🚀 go-pugleaf

On Sun, 28 Feb 1999 21:06:53 GMT, whorning@pipeline.com (Walt Horning)
wrote:

>Second, about 1 in 6 accidents is serious, meaning that everyone will
>be involved, on average, in one serious accident in a lifetime.
>
>Third, a serious accident is one where someone is seriously injured or
>killed.

>Sixth, I personally have been involved in 3 serious accidents (none my
>fault) and everytime I walked away without a scratch because of seat
>belts.

Hey Walt, can I claim one of your extras as mine?

>Eighth, this morning I saw about 50% not wearing belts on the way to
>work. So I guess I hate half of you in my area.

I hope you were in bumper-bumper traffic; I *know* you weren't scoping
out other drivers at 55mph...

>Ninth, I remember some friend's children who got angry at me for
>forcing them to buckle up. Then one day, one of the was driving the
>rest of them and some lady pulled out in front of them, not seeing
>them coming, and they found out just how much fun it is to be a
>projectile through the windshield at 40 mph, because they refused to
>wear their belts. While they have all recovered, one might have a
>damaged eye for life!!! Today, they buckle up "religiously".

FWIW, my kids buckle or we don't go anywhere. I agree that only stupid
people don't buckle, but I look at it as evolution in action, just
like smoking. ("Hey, this'll kill me? Cool - how much for a box?")

This is why DWI is so regrettable - like roaches, the violators always
seem to live while killing others. If they were just committing
suicide while intoxicated, I wouldn't care at all...

Philo