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Re: [RC] Helmets . . . Again - Sisu West Ranch".... I'd have to wonder how our ancestors survived to get us to the age of motorized vehicles...." The answer is that many of them did not survive. For many generations the average age of death was somewhere under 40. Disease was a big cause, but accidents also took their toll. Lots of injuries that today would just be uncomfortable, were fatal. Human life was cheap. Nobody thought twice when a mine blew up and killed a bunch of miners. Sailers fell off of the yards all the time, the ship would not even go back to try to find them. Even in the 1930's it was normal and expected that one steel worker would fall to his death for each floor of a building. If you fell off of your horse and had a brain injury you died. Your grieving relatives were comforted by the neighbors. It took the hard work, and even deaths, of union leaders and newspaper reporters a couple of generations to convince us that sensable safety precautions could lower the accident death toll. Ed Ed & Wendy Hauser 2994 Mittower Road Victor, MT 59875 (406) 642-9640 ranch@xxxxxxxxxxx =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Ridecamp is a service of Endurance Net, http://www.endurance.net. Information, Policy, Disclaimer: http://www.endurance.net/Ridecamp Subscribe/Unsubscribe http://www.endurance.net/ridecamp/logon.asp Ride Long and Ride Safe!! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
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