to read. But your action is perilously close to "I don't like what you're saying so I'm going to cover my ears!  LaLaLaLa..."  or maybe "I'm taking my ball and going home!  <sniff>"
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- Frank Krygowski