Originally Posted by
spare_wheel
motorists kill ~34,000 people a year and you rant about ninja bikers and salmon? Since you are able to concoct statistics from thin air perhaps you would care to estimate how many people ninja or salmon kill each year.
Bluntly -
I think ninja kill themselves. Putting on dark clothes and sailing unlit into nighttime traffic is just playing Russian roulette.
Over in Advocacy, there is a thread about a ninja maybe-salmon who was killed on a dark section of road in San Antonio. He was wearing dark clothes, had no lights, was riding in the middle of the traffic lane, even though there were wide shoulders, and (people are saying, not sure about this myself) was riding against traffic. A lady in a sedan came along at 50 mph, the normal speed there, and hit him. Instant death.
Who killed that ninja maybe-salmon? He did it to himself. Can anyone really be surprised? I feel the same way when I see one of our local ninja, materializing from nowhere on a dark rainy night, flashing through the jerking beam of swerving headlights: if he (it is usually a he) dies someday, it'll be a suicide.