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From: AMuzi <am@yellowjersey.org>
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Subject: Re: bike path news
Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2025 07:42:37 -0500
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On 3/11/2025 8:51 PM, Frank Krygowski wrote:
> On 3/11/2025 8:50 AM, AMuzi wrote:
>> On 3/10/2025 9:56 PM, Frank Krygowski wrote:
>>> On 3/10/2025 8:11 PM, AMuzi wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> The murder of this thread was of an unarmed man on a 
>>>> bike path.
>>>
>>> Which does not mean it's even remotely likely on the bike 
>>> path where Mr. Tricycle Rider rides. It was a one in a 
>>> million event, thousands of miles away.
>>>
>>> His fear is as unrealistic as fear of dying from a spider 
>>> bite. It's almost as unrealistic as fear of walking past 
>>> a graveyard. It's a phobia, and his quasi-macho defense 
>>> strategy is even less admirable than clutching a teddy bear.
>>>
>>
>> OK, the risk is remote. But it's not zero.
> 
> Andrew, no risk is zero. But rational and non-phobic 
> people's assessment of most risks is _usually_ at least 
> vaguely related to the actual likelihood of the bad event.
> 
> That's not true for some "dangers," like spiders and snakes. 
> There are fewer than ten deaths from each per year in the 
> U.S.  Yet many people are completely irrational in those 
> phobias.
> 
> Mr. Tricycle is similarly irrational in his fear of riding a 
> bike path without his gun. And he's lately let us know that 
> he's also afraid of driving without a gun or pumping gas 
> without a gun. He's afraid of pedaling on normal streets, 
> too, gun or no. Remember, he's still in an endless snit 
> because I said that if he lacked the courage or competence 
> to ride normal roads, he could continue just riding back and 
> forth on his path, but it would be too boring for me.
> 
> His fears are not normal, and his fearful behavior is not 
> admirable.
> 

Let's check the data shall we?

https://www.statista.com/statistics/232564/robbery-rate-in-the-us-by-state/

Risk is higher in Ohio than in Florida.
But that's in aggregate by State, and of course each 
neighborhood or bike path or alley has its own features.

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