my 2 cents [MR] Frightening news

[Ray Cornish]

Well said Melchoir....

To add my additional 1 cents worth, sense most of my sentiment has been 
covered before...  I think an important question was who is going to 
determine what is dangerous activity and not.  Though I have not looked 
this up, but I strongly suspect that statistically there are a far greater 
number of people injured in their automobiles on the way to and from work 
then what occurs on all SCA event fields in any given year.

I will give as an example, combining both equestrian and sca at the recent 
war in the gulf I know of 3, maybe 4 injuries that were suffered in those 
fields during the week.  I think that there may have been one that had a 
person taken off sight in an ambulance which probably resulted in some 
medical expenses.  In the 2 weeks that I have been at home, during my daily 
commute I have seen numerous accidents with vehicles and police officers 
present and at least 3 of those had an ambulance present.  Now as I was 
just passing I don't know how many were taken to the hospital, but I also 
don't know how many of those were cases where the paramedics were still in 
route, as I was just passing by.  And bear in mind, the very fact that the 
ambulance was there results in an expense incurred.

Just my thoughts on such a silly idea when put in context.

Raynold