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Non-Tech : RIDE Snowboards (RIDE) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: J.J. Ott who wrote (25)	11/4/1997 12:30:00 PM
From: Bilow	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 91

I thought of it spontaneously while talking to a 9-year old about snowboarding. It had that ring of the sort of thing that would circulate amongst youngsters. The kid I told it too certainly liked it. (Children like stories with more sex and violence then we adults usually allow them to read. That's why they don't read as much as they used to. Boys would read enough to ruin their eye sight if you just gave them copies of "The Enforcer" Playboy, and Sports Illustrated. Girls have similar interests, but more sex, less violence. They would wear their eyes out on Teen Romance novels etc.) True enough up here guys paralyze themselves while boarding. The most recent occurence was made famous when the doctor who first patched the poor boy up wouldn't accept government aid. The kid (about 19) didn't have insurance, and ended up being sued for medical costs. It made the local paper front page. Seems the doctor wouldn't accept medicare or medicaid or whatever on principle. All in all, it was not a pretty picture. I think that kids have a certain incorrect belief in their immortality, and they need stories like this to remind them of the consequences of error. Hey! It beats evolution! -- Carl