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From: Roger Merriman <roger@sarlet.com>
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Subject: Re: Most significant advance in bike technology for speed?
Date: 6 Feb 2025 17:08:19 GMT
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Catrike Ryder <Soloman@old.bikers.org> wrote:
> On 6 Feb 2025 16:05:42 GMT, Roger Merriman <roger@sarlet.com> wrote:
> 
>> 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
> 
> Many, perhaps most people lock their doors even though they don't
> really expect any strangers  to come around and try to get in. 
> 
> --
> C'est bon
> Soloman
> 

In a similar manner, doors unless proper security doors and frames offer
near zero protection from being forcibly opened, I’ve had to open doors/key
safes/medication cabinets none take more than a minute and that’s hardly
rushed job.

Did hear last century of one fellow postie who cam upon a bloke slumped by
the door, with the home owner, as he’d discovered that a proper security
door and frame is like running into a wall, home owner was mostly amused,
police and ambulance on way to collect the foolish lad!

Roger Merriman