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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 10:46:38 -0600
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On 2/6/2025 10:05 AM, Roger Merriman 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


My daughter has been riding more in Chicago's miserable 
winter as the trains, even in her upscale neighborhood, are 
more dangerous that being run down in a snowy street. 
Several murders this year at her nearby train station.

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