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Wearing helmets 16-Nov-2005 At 2:20:53 PM mockmockmock

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On 16/11/2005 DaCrux wrote:
If you have a frontal lobe injury all your disinhibitions come out and you become aggressive and your actions may be inappropriate (to use a medical term).

I don't see how this is too much different from most people now.. lol

As for the rest of it, there are some good points BUT, I've known a lot of people who have died in their sleep.. imagine waking up to be dead and not even knowing it because you didn't wake up.

The huge rant won't change anyones thoughts, there are lots of ways to be maimed or rendered in a vegetative state. If this form of warning works for you Da Crux, that's great and I suggest never going to sleep ever again, excercising, walking across the road being rescusitated (?), being intribated (??), travellingt to Bali or going climbing at all.

We all accept there are risks and likely injuries but we choose to do these thing inspite of it. As I ride a motorbike as well I often want to punch people in the nose who feel the need to tell me how dangerous it is and how they knew such n such that was killed, is in a wheel chair or crashed. Your rant today make me want to add you to that list too. I won't of course because I realise you just don't know better and it would acheive nothing.

Many years ago I used to do a lot of circuit motor racing. We also did some small club stuff where jeans and longsleeved shirts were ok to wear. I was asked " which person looks more stupid, the person in 3 piece nomex that doesn't have an accident or the one who does but his nomex is in his race bag next to the trailer?" That worked for me, so I'll pass that on.. Who looks more silly, the person climbing wearing a helmet or the one was injured while his helmet was hanging on his pack?? atleast the pack was safe!!!

Off now to J walk across the road, buy some chicken from the vietnamese shop, climb the ladder to the mezzanine lunch room and have a coffee.

WISH ME LUCK

Ralph