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Philo wrote:

RideYourRide wrote:When he died he was alive. ....., he didn't get cancer from a computer screen.

Huh?

I believe the implication is that it's better to die tragically doing something you love than it is to waste away day after day staring at a computer (or doing something equally monotonous).

um thanks evel

jonnythan wrote:

Philo wrote:

RideYourRide wrote:When he died he was alive. ....., he didn't get cancer from a computer screen.

Huh?

I believe the implication is that it's better to die tragically doing something you love than it is to waste away day after day staring at a computer (or doing something equally monotonous).

even though its the same thing. I enjoy playing video games on my computer just like I enjoy going for bike rides. If I die playing games on my computer ill die a happy man.

*edit btw you dont get cancer from a computer screen.

ofblong wrote:

BugCountry wrote:Everyone deserves death, which is why we all die. I thought of a whole bunch of things I could have said criticizing what he did but I have no right to judge what he did because I have done a whole host of incredibly foolish things myself. I deserved to die many, many times for some of the stunts I pulled driving my hot rod and my truck which is why I consider myself utterly blessed that I am still alive today. Lesson learned.

But did you do those things on a public road or did you do those things on enclosed areas designed for that type of thing?

My point exactly. I wouldn't have been nearly as critical had it endangered only the life of the stunting motorcyclist.

KingRobb wrote:um thanks evel

Your are quite welcome!

I won't lie. I'm afraid to fall down and being injured but what scares me more is the bills that I'll be getting after if my bike got wrecked . I have a pure joy just going 25 mph. I love to ride and I'll be sick not being able to ride weeks or monthes even. I give credit to those who do it because I sure can't. Parts on your bike is not cheap!!! I think in a control enviroment like race track or something like that would be okay because you're not dangering others but on public road going 80mph wheelie? you've got lots of guts but no brain. I guess you can say at least he died doing what he loved!

Jadien wrote:C'mon now folks.....!

Let's have some respect for the dead. Sure he was doing something dumb; stunting on a public road. But, it sounds like he didn't come into contact with anyone, so that's not what caused him to crash.

We can't go around calling people idiots because they passed away doing something they loved to do that is dangerous. Otherwise, when one of us passes away going too hot in a twisty or getting hit by a SUV while touring; we give non-riders the right to call us idiots. I don't believe that would be OK by any of us.

Let's not make fun of a kid who was guilty of being a kid........

Why? I could never understand the habit of not talking bad about the dead, especially those that died because of their own stupidity and actions.

If some pulls a bone headed stunt and gets injured, most of us would simply say "What a f'ing moron, stupid bugger was begging for it." But that same fool happens to die instead of just getting injured, we are suppose to say "Oh, the poor guy." Bugger that, that joker and others before him simply paid the price for their own stupidity and should not be lionized or pitied.

Riding is dodgy enough as it is with homicidal cagers aiming at ya, there's really no need to decrease your odds by stunting on public road or highway.

Last year while I was driving my car home from work, I saw a
motorcycle doing a wheelie in the speed lane at about 70 mph.
I love riding bikes, but I couldn't believe what I saw.
Also last year, I heard of a biker doing a wheelie down a main
street and a lady drove out of a side street and killed him.

I always feel sad when something like this happens. And I always feel knotted up inside when I read the kind of I'm-OK-Jack, Darwin Awards response it generates.

I'm with you, Jadien, no-one deserves to die.

Whoever this guy was, for sure he was a lot more than someone who did wheelies at 80mph. Yes, I think doing something like that is dangerous and maybe thoughtless as well. But a hell of a lot more than a guy who did wheelies died out there. And who knows what the guy would have done or turned out to be had he lived? We all need time to learn.

In any case, I can live with dangerous behaviour - who rides a bike because they want to be safe? Thoughtlessness and selfishness should be criticised. But who's never been guilty of those things? I can't say that I have, that's for certain.

A lot of enthusiasm for life often goes with stupidity. Who'd want to live without enthusiasm? Give me enthusiasm over heavy-handed moralising any day.