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HK

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On Mon, 4 Aug 2008 10:23:28 -0700 (PDT), wrote:

On Aug 4, 12:03 pm, 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.

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Harry, didn't you tell us that your father let you take out any boat
you wanted when you were a kid?
Here, idiot, learn something:

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

Pretty much meaningless numbers without some context. How many people played
each sport for how many hours? Do some sports tend to have far more serious
injuries than others? Is a broken spine from a trampoline counted the same as a
sprained ankle playing basketball?

They're not just "pretty much" meaningless, they are absolutely
meaningless because, as you state, they are sans context, and without
context, they're just numbers.

As you point out, a sprained ankle from playing basketball is not
serious, but a spinal injury from playing on a trampoline is serious.
10 spinal injuries outweigh 100,000 sprained ankles.

Imagine having to race a motorcycle whose welded repairs are made by
someone new to welding.