From: matth@progress.COM (Matthew J. Harper)
Subject: Re: infant crawlers banned (was: Helmets)
Organization: Progress Software Corp.
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 22:51:21 GMT

bd@fluent@dartmouth.EDU (Brice Dowaliby) writes:

>matth@progress.COM (Matthew J. Harper) writes:

>>blgardne@javelin.sim.es.com (Dances With Bikers) writes:
>>
>>>bd@fluent@dartmouth.EDU (Brice Dowaliby) writes:
>>>>ward@cs.uiuc.edu (Christ Ward) writes:
>>
>>>>>I caught part of a scary thing on the News last night.
>>>>>Turns out that Cannada has banned infant crawlers and the
>>>>>U.S. may do the same.  Why? Because X number (I can't remember
>>
>>>>Guy on the radio said it best the other day.  Six months old
>>>>babies are designed to stay where you put them, they are not
>>>>designed to be mobile.
>>
>>>Yea, if god had meant for babies to be mobile, they'd have been born with
>>>motorcycles.
>>>-- 
>>>Blaine Gardner @ Evans & Sutherland  blgardne@javelin.sim.es.com  BIX:blaine_g
>>>580 Arapeen Drive, SLC, Utah 84108           Favorite road signs:
>>>Dumper of Dirtbikes #46             FJ1200   Winding Road Next 77 Miles
>>>My other motorcycle is a Quadracer           Caution: Passing Areas Not Marked
>>
>>  Oh puhleease!
>>
>>  Why is it that people cannot take some responsibility for their actions?  I 
>>read everything I could get my hands on related to this issue.  As far as I 
>>could tell *everyone* of the 6 kids that bought the farm from the walkers did
>>so because their *parents* basically put them in it and forgot about them! 
>>Just another case of unsupervised children getting into trouble.
>>
>>  I don't mean to imply a 'it's their own damn fault' attitude here.  I just 
>>think it would be wiser to educate people than simply remove the hazards.  
>>
>>  The mentality used for banning the walkers easily leads to conclusions of
>>calls for banning other items that are hazardous when not used properly such as
>>snow blowers, childrens bicycles, and of course, motorcycles.  (And we all know
>>that they have already started the attack on the motorcycle already.)

>Matthew, Matthew, Matthew.  CALM DOWN!

>We're just having a little fun with your post.

>I can't/won't speak for Blaine, but I never said I agreed with
>the attempt to legislate the safety you're talking about.  All
>I said was that I wouldn't put my kid in one of those walkers.

>Is that okay with you?
>-- 
>   Brice Dowaliby, Fluent Inc., 10 Cavendish Court, Lebanon, NH  03766
>                         bd%fluent@dartmouth.edu        
>             I don't speak for them, they don't speak for me
>                              DoD # 0698

  (First off don't get pissed off at me for including everything above....)

  Hey, it's just *fine* with me if you don't put your kids into one of those
walkers..  But now *you* Brice get 20 slaps with a wet non-leather riding glove
on the backside for attributing the original post to me.  :-)  Mine was a 
followup due to an irresistible urge that swelled up inside me.

  I'm just really tired of all these assholes that think the reason the were
put on earth was to keep me from hurting myself.  That's how we get the
wonderful things like seatbelt improvments that slide along the door track 
and open when the door is opened at 60MPH.

-Matth


          Matthew J. Harper ! Progress Software Corp. ! {disclaimer.i}         
   God created heaven and earth to grow barley and hops. Now he homebrews !-)  
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          Matthew J. Harper ! Progress Software Corp. ! {disclaimer.i}         
   God created heaven and earth to grow barley and hops. Now he homebrews !-)