BIKE: Today's AAS Rant

[Stuart Werbner]

The point I was attempting to make was this:

If a young, white, up-and-comer living in the fast lane, so to speak, dies 
in a crash, then the local media is likely to investigate the individual and 
the circumstances.

If it is some poor minority (or maybe just plain poor) that is reduced to 
trying to save some legwork by crossing a freeway on foot, then little or no 
attention is paid by the local media.

Simple as that.

My prediction is that we will have some more laws restricting cell phone 
usage in motor vehicles as a result before we have even one more safe 
crossing of even one local highway installed.

     __o
   _`\<,_
  (*)/ (*)
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Stuart Werbner
Annuit Coeptis





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>Once you read the report yourself, you'll see that they brought up the cell
>phone for the exact reason you claimed they paid no attention too. It was a
>statement that basically expressed the danger of cell phones and driving.
>
>They kinda even added insult to injury- would you prefer to make the
>headlines: "Negligent Death Chatting on Cell" or rather no exposure at all
>while avoiding the headlines: "Dancing Like Nobody's Watching on the
>Interstate Freeway"? Me thinks the Freeway Dancer left Earth with a tad 
>more
>dignity.
>
>The AAS successfully favored anti-cell-while-driving advocates on this one.
>
>
> > From: "Stuart Werbner" <stuwerb>
> > Date: Sat, 13 Mar 2004 17:23:31 -0600
> > To: forum
> > Subject: BIKE: Today's AAS Rant
> >
> > The latest thing the AAS has done to piss me off:
> >
> > A friend told me that there was a story in today's AAS (3/13) about the 
>29
> > year old white woman in the red beemer that was killed near the 
>intersection
> > of 620 and 2222 yesterday afternoon. Evidently, the paper even bothered 
>to
> > find out that she was talking on her cell phone as she lost control of 
>her
> > vehicle.
> >
> > Then, contrast that with the coverage given to the guy who several weeks 
>ago
> > was hit by a truck trying to cross I-35. Never did find out much about 
>him.
> > Never did find out why he and others like him risk crossing the highway.
> > Never any attention paid to that. Guess he was just some poor, crazy
> > minority, oh well....
> >
> >    __o
> >  _`\<,_
> > (*)/ (*)
> > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> > Stuart Werbner
> > Annuit Coeptis
>
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