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From: Roger Merriman <roger@sarlet.com>
Newsgroups: rec.bicycles.tech
Subject: Re: Most significant advance in bike technology for speed?
Date: 6 Feb 2025 16:05:42 GMT
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AMuzi <am@yellowjersey.org> wrote:
> On 2/5/2025 9:13 PM, Frank Krygowski wrote:
>> On 2/4/2025 9:37 AM, AMuzi wrote:
>>> 
>>> Had he followed the rules, he'd be dead.
>> 
>> We've been through all this before, of course. And we all 
>> know you, Andrew, are the master at finding links to truly 
>> rare negative events.
>> 
>> But (again) if a person were to make their life decisions 
>> based on the assumption that rare events would be happening 
>> to them, they'd be living a weird life indeed.
>> 
>> Stay out of houses! People have died in them!
>> https://www.wtsp.com/article/news/local/pascocounty/man- 
>> hospitalized-serious-condition-car-crash-pasco- 
>> county/67-20eb0233-763f-42de-a617-a5db70dd1c1a
>> 
>> 
> 
> Not all that rare. Stabbings are prevalent on public transit 
> in large cities.
> 
> Yesterday for example:
> https://nypost.com/2025/02/05/us-news/bloody-outbreak-of-nyc-subway-crime-leaves-at-least-5-hurt-in-stabbings-slashings-and-a-beating-cops/
> 
> And defensive use of blades is regular (from what I see, 
> about 1 out of 50 or so).
> 
> Speaking of rare events, how many of the 400 million 
> firearms were used in magic spontaneous fatal negligent 
> discharges in the owner's home? Is it more than the 1 to 3 
> million defensive use incidents? Curious minds want to know.
> 

While American cities do have higher violent crime rates, New York seems to
have about 4 million folks using Transit per day, which though perhaps a
bit low for the size of New York, London is 24 million per day. Does seem a
bit more car centric from what I can gathered.

But either way that’s a lot of people, who one assumes aren’t expecting to
have to deal with crime.

Roger Merriman