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Path: num2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!num1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!number.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border3.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!goblin2!goblin.stu.neva.ru!ecngs!feeder2.ecngs.de!zen.net.uk!hamilton.zen.co.uk!prichard.zen.co.uk.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <4e1b2b19$0$2497$db0fefd9@news.zen.co.uk> From: Nuxx Bar  Newsgroups: uk.rec.cycling Subject: Re: Another needless death of a cyclist. Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2011 17:55:52 +0100 References:  <4e1a9c80$0$2485$db0fefd9@news.zen.co.uk> <97190572-9414-4a2a-924d-77f6b7d7aaa9@p31g2000vbs.googlegroups.com> Lines: 23 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.7; en-US; rv:1.9.2.18) Gecko/20110616 Thunderbird/3.1.11 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <97190572-9414-4a2a-924d-77f6b7d7aaa9@p31g2000vbs.googlegroups.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Organization: Zen Internet NNTP-Posting-Host: 5cbde9a7.news.zen.co.uk X-Trace: DXC=M`:5CYG[HSLSRhWa=_nPTM0g@SS;SF6nGR9OH0:RnENDEW1HY7?bL^K`:ITG5aA:cGeo\4;5[KRjG X-Complaints-To: abuse@zen.co.uk Bytes: 2189 Xref: perfectly-safe.chapmancentral.co.uk uk.rec.cycling:816292

On 11/07/2011 10:02, Simon Mason wrote: > On Jul 11, 7:47 am, Nuxx Bar  wrote: >> On 09/07/2011 17:29, Simon Mason wrote: >> >>> "He and a neighbour would do a daily three-mile bicycle ride, with Mr >>> Hackemer using hand pedals to propel his bike." >> >>> No mention of a helmet though. >> >>> http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2012832/Darien-Lake-Iraq-war-... >> >> Oh dear, a *needless* death you say? I much prefer the necessary >> cyclist deaths (you know, the ones which JzG is OK with, because they >> allow us to have speed cameras and other killer anti-car measures). > > I didn't know they had safety cameras on a rollercoaster. > They'd make a few bob.

And they'd be completely ineffective at improving safety since they'd be set to penalise speeds which were safe for the conditions. Just like the other scameras. Interesting that you *still* call them "safety cameras" when on rollercoasters though...says it all really. You've been completely brainwashed on this particular subject, I'm sorry to say.