Ace wrote:
On Thu, 06 Feb 2014 19:55:03 +0000, "
wrote:

No posts ? OK I will have an argument with myself then.


Doctor Fekyll: Schumi demonstrates that wearing a ski helmet is
sensible and should be made mandatory in law.

Herr Fyde: Bunkum ! Schumi was only a couple of ski-lengths from a
piste, moving at a slow speed. He could have just as easily tripped on
some icy concrete steps in his ski boots and brained himself. Is
helmet wearing going to be mandatory for those who are going out for
an evening's boozing in icey and slippery streets and passageways ?

Doctor Fekyll: Are you nuts ? That helmet just saved the life of the
world's greatest racing driver !

Herr Fyde: Good OK well I will agree to any legislation which mandates
that the world's greatest racing driver must wear a helmet when sking.
I refuse to wear a helmet because they are for raving Nancy-boys who
squat to pee.

Dr. Sceptic: The fact that he has such a serious head/brain injury
demonstrates very well just how little protection his helmet gave him.


You are right. I want to say " I cannot figure it out" but, I can
figure it out, or at least understand it.

A friend of mine was climbing (rock) and they had an accident some one
fell. I do not remember the distance but it was serious, like 50feet.
He was wearing a climbing helmet (old style 1970s) but they are only
to protect against rocks hitting you on the head, not against a 100mph
head-butt. When they got to him there was blood coming out of his
ears. I do not think he ever regained consciousness before he died, as
you would expect.

The worse one I saw was some one who fell from about six feet up,
measured from the soles of his boots. He was wearing a helmet but hit
his head on a rock. Very unlucky because there was sand and earth all
around. It looked like some one had thrown a bucket of blood on the
ground. He died in the helicopter. I will never forget the face of the
paramedic. He was ashen.

Schumi would be dead if had not wearing a helmet, I admit. But the
place where he fell was just a flat area between two pistes which had
boulders lying in it, the sort they leave there when they bulldoze the
piste out of the mountain when they originally put the lift in. There
was now way of falling 'down' on to something. You had to either go
into it at speed (which he was not doing) or just fall over.

Again it is just a 'icy steps on the way back from the bar' situation.
Which are way more dangerous than the small boulder field where Schumi
fell. I nearly broke my shoulder blade falling on an frozen lake once
(the shoulder blade hit flat on, not angle on, which shows you how
much force was involved). If I had hit my head that hard I think I
would have killed myself.

I suspect Schumi was wearing a helmet for the same reason as Madonna:
He can retain his anonymity.

A friend of mine who did close-protection for Schumi said that Michael
did not enjoy meet&greet that much, probably because he had done too
much of it. But his brother was OK about it.