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- From: jlpicard@austin.ibm.com (Craig Becker)
- Newsgroups: austin.general
- Subject: Re: accepting risk (was speed traps on 2222)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.141432.5861@awdprime.austin.ibm.com>
- Date: 18 Nov 92 14:14:32 GMT
- References: <1d6jesINN4oh@im4u.cs.utexas.edu]<KEIROUZ.92Oct29084217@flame.slcs.slb.com]<8@parnasus.dell.com]<2763@devnull.mpd.tandem.com] <2778@devnull.mpd.tandem.com> <1992Nov9.171308.22740@awdprime.austin.ibm.com> <6018@tivoli.UUCP>
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- Organization: IBM Object Technology Products
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- Originator: jlpicard@woofer.austin.ibm.com
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- kneff@teton.NoSubdomain.NoDomain (Ken Neff) writes:
- > In article <1992Nov9.171308.22740@awdprime.austin.ibm.com>, jlpicard@austin.ibm.com (Craig Becker) writes:
- >
- > |> On the contrary, motorcyclists are a major asset to the medical
- > |> industry. Motorcyclists are a major supply of spare organs and
- > |> tissue for various&sundry transplant operations.
- >
- > Do you have any facts to support this statement, or is this just
- > your (nonsensical) belief?
- >
- > |> 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). ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^^
- > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- > Ignorant people often say stupid things. I doubt that Chicago motorcycle
- > cops refer to motorcyclists in the same manner.
-
- I gave references in my original post. Since I don't plan on bringing the
- books over to your place and reading the relevant passages out loud to you,
- feel free to believe whatever you want; It's a free country. And besides,
- someday you might (unwittingly) save my life....
-
- :-)
-
- Craig
-
- Not the opinion of my employer.
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