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10-08-2009, 10:13 PM
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Waiting for next electron
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Originally Posted by Peter Ward
Yeah Yeah....but as a priority...what are we going to do about the 44 odd Aussies...over 5x the number of hooning scooter fatalities... who kill themselves.. each year... falling out of bed.
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Seat belts or would that be bed belts  . It will be on the next election promise list.
Mark
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10-08-2009, 10:15 PM
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Billions and Billions ...
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Peter Ward
Yeah Yeah....but as a priority...what are we going to do about the 44 odd Aussies...over 5x the number of hooning scooter fatalities... who kill themselves.. each year... falling out of bed.
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You've heard of pool fences ... how about bed fences??!!
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10-08-2009, 10:16 PM
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I see that the majority of the posters in this thread are against the sensationalising, or even portrayal of this story on TV.
Rest assured, however, that there is some semblance of truth to their story. When I used to take the bus to Macquarie University, I saw one elderly dude on his scooter in the bus lane on the M7. Not just once.
My $0.02.
Regards,
Humayun
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10-08-2009, 10:19 PM
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Galaxy hitchhiking guide
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Originally Posted by Octane
.......... I saw one elderly dude on his scooter in the bus lane on the M7. Not just once.
My $0.02.
Regards,
Humayun
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Aye carrumba. The scooter is not the problem.
That's what Darwin Awards are for.
Sadly the gene pool is probably contaminated already
Last edited by Peter Ward; 10-08-2009 at 10:20 PM.
Reason: amplification
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10-08-2009, 10:23 PM
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Galaxy hitchhiking guide
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Originally Posted by marki
.... that be bed belts . It will be on the next election promise list.
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Humm. Bondage? Nah...better not go there...
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10-08-2009, 10:42 PM
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Galaxy hitchhiking guide
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Trawling the ABS death data for 2007...52 Australians died due "forces of nature"
Scooters from space?
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10-08-2009, 10:48 PM
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Enhanced Astronomer
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Location: Sydney, Australia
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Originally Posted by Peter Ward
Trawling the ABS death data for 2007...52 Australians died due "forces of nature"
Scooters from space?
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10-08-2009, 10:49 PM
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No More Infinities
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10-08-2009, 11:18 PM
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Grumpy Old Man-Child
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This brings to mind to the late '70s when they first introduced 1.5ltr bottles of Coke/Pepsi etc.
Reportedly the (then) glass bottles were over-pressurised. Some exploded (allegedly) killing 3 people in the first year, before switching to plastic.
I wish ill on no-one, but really, if you are killed by an exploding pop bottle or seniour-scooter, don't you think your time was already up and this was the universe's last-ditch effort to get rid of you?
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11-08-2009, 12:27 AM
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Must be cloudy everywhere , and bugger all on TV
So many responses in this thread .... everyone must be bored out of their brains tonight ....
That includes me .... VideoEzy was my saviour tonight .
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11-08-2009, 12:29 AM
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Oops !
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11-08-2009, 03:20 AM
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Enhanced Astronomer
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Ian
You missed the great cyborg sci-fi 11.40 movie on SBS One, "Natural City", which is a Blade Runner like movie with heaps of brilliant effects. Made in South Korea in 2003. Nearly better than anything from the Video-Ezy etc. It is similarly based on the matrix and the William Gibson Cyberpunk books. The first ten minutes are the most chilling of a possible future for humankind. Scary!
Also on tonight was the English sequel to Life on Mars, Ashes to Ashes, with the very leggy Keeley Hawes. Interesting Series I.e. http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3269/...679004139.jpg?
http://www.filmjackets.com/TV_JACKET...-drake-004.jpg
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11-08-2009, 05:49 AM
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Quietly watching
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Originally Posted by Peter Ward
ABC news (Sydney) tonight ran a piece on motorised scooters for the edlerly.
Shock horror. 71 deaths in around the last decade have occured with an elderly driver at the throttle (yes, Virginia, around eight people a year die on motorised scooters in Australia)
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about typical for what passes as news these days.... drivel
churn out stories with as little real intelligent consideration ... no in depth journalism these days, just a quick headline, and a bit of spin. best described as cheap gossip. cant say i watch the news, hear 2 mins on the radio on the way to work thats enough. so unless someone drops a nuke or something like the twin towers, im not missing much.
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11-08-2009, 03:32 PM
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Bummer !!!
I wasn't interested in last night's 4Corners topic , and now Spooks is finished , so I grabbed 3 new releases SG1 Son's of the Ring, a Chinese movie (3 Brothers) - a real slice and dicer and a horror (about humanoid creatures who were attacking and eating people in a small town , something to do with Sloppy Seconds (it was crap and only thing it had going for it were the nearly naked bikey chicks near the end .... too bad VideoEzy no longer has Swap a Flop)).
Didn't think there'd be anything interesting on SBS last night.
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11-08-2009, 05:07 PM
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I have detailed files....
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Originally Posted by Peter Ward
P.S.
In 2007 some 44 Australians died from falling out of bed. Perhaps they were beds... err...with wheels?
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Hmmmm, TECHNICALLY, if they fell out of bed, they are no longer within the vehicle and therefore these should be considered PEDESTRIAN DEATHS???!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 
Where is Harold Scruby from the PCA when you need him?
I agree, some mindless beat up to make someone feel like they are busy or important, no doubt.
Chris
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11-08-2009, 05:46 PM
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Love the moonless nights!
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Waxing_Gibbous
This brings to mind to the late '70s when they first introduced 1.5ltr bottles of Coke/Pepsi etc.
Reportedly the (then) glass bottles were over-pressurised. Some exploded (allegedly) killing 3 people in the first year, before switching to plastic.
I wish ill on no-one, but really, if you are killed by an exploding pop bottle or seniour-scooter, don't you think your time was already up and this was the universe's last-ditch effort to get rid of you?
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Of topic......but dont think this is so silly, I have a scar on my chin where i was hit by an exploding 750ml coke bottle in 1987. Hot day, condensation, slippery hand, top half of bottle sheared of when colliding with ground, 3hrs in casualty, felt like a boxers uppercut. The cut was the the force of the bottle hitting me, not anything to do with sharp glass.
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11-08-2009, 06:32 PM
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just build it!
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If they fall out of bed they're flying!
Some people have nothing better to do than report these staggering stats, what a life!
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11-08-2009, 07:06 PM
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pro lumen
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Well I'm not sure Geezer scooters arn't going to be the next scourge on society as a whole .
Approaching a roundabout last week I spotted an old boy fresh out of the RSL , straight out from the curb , smoked up the car on the other side of the road and just kept comeing, I stopped on the roundabout
thinking maybe he might stop at the middle (shelter) ,nope kept going and gave me the forks on the way past.
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