Skiing is a very safe sport
 

It must be. I read it in the paper:

"It's a very safe sport," said David Ingemie, president of SnowSports
Industries America, a Washington, D.C., area trade association that
monitors trends and safety statistics. "It's safer than riding a bike,
safer than baseball."

http://www.freep.com/news/locoak/skier5e_20050105.htm


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Walt wrote:

It must be. I read it in the paper:

Sorry, I couldn't quite hear that...it was drowned out by the sound of
the grinding axe.


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Mary Malmros
Some days you're the windshield, other days you're the bug.

Mary Malmros wrote:
Walt wrote:

It must be. I read it in the paper:

Sorry, I couldn't quite hear that...it was drowned out by the sound of
the grinding axe.

Zat what that sound is? I thought I was just clenching my teeth.

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//-Walt
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// There is no Volkl Conspiracy

Walt wrote:

Mary Malmros wrote:

Walt wrote:

It must be. I read it in the paper:


Sorry, I couldn't quite hear that...it was drowned out by the sound of
the grinding axe.


Zat what that sound is? I thought I was just clenching my teeth.

It could be. Are there tooth splinters poking into your frontal lobe? ;-)

Seriously, I get your point, but I'm of the, "When you hear hoofbeats,
look for horses," school of thought. If there's an absence of
comprehensive data on sliding accidents, it sure doesn't take a
conspiracy, because compiling such data would take a bunch of work and a
lot of cooperation and a big fat grant. And an absence of a smoking gun
doesn't mean that someone is hiding one.

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Mary Malmros
Some days you're the windshield, other days you're the bug.

"Walt" wrote in message
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It must be. I read it in the paper:

I've been skiing since before I could walk (no reallly) and have never hurt
myself (touch wood). I think hurting yourself is optional, not mandatory.
Which is why I get so furious and others thinking it's OK to hurt ME so long
as it's "an accident".

ant

ant wrote:

"Walt" wrote in message
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It must be. I read it in the paper:


I've been skiing since before I could walk (no reallly)

Sure. Got a bridge you'd like to sell us?


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Mary Malmros
Some days you're the windshield, other days you're the bug.

I started doing the wedge inside the womb .
Ron

"Mary Malmros" wrote in message
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ant wrote:

"Walt" wrote in message
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It must be. I read it in the paper:


I've been skiing since before I could walk (no reallly)

Sure. Got a bridge you'd like to sell us?


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Mary Malmros
Some days you're the windshield, other days you're the bug.

"Ron - NY" wrote in message
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I started doing the wedge inside the womb .
Ron

Me too, but I had to walk a couple years before I learned to flatboard.




"Mary Malmros" wrote in message
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ant wrote:

"Walt" wrote in message
...

It must be. I read it in the paper:


I've been skiing since before I could walk (no reallly)

Sure. Got a bridge you'd like to sell us?


--
Mary Malmros
Some days you're the windshield, other days you're the bug.

And just because I'm paranoid doesn't mean they're not out to get me.
.. .

William

Mary Malmros wrote:
Walt wrote:
Mary Malmros wrote:
Walt wrote:

It must be. I read it in the paper:

Sorry, I couldn't quite hear that...it was drowned out by the sound
of the grinding axe.

Zat what that sound is? I thought I was just clenching my teeth.

It could be. Are there tooth splinters poking into your frontal lobe? ;-)

No. That would constitute a dental lobotomy, and it hasn't happened to
me yet. But if I start posting about my newfound fascination with
Andrew Lloyd Weber, Yanni and Thomas Kincaid, you'll know it has.


Seriously, I get your point, but I'm of the, "When you hear hoofbeats,
look for horses," school of thought. If there's an absence of
comprehensive data on sliding accidents, it sure doesn't take a
conspiracy, because compiling such data would take a bunch of work and a
lot of cooperation and a big fat grant. And an absence of a smoking gun
doesn't mean that someone is hiding one.

Well, my guess is that it would take a phd student about 6 months and
maybe 20k to collect enough data to present a reasonable summary,
assuming that the resorts cooperated. No, I'm not volunteering to pay
for it myself, but I don't think it's beyond reasonable. The hard part
of actually collecting the data is already done, it's just moldering in
the filing cabinets at the resort offices where it doesn't do anybody
much good, other than serving as ass-covering evidence for legal.

Dammit. I promised to stay off the soap box today. Oh well.

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