[mscuddy]

In my SCI rehab "group" last month, there were about 11 other guys there, all with paralysis due to spinal cord injury.

4 were street bike accidents,(5 if you include me), two were off-road injuries involving supercross type racing, with the rest being work related injuries (falling off roofs, scaffolds, etc).

None were auto accidents. If that is any indication of how many prople get paralyzed on bikes vs. cars, the results are pretty clear.

Over in the brain injury ward, 50% of the people were teenagers who got into car/bike wrecks. One kid got nailed by a car, and then run over while on his SV650. He was a mess.

Although some might scream "SOCIALISM!" this is a good new law. Ask anyone with a spinal cord injury.

 

[mscuddy]

Yep, I'd say that's a good idea too, since they run into bikes and cause the injury most of the time. This is the "new" way to create funds for traumatic injuries, since our private trauma wards are failing, due to a high infulx of people who don't pay the bills after services are rendered (read that non-us citizens). In my city alone, private trauma wards are closing down one after the other, the only ones left are the County facilities funded by the state.

The US is taking a page out of Canada's book in this thinking, putting the monatary onus on the user of the machine/drug/device that might lead to injury, that requires long recovery and/or medical services.

 

[mscuddy]

"That is so kafkaesque. The tax people are allowed to invent things that didn't happen!"

Or deny things that did.

..like the ahole who hit me, in the police report he said: "I was honking the horn, but he wouldn't get out of my way".

When I asked the police dept if that wasn't an admission of criminal behaviour on the SUV drivers part, the detective said "No, it was most likely a language barrier, as the guy is a hard working immigrant."

Go figure. He got a $350.00 ticket, and I got screwed for life.

 

[mscuddy]

In the peepoles republik of kalifornia you just need $10,000.00 medical liability insurance. Simce this jerk lives in a run down 1 bedroom apartment, with no real assets, I could sue him, but I would have to forgo the ten grand if I did. And even if we did get a judgement, the bozo would just go back to Usbekistan or wherever the hell he came from, and I'd be even more screwed. So we took the 10 g's and that was that, he's off the hook. But all is not lost, since I just got a new Leupold 3x9 for my HK91.