frank theriault wrote:
> 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
>
That's all right. I'm going to on both sides of the helmet debate...
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--Al Capone.
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