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Path: num2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!num1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!number.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!postnews.google.com!e34g2000vbm.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Message-ID:  From: Nuxx Bar  Newsgroups: uk.rec.cycling Subject: Re: Walking helmets Date: Sun, 9 Aug 2009 12:29:15 -0700 (PDT) References:   <61mt75pr8v4h8hgrtgc8k2r1n3jjjhlnsb@4ax.com>  Lines: 35 Organization: http://groups.google.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 81.156.193.13 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: posting.google.com 1249846156 12516 127.0.0.1 (9 Aug 2009 19:29:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 9 Aug 2009 19:29:16 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: e34g2000vbm.googlegroups.com; posting-host=81.156.193.13; posting-account=7_6kYAkAAABD6HrjM0VxehwvZOKMxm4g User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.0.13) Gecko/2009073022 Firefox/3.0.13 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729),gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Bytes: 2856 Xref: perfectly-safe.chapmancentral.co.uk uk.rec.cycling:723688

On Aug 9, 3:40=A0pm, "Mr. Benn" <%%@%%.%> wrote: > Peter Grange  wrote innews:61mt75pr8v4h8hgrtg= c8k2r1n3jjjhlnsb@4ax.com: > > > On Sun, 09 Aug 2009 11:17:24 +0200, Tosspot  > > wrote: > > >>Think of the children.... > > >> =A0 =A0http://www.thudguard.com/ > > >>You couldn't make it up. > > > It doesn't explain exactly how it stops your heart being rendered. Can > > bike helmets do that too? I'm sure someone would have mentioned it if > > they could ;-) > > "Over 318,575 baby & toddler head injuries are recorded each > year!"(Department of Trade & Industry). > > Again, common sense being ridiculed. =A0What is wrong with people?

Your story about your friend being put in hospital, and a cycle helmet saving him from much worse injuries, was clearly just made up. There is no way that cycle helmets could possibly be of any benefit. After all, cyclists shouldn't have any restrictions put on them, since they use a morally superior form of transport (and equally, motorists should have as many restrictions put on them as possible, to punish them for using a morally bankrupt form of transport). That is the only important thing; mere safety concerns simply don't matter. Your friend may have saved his life by using a helmet, but he damaged the cycling cause by strengthening the case for more restrictions (however sensible) being put on cyclists, so I'm sure he'd agree that he shouldn't have worn a helmet then, and nor should any cyclists wear helmets ever.