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This isn't funny. It is a reminder about your own mortality. Car guys, don't dismiss this by saying "Well, sucks for him, glad I drive a car, motorcycles are so unsafe". Most of you will cite "Well, I heard of a biker dying another day" or "My friends neighbor died of a bike crash". Well, you can die just as easily in a car if the factors are stacked against you. I've had 4 people I knew, 3 pretty well and one not so well, die in 4 seperate car crashes, but you don't hear me yelling everytime a crash picture comes up "Hyuk, hyuk, cars are so dangerous, why would anyone want one?"
And to to whomever said "That's another reason why I don't ride bikes... no protection"... that bike was supossed to have been going pretty damn fast. If you were a car, your car would implode around you and give you a nice metal coffin instead of leaving you strewn about the roadway. There are people who ride their bikes all their life without an injury, and there are kids who get killed in the first 6 months of having their liscense. It can happen either way.
Bikes are not as safe as cars due to a lack of protection, but there are grisly crashes either way. Not many bikers get trapped in their bike and get burned alive. Not many bikers take their kids out with them. Either way, if stuff like this disturbs you that much, stay the fuck out of cars and walk. And hope you don't have to walk near a road, because pedestrians get hit on a daily basis .
I swear, motorcycles have such a negative connotation here in the United States and nothing is as safe as cars. Nevermind the fact that the rest of the world has so many more bikes than cars its ridiculous.
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