Re: Klickitat Ride Incident

["Karen Lininger" <khavera@hotmail.com>]

I am really sorry to hear that this person was left alone and passed by 
as riders too concerned with their own "winning" status could be 
concerned for a fellow rider.  It is a shameful look at our attitudes in 
this age of "me" that we have forgotten the ol' Golden Rule out 
there......."Do unto others as you would have them do unto you".  Having 
worked in various capacities in emergency medicine (LPN, EMT, and EMT-P) 
the potential for this person to have had a serious and even 
life-threatening head injury was more than substantial with the 
mechanism of injury he sustained.  I am appalled at the lack of care 
and/or concern by fellow riders out there and pray that this incident 
may never repeat itself again......for perhaps the next time it may be 
one of those who rode past this person and did nothing to help him.  
Hopefully this has been a hard lesson for all Riders to learn from along 
with changing the attitude that "winning is everything".

Karen Lininger
Bald Hills, Washington
Khaver@Hotmail.com

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