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From: AMuzi <am@yellowjersey.org>
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Subject: Re: Most significant advance in bike technology for speed?
Date: Thu, 6 Feb 2025 09:09:45 -0600
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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.

-- 
Andrew Muzi
am@yellowjersey.org
Open every day since 1 April, 1971