Re: The Critical Massholes are coming to San Diego!!!

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From: Dani Kuettel
Date: Mon, 15 Dec 1997 00:00

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Jafo wrote in message <349ea083.3181010@news.cheetah.net>...
>On Sun, 14 Dec 1997 12:04:09 GMT, zombie wrote:
>
>>On Sat, 13 Dec 1997 14:17:18 -0800, "Dani Kuettel" <kuettel@dsp.net>
wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Every 450 cars are responsible for one fatality;
>>>Every 100 cars are responsible for one handicapped person;
>>>Every 7 cars are responsible for one injured person;
>>>Every 50 minutes a new car is produced that will kill someone;
>>>Every 50 seconds a new car is produced that will injure someone.
>
>>What crap.  That's like saying guns kill people.  Things don't kill
people,
>>people kill people.
>
>That's right.  And any number of "cars" are responsible for none of
>the above; every time I've seen a car moving down the street, there's
>been a person at the wheel.  These are just cars, they're not
>Terminator units.


Then why is it so easy for a person to get their drivers license and to buy
a car when they are responsible for so many deaths?  When the lives of so
many people are involved, why don't we try to educate people to move out of
their cars and into the buses?

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From: "Dani Kuettel" <kuettel@dsp.net>
Subject: Re: The Critical Massholes are coming to San Diego!!!
Date: 1997/12/15
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