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On 04/08/2011 13:20, Just zis Guy, you know? wrote: > On 04/08/2011 13:05, Zapp Brannigan wrote: >> Simon Mason wrote: >>>> On 3-Aug-2011, "Zapp Brannigan"  wrote: >>>>> It's unfortunate that he wasn't wearing a helmet. >>>>> >>>> How would a helmet have avoided this? >>>> >>>> "Fourteen year-old Toby Darrington suffered a broken hip, a >>>> ruptured bladder and other internal injuries". >>> >>> Those magic hats have all body protection of course. > >> Head injuries were mentioned in other coverage : ?...he lost control >> of his bicycle and collided with a car which unavoidably drove over >> his abdomen resulting in a suspected head injury and abdominal >> injuries.... We were informed mercifully that Toby was alive on life >> support and that the scans showed no brain injury but further scans >> had to be carried out...." >> www.thamesvalley.police.uk/newsevents/newsevents-pressreleases/newsevents-pressreleases-item.htm?id=185246 > >> But that's really beside the point.   Here's a simple question for >> you :  If it was your child who had fallen in front of a moving SUV, >> would you wish them to be wearing a helmet when that happened ? > >> Yes or no please, not a tendentious and irrelevant rehash of the >> weary old arguments. > > We don't get to choose what hits us or when.

I note that you avoided answering Zapp Brannigan's question. This is, of course, because you advise *your* children to wear helmets; it's just everyone else's children whose safety you don't care about.