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who needs seat belts?
Claim: Anti-seat belt law advocate is killed in automobile accident. Origins: Despite the vital role automobile seat belts have played in saving thousands and thousands of lives over the last several decades, there is still a group of drivers and passengers who are determined not to wear them, for any number of reasons: because they find them too uncomfortable or confining, because they don't believe in their efficacy, because they've heard that wearing seat belts might actually cost them their lives in certain types of accidents, or because they resent as an unwarranted intrusion of government into private life the plethora of laws now requiring motorists to buckle up. In this vein, we note with a sense of both sadness and irony a couple of articles recently called to our attention. The first is a Evidently his words were far more prescient than any of us might have wanted, as an article in the Kieper, a 21-year-old senior at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, died early Tuesday morning when the Ford Explorer he was a passenger in travelled off an icy section of Two others in the vehicle, including the driver, Luke Havermann of Ogallala, and the front-seat passenger, Nick Uphoff of Randolph Air Force Base in Texas, sustained non-life threatening injuries. Havermann and Uphoff, both 21, were being treated at BryanLGH Medical Center West. Derek, who was thrown from the vehicle, was not wearing a seat belt, [Capt. Joe Lefler of the Lancaster County Sheriff's Office] said. He said Havermann and Uphoff were wearing seat belts at the time. Last updated: 9 January 2005
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01-10-2005, 12:56 PM | #2 |
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All we need now is a story about an animal rights activist that gets eaten by a grizzly bear or something...
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01-10-2005, 12:57 PM | #3 |
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It's like RAAAAAIIIINN...
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01-10-2005, 01:00 PM | #4 |
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01-10-2005, 01:24 PM | #5 |
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Thinning the herd.
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01-10-2005, 04:24 PM | #7 |
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Wouldn't the hat trick be a gun rights activist being shot?
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01-10-2005, 05:24 PM | #8 |
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I was thinking maybe something about the guy who invented the life preserver being strangled by the rope on one and drowning.
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01-10-2005, 06:12 PM | #9 |
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What about a gay rights activist getting gang raped by a bunch of guys?
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01-10-2005, 06:21 PM | #10 |
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I thought that was what they called an Inexpensive Date.
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01-10-2005, 06:57 PM | #11 |
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There has to be a story about an anti-Iraqi war activist killed by Iraqi's somewhere right? I think that would be the 3rd part of this
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01-10-2005, 07:25 PM | #12 |
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Nice to see people stretching analogies to make this little bit of cruel irony fit their political agendas, but you would really need to have a rapist activist gang raped or an anti-war activist killed by Saddam Hussein to have those analogies be comparable.
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01-10-2005, 07:31 PM | #13 |
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Or have Ryan come onto the board and ban SkyDog.
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01-10-2005, 08:03 PM | #14 |
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There was the girl who was flying to South Africa for some humanitarian effort who was beaten to death getting off the plane (or something along these lines).
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01-11-2005, 09:40 AM | #15 | |
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#2, How is a gay activist getting gang raped by a bunch of gays any different from a animal rights activist getting mauled by a grizzly? Jeez...lighten up. The Chiefs beat the Raiders, so you should be happy. |
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