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From: AMuzi <am@yellowjersey.org>
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Subject: Re: Cyclist dead
Date: Sat, 15 Feb 2025 12:45:59 -0600
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On 2/15/2025 12:11 PM, Frank Krygowski wrote:
> On 2/15/2025 8:55 AM, AMuzi wrote:
>> On 2/15/2025 5:18 AM, Catrike Ryder wrote:
>>> On Fri, 14 Feb 2025 23:17:42 -0500, Frank Krygowski
>>> <frkrygow@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 2/14/2025 7:59 PM, Mark J cleary wrote:
>>>>> On 2/14/2025 12:57 PM, AMuzi wrote:
>>>>>> https://realdealnews.org/2025/02/14/extreme-sports- 
>>>>>> influencer-dies-
>>>>>> while-cycling-down-volcano/
>>>>> Live for a thrill and you get to die for the thrill. 
>>>>> This does not make
>>>>> sense to me at all.
>>>>
>>>> Agreed. "Influencers" who do hyper-risky tricks to gain 
>>>> followers and
>>>> make money do nobody any good. They probably inspire 
>>>> other fools to lose
>>>> at risky tricks. And as in this case, they trigger 
>>>> public spending to
>>>> rescue them from their failures.
>>>
>>> For many people, risk is the spice of life. For others, 
>>> it's something
>>> to be avoided.
>>>
>>> -- 
>>> C'est bon
>>> Soloman
>>
>> Yes and we all choose our battles.
>>
>> One might say Mr Villareal Perez died doing what he loved, 
>> which is not the worst way to go out.
> 
> If he retained consciousness about five minutes after his 
> crash, my bet is that he thought "OK, that was a huge 
> mistake" rather than "Oh good, I'm going to die from doing 
> what I loved."
> 
> Not all decisions are correct.
> 

I would not have done that or anything of the sort but it 
was his decision to make.

-- 
Andrew Muzi
am@yellowjersey.org
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