Someone wrote:

It's a non-story that goes back even further, and is merely evidenced
by the interesting and unique ways that motorists find to claim their
darwin awards. You summed it up rather nicely: "it's largely ignored
by the public", and that's why they die.

Boo hoo hoo. People have choice, and some of those decided there are
other things in their life more important than vehicular safety. No
loss.

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Don't steal; the government hates competition!

Once again, the finger has been pointed at different groups, rather than
ALL road users.....you failed to mention tired shift workers, old people
with slow reaction times etc. As long as everyone thinks someone else is
the problem, the carnage will never end.

Hell no. Not me. I have long advocated crimping the testes of boys
at an early age and teaching them how to resonate with the
harmonic balance of the universe. Dangerous activities can be replaced
with chanting, creative floral management, basket weaving and many
other benefits to an evolving society.

And heart disease kills 875,000 of our fat a.ses every year. If you
really want to save lives, outlaw Burger King. Yeah, that'd go over
real well.

And you're right -- nobody cares. Wanna know why? Because 44,000 lives
out of 6 billion is an insignificant number.

Everybody dies, Junior. Even you.

Tim Kreitz
2003 ZX7R
2000 ZX6R
http://www.timkreitz.com

Oh! The Humanity!

                               Bill Smith

            "There are four kinds of homicide; felonious, excusable,
justifiable, and praiseworthy"

                                   Ambrose Bierce

legal ones

is a drug ergo you are a fish.

Nope that stuff will kill you! Your teeth rot out
sores all over your body...f.ck that sh.t.

If you can survive it you deserve a chance to grow
older...

even grown ups are jerks.

They is funny yes??? What the the open shirts
hairy chests mustaches half burnt off by flaming
drinks.

ITYM to say Motorcyclist. WE are far more sensble
and responsble than any car driving c.nt.

Ah you see a fool and I see someone find fun and
adventure THEIR way not yours.

What a coward...PLONK

the COLD-HEARTED BASTARD christian god, BUSY AS USUAL,. COMMITTING MURDER

Ladies and Gentlemen (and I use those words loosely),  said in
rec.autos.driving:

<<snip biased article>>

Question: Who gives a flying f.ck?
Answer: Nobody.

I thought about caring once, but decided that I didn't want to spend all
my time entering names into the Darwin Award database.

Begone, troll.

** P * L * O * N * K **

I, of course have been saying the same thing for years but this is a
pretty good article.  One glaring blunder the guy made is calling these
deaths "accidents" when 99% of them are due to criminal activities like
speeding and drunk driving.

Most americans are idiots and have been brainwashed by the media into
thinking that killing someone with your car somehow doesn't count!!!

But his letter resulted in
a humiliating letter from
76 Senators,

demanding that the president

"make it clear that the United States,
acting in its own national interests,
stands firm with Israel."

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/rosnerBlog.jhtml?itemNo=806601&contrassID=25&
subContrassID=0&sbSubContrassID=1&listSrc=Y&art=1

Posted: December 28, 2006

The leader who saved Israel from Nixon

WASHINGTON -

Betty Ford, the President's wife,
dragged Israel's Prime Minister
onto the dance floor.

Protesting that he did not know
how to dance did nothing to save
Yitzhak Rabin.

Ford explained that she had
taught worse dancers a few moves.

Rabin was saved a minute later
by secretary of state Henry
Kissinger who cut in.

"I will be eternally grateful
for that small mercy," Rabin wrote.

"If he would not have done
anything else for Israel,
Kissinger is worthy of praise
for saving me from that
embarrassment."

The dialogue between Israel and
the United States deteriorated
following Rabin's visit in
September of 1974.

Gerald Ford will always be
remembered as the president
who imposed a "reassessment"
of the relationship.

Only history will tell whether
he change of leadership in Washington -
from Richard Nixon,

impeached over the Watergate scandal,
to his deputy, who died yesterday at
age 93 -

saved Israel from an
equally stern president.

On the eve of his impeachment,
Nixon wanted to press Israel
even more than Ford,
and would have certainly
done so more efficiently.

Ford died yesterday,
still holding on to two records:

The longest living former president,
nd the only president to have not
been elected into office,
neither as president or
vice president.

In a press release yesterday,
President George Bush described
him as a "true gentleman who
reflected the best in America's
character."

Perhaps that is the reason
he is unable to grade better
than "below average" in the
eyes of historians.

There have been few presidents
who entered office in a weaker
position than Ford:

under him Saigon fell
and the economy teetered.

But clashing with Israel was
something he managed to do well.

The strained relations
between Ford and Rabin,

which never reached the level
of warmth shared by their predecessors,
Nixon and Golda Meir,
was only a symptom of
the diplomatic dispute.

The Ford Administration wanted
to strike up an agreement between
Israel and Jordan,
and achieve progress with Egypt.

Rabin was a weak prime
minister domestically,
and was hard pressed
to meet Ford's wishes.

Ford had no real diplomatic experience.

Nixon appointed him vice president
when Spiro Agnew was caught in a
corruption scandal -

and when the president stepped
down in the wake of Watergate,
Ford became president for
nearly 900 days.

In any case, most of his work
as president was cleaning up the
mess left by his predecessor.

Yesterday, America remembered
him mostly for pardoning Nixon -
a decision originally said to
have destroyed the few chances
he had of winning the 1976 elections,

and later lauded
as a courageous,
appropriate move.

His March 1975 announcement
that the U.S. policy in the
Middle East would undergo a
"reassessment" was not seen
in similar light.

More than anything this was
an expression of frustration
over the failure of Kissinger's

"shuttle diplomacy" in bringing
about further achievements in
Arab-Israeli relations following
initial successes.

Kissinger,
who ran Ford's policy and
basically accused Israel of
intransigence,

encountered a crisis of
confidence with Rabin.

The prime minister thought
Kissinger was lying to him -

and the secretary of
state was indeed lying.

He had promised Rabin that
he would not blame Israel
for the crisis but did so
anyway,

also in his private briefings
to the president.

Ford was "mad as hell," he says.

A threatening letter to Israel
was among the worse ever sent:

"Failure of the negotiations will
have a far-reaching impact on the
region and on our relations,"
the president wrote.

But his letter resulted in
a humiliating letter from
76 Senators,

demanding that the president

"make it clear that the United States,
acting in its own national interests,
stands firm with Israel."

They taught him a lesson on
the limits of his political power.

Still, Ford managed to make some gains,
in spite of the limitations imposed
on him and his secretary of state
by hawkish and dovish quarters alike.

The government of Israel proved
sufficiently flexible to allow a
further agreement in Sinai,

and used the American desire
for a peace agreement to squeeze
further aid from the U.S.

One can argue that he was the
President first paving the way
toward an Israeli-Egyptian
peace agreement.

Ford presided over a transitional period.

He reacted to events that his
predecessors set in motion,
but his short tenure,
and perhaps his affable
character,

did not allow him to formulate
new policy in nearly any area.

The American public also proved
reluctant to view him as a
long-term leader.

He was pressured from within
his party by the charismatic
Ronald Reagan, and from the left,
an unknown governor from Georgia,

Jimmy Carter,
promised the American public
what only an outsider could do:
clean house.

Carter, in his inaugural speech
best described Ford's legacy:

"For myself and my country,
I want to thank my predecessor
for all he has done to heal
our land."

Ignorant post.  America is a violent society because of the freedoms we
have.  Nothing new.

China forces parents to one child to control population. We let people
kill themselves.

Much better for our karma.

Kirb