Natural Selection in Action

9 Responses to “Natural Selection in Action”

1. Mike Says:
   February 8th, 2008 at 3:06 pm

   Where is your logic?
   1st: What does the helmet have to do with collision damage?
   Obviously, if scooter is going to crash, collision damage to you will be the same, regardless if rider had a helmet or not.
   2nd: scooter is not a motorcycle. So your link is pointless to start with.
   3rd: Link shows that motorcycles are more likely to crash, but does not say anything about collision damage relative to the cars. Obviously, damage from car or truck is going to be much more severe than from Vespa.

2. Ernest Says:
   February 8th, 2008 at 3:12 pm

   IN a regrettably unlikely event some moped operator indeed caused such a damage, a majority of the District residents would cheer on lightening the gene pool of IQs like yours, Andrew.

   The likeliness of your being damaged by a 4-wheeler is immeasurably higher, Spinoza.

3. Andrew Beaujon Says:
   February 8th, 2008 at 4:15 pm

   Mike, you’re not seriously arguing that helmets don’t save lives, are you? Because the stats don’t bear that out. Insurance companies consider scooters motorcycles. So do DMVs. I apologize for the moped joke; it’s just so good for making scooter people angry.

   Ernest: So glad to have you back.

4. Beaky Says:
   February 8th, 2008 at 5:09 pm

   Your ignorance is frightening, Ernest. The more I think of it, the more I’m convinced that Andrew was more Darwin-like, actually.

   What’s really baffling however is that the traffic rules on Calvert street appear to be different from the rest of America.

5. Mike Says:
   February 8th, 2008 at 5:16 pm

   hey, of course helmets save lives. Of the guys who wear them. But they don’t reduce collateral collision damage, the one you were worrying about. Therefore, for you it should be irrelevant, if he wears helmet or not. Moreover, perhaps, without helmet he would be more careful not to collide with you, than if he had one!

6. Ernest Says:
   February 8th, 2008 at 5:50 pm

   Right on the button, Mike.

   Beaky, if your existence is discolored it’s because of your inherent lack of cultural literacy. The pic is a actually a shot from “The Easy Rider” - the seminal American classic of the late 70s. Never heard of the counterculture, did you?

7. Creature Says:
   February 9th, 2008 at 12:00 am

   The helmet is going to keep (hopefully) your most precious organ intact, in case of accident. I did not mean your dingus, dingus-head! Scooters are usually operated by those that are too geeky to ride motorcycles- real, fast, hard-core motorcycles. There may be need to lower the level of the gene pool, but I don’t think scooter riders are the right place to start. Worthless journalists, though, lots of room for movement, there. Every want to reide a scooter, maybe a motorcycle? How about a moped? Come on, Andrew, it’s fun! WHEEEE!

8. Maark Says:
   February 10th, 2008 at 7:14 pm

   Really? That pic is from Easy Rider? Huh.

   Chances of one being in a car accident are indeed higher because THERE ARE FAR MORE CARS ON THE ROAD. One of the most common motorcycle/scooter/moped accident is…wait for it…BEING HIT BY A CAR.

   Andrew - wouldn’t logic follow that if one was careless enough to disregard their own safety, the safety of others would be equally disregarded if not more so? Lame.

   And please, let’s not get into the whole “real” motorcycle or “people that ride scooters are X type” BS. Might as well start arguing what qualifies as a “real” car or “people that drive a Ford are C type”.

9. Chris Says:
   July 10th, 2008 at 7:23 am

   Thing of all the organs for transplant that wouldn’t be there if he wore a helmet!

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