JimH wrote:
On Aug 4, 3:58 pm, wrote:
On Aug 4, 3:56 pm, wrote:



On Aug 4, 3:46 pm, JimH wrote:
On Aug 4, 1:27 pm, wrote:
On Aug 4, 12:45 pm, hk wrote:
wrote:
On Aug 4, 12:20 pm, "Reginald P. Smithers III, Esq."
wrote:
hk wrote:
Eisboch wrote:
"hk" wrote in message
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In my opinion and in the opinion of many, any adult who allows small
children to race motorcycles is encouraging reckless endangerment and
more, and under the right circumstances, child abuse charges could be
brought.
How about organized youth football, soccer, baseball, hockey or
golf? All have inherent danger of injuries. With the proper
equipment, supervision, and correctly sized dirt bike, I am not sure
it's any more dangerous than the other activities I mentioned.
Eisboch
There's a possibility of injury with many sports activities, of course,
but adding in the element of motorization, speed, gasoline, vehicles
that might weigh several hundred pounds, and bumpy courses, and the
resulting injuries can be very serious.
I don't believe "tackle" football should be played until high school. In
all the years I played "organized" baseball in New Haven, I never saw a
serious injury, and that includes Little League, Pony League, Babe Ruth
League and Industrial League. Lots of bumps and bruises, strained
muscles, et cetera, but no one was knocked unconscious or suffered a
debilitating spinal column injury.
Little kids have no business running motorized vehicles.
What about the stories of you operating a motorized jon boat at the age
of 6?
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Well, seeing how he acts, I am sure any trained professional would
wonder if that was the only type of abuse wafa suffered as a child..
The kind of hate he spews suggests he lost trust in humanity long ago.
The fact is, Activists are activists. Wafa is living proof that
especially liberal activists have little problem letting emotion and
agenda get in the way of integerity or decency. As to Donnies post,
the emotionally driven statements are clear proof that although
educated, they are activists. Probably looking at the sport from one
point of view. Most of them probably had their opinions before the
study, or had it fed to them by the govt that runs the fast failing
medical system up there. On to the next grant, and another easy
target. Geeze this job is so hard...
Do you actually read any of the documents you say you read? That report
Don cited was from a group of pediatric surgeons. Do you even know what
a pediatric surgeon does?
"Emotionally driven statements..." from pediatric surgeons, on the
subject of minimizing the number of kids they have to try to repair.
Yeah, to someone like you, that's "emotionally driven liberal activism."
You probably are a smoker or ex smoker, too, right? Were you resentful
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Pssst, hey idiot, the article was about one type of equipment, and one
only. Nothing about any other sport or activity, so what do you
compare it to?
Here, learn something, instead of knee jerking a response just to try
and get someone to notice your pathetic ass.
Tonino used data from the U.S. Consumer Produce Safety Commission on
injuries treated in emergency rooms.
The Top 15:
Basketball: 512,213
Bicycling: 485,669
Football: 418,260
Soccer: 174,686
Baseball: 155,898
Skateboards: 112,544
Trampolines: 108,029
Softball: 106,884
Swimming/Diving: 82,354
Horseback riding: 73,576
Weightlifting: 65,716
Volleyball: 52,091
Golf: 47,360
Roller skating: 35,003
Wrestling: 33,734
What age group is considered in the report you quoted? Can you
provide a link?
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Here is one from the Consumer Products Safety Commission for 4 wheel
ATV's (note table 4):
http://www.cpsc.gov/LIBRARY/atv99.pdf
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http://pediatrics.aappublications.or...full/120/1/134
OBJECTIVES. The goals were to describe the epidemiological features of
pediatric nonautomobile motorized vehicle-related injuries sustained
between 1990 and 2003 and to compare all-terrain vehicle-related
injuries with other types of nonautomobile motorized vehicle-related
injuries.
METHODS. An analysis of nationally representative pediatric
nonautomobile motorized vehicle-related injury data from the US
Consumer Product Safety Commission National Electronic Injury
Surveillance System was performed.
RESULTS. Nationally, an estimated 1203800 children were treated in
hospital emergency departments for nonautomobile motorized vehicle-
related injuries between 1990 and 2003. These children had a mean age
of 12.7 years (range: 1 month to 19 years), and 77.0% were male. The
majority of injuries were associated with all-terrain vehicles
(44.8%), 2-wheeled off-road vehicles (21.1%), and go-carts/buggies
(13.7%). The most common diagnoses were contusions/abrasions (28.3%),
fractures (24.2%), and lacerations (20.0%). Overall, the number of
injuries increased 86% from 70500 injuries in 1990 to 130900 injuries
in 2003. The numbers of all-terrain vehicle-related, 2-wheeled off-
road vehicle-related, 2-wheeled on-road vehicle-related, and go-cart/
buggy-related injuries all increased significantly from 1990 to 2003.
There were greater proportions of all-terrain vehicle-associated
injuries among children ™16 years of age (48.0%) and children 12 to 15
years of age (46.6%) than among children 12 years of age (40.3%).
Conversely, the proportion of other nonautomobile motorized vehicle-
related injuries among children 12 years of age (47.2%) was greater
than that among children 12 to 15 years of age (30.3%) and children
™16 years of age (23.0%).
CONCLUSIONS. Although most public health and legislative attention to
date has been focused on all-terrain vehicles, parents, children, and
public officials should be educated about the injury risk that all
types of nonautomobile motorized vehicles pose to children.
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http://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retri...2234680214262X
Background/Purpose: Despite statements by the American Academy of
Pediatrics (AAP) and the US Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC)
against the use of all-terrain vehicles (ATVs) by children under the
age of 16 years, nearly half of ATV-related injuries and over 35% of
all ATV-related deaths continue to occur in this age group.
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You have you head in your ass or else don't know what to hell you are
talking about.
How many of those were the result of being at a sanctioned track,
with
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They are just trolling, I answered Bill, as he is not a liar and is
capable of honest debate...

I gave you links. Go ahead and keep you head in the sand Scotty.


That would require reading and understanding. It ain't gonna happen.

Some parents help their kids have fun with traditional sports but expend
a lot more time and energy helping their kids excel in school so they
have a better chance of doing something with their lives.