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- From: joe@woody.mpd.tandem.com (Joe Senner)
- Newsgroups: austin.general
- Subject: get 'yer livers here (was Re: accepting risk)
- Message-ID: <2865@devnull.mpd.tandem.com>
- Date: 12 Nov 92 14:30:29 GMT
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- Organization: Tandem Computers Inc., Austin, TX.
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- ]]proof positive that higher education DOESN'T work. the age old fallacy of
- ]]public burden rears its ignorant head, motorcyclists are a medical blight
- ]]on society. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- ] ^^^^^^^^^^
- ]On the contrary,
-
- it's not really contrary since I was talking financially to society, but...
-
- ]motorcyclists are a major asset to the medical
- ]industry. Motorcyclists are a major supply of spare organs and
- ]tissue for various&sundry transplant operations. In fact, police
- ]in the Chicago, IL area refer to motorcycles as "donorcycles"
- ]for just this reason (ref: _What Cops Know_ and _Pure Cop_ by
- ]Connie Fletcher).
-
- I don't disagree at all. when a motorcyclist gets taken out, chances
- are there'll be plenty of spare parts left over. I would point out
- though that there are one hell of a lot more fatal car collisions than
- there are motorcycle collisions. as I've told many people, motorcycling
- is a lot like flying, chances are I'm not gonna be in a wreck, but if
- I am chances are it'll be pretty nasty...
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- Joe Senner joe@rider.cactus.org
- Tandem Computers Inc. joe@mpd.tandem.com
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