On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 5:18 PM, P. J. Alling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If they were wearing helmets shouldn't they have been saved? Horrors > another illusion shattered...
I know it's counter-intuitive, but helmets actually increase risk-taking behaviour. Since they were wearing helmets they thought they were invincible, and so considered copulating on a railroad track before an oncoming train to be a risk worth taking. Had they not been wearing helmets, they'd have likely been doing it in a field or something. Of course, the booze may have been a factor as well... cheers, frank, suddenly switching sides in the Great Helmet Debate -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
