Originally Posted by
ItsJustMe
I've noticed that people at work seem to want to tell me about every person on a bike that gets killed within 1000 miles of here, but none of them seem to think that 100 times that many people getting killed in car accidents is in any way relevant.
Seriously, it reminds me of watching the news to find out where crime is happening.
If you watch the news, the you'll find that they only very rarely discuss shootings in the actual ghetto. In the part of the city where it happens all the time, it's not "news".
But in the part of the city that's decent, they'll report every shooting that happens. It only happens once every couple of months, so it's "news". If it happens in the "good" party of the city, damn, they're all over it every time.
For every cyclist killed, there's like 100 drivers. It's not a fair comparison, because obviously there's way more drivers on the road than bikers, but the news reporting gives a horribly skewed idea of the #'s.