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helmets for safety

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-eight years and a million words

Tokyo, 2008.11.30

I know this cyclist who goes about Tokyo without a helmet. I called him on it, told him it was nuts.

He told me about the time he was knocked off his bike by a motorist and woke up in a ditch with a splitting headache. He'd had a skull fracture and his face was pretty badly cut up from where his glasses had broken. He came to thinking he'd died.

A helmet had saved him, though.

I guess some things can't be explained until you've been through them.

rand()m quote

No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man.

—Heraclitus