Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Catrike Ryder Newsgroups: rec.bicycles.tech Subject: Re: Cyclist dead Date: Sat, 15 Feb 2025 14:26:43 -0500 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 45 Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Sat, 15 Feb 2025 20:26:45 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="ed8a347b8526f0a6340719efc9e54a98"; logging-data="188336"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/CmGcYZMRP8GWe+dmgxzD0pEx330DgVMM=" User-Agent: ForteAgent/8.00.32.1272 Cancel-Lock: sha1:e0U35+HTNYBdGm8xS97RwKDXPLQ= Bytes: 2597 On Sat, 15 Feb 2025 13:11:54 -0500, 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 >>> 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." Or he might have thought, "Damn, that was fun." >Not all decisions are correct. Depends on your point of view. -- C'est bon Soloman