Scary...

It was an interesting day riding in the local park yesterday. Suzanne and I
started out to enjoy our freshly reopened and rerouted trails we've been
working so hard on since Isabel hit. A few minutes into the ride we meet up
with Mark; it's good to see him back on the bike after his snapping his
ankle in 2 during a night race last year. Shortly thereafter, we hear some
other guys running a chainsaw in the middle of the park. We climb through
the still closed trails to see what they're doing and to offer up some
assistance; if not now, later.

They're not working on clearing the trails; rather they are building some
log bridge stunts ala North Shore. These guys did the same thing in another
park a few months back but someone spotted it and had the park service
dismantle it. It was mildly humorous as they talked about someone had come
in and done a lot of "half-assed trail clearing" since the trails were
simply reopened and an extreme stunt wasn't built at every chance. Of course
they later realized that someone was us. I bade them farewell and good luck
with their construction; it will be kind of fun trying it when they're done.
Isabel wreaked havoc here, but on the plus side we have more North Shore
materials than we can ever use.

We continue riding for awhile; the trails definitely still need much work.
We stop for a short talk and hear someone yell. Then they do it again - and
a third time. "That sure sounds like 'help' and seems to be coming from the
general direction of the guys building the stunts". We cut through the
woods (I'm expecting one of the guys had a tree fall on him or something)
and instead hear someone say "over here" from a side trail.

We arrive to find a lone young biker covered in blood. He had been riding
without a helmet and hit his head on a low tree. He tore a huge gash in his
head and was starting to freak out because he wasn't real sure where he was.
By the time we got to him it had pretty much stopped bleeding on it's own.
He seemed a lot more calm now that help was there who knew the way out, so
we carefully walked him out to the parking lot (which just happens to be
directly across the street from a hospital). He thanked us and left, and
hopefully heeded our advice to drive across the street to the ER.

We go back to try to find where he hit his head but to no avail.

Make sure you wear those helmets, kids!

"John Harlow" wrote in message
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Make sure you wear those helmets, kids!

Ouch!
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"John Harlow" wrote in message
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We arrive to find a lone young biker covered in blood. He had been riding
without a helmet and hit his head on a low tree. He tore a huge gash in
his
head

Make sure you wear those helmets, kids!

Glad the kid was OK (sorta). I bet he'll think twice before leaving the
helmet at home again.

Twice in the past year, my wife has avoided potentially serious head injury
by wearing a helmet. (She's accident prone, I guess.) My sister says she'd
probably be dead or in a coma now if she hadn't been wearing her helmet
during a ~40 MPH crash on a hairpin turn on a Marin County highway a few
years ago.

-=B=-

"B. Sanders" wrote in message news:JLOgb.704596$Ho3.155667@sccrnsc03...
"John Harlow" wrote in message
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We arrive to find a lone young biker covered in blood. He had been riding
without a helmet and hit his head on a low tree. He tore a huge gash in
his
head

Make sure you wear those helmets, kids!

Glad the kid was OK (sorta).

So barry bargain, you're only "sorta" glad the kid was ok? What a punk.

JD

We arrive to find a lone young biker covered in blood. He had been
riding
without a helmet and hit his head on a low tree. He tore a huge gash
in
his
head

Make sure you wear those helmets, kids!

Glad the kid was OK (sorta).

So barry bargain, you're only "sorta" glad the kid was ok? What a punk.

I believe he meant the *kid* was "sorta OK".

Poor thing'll definitely have a permanent reminder of the event.

"John Harlow" wrote in message
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We arrive to find a lone young biker covered in blood. He had been
riding
without a helmet and hit his head on a low tree. He tore a huge
gash
in
his
head

Make sure you wear those helmets, kids!

Glad the kid was OK (sorta).

So barry bargain, you're only "sorta" glad the kid was ok? What a punk.

Go kick your dog again, loser.

I believe he meant the *kid* was "sorta OK".

Exactly. I guess with this knuckledragging crowd of high school dropouts
I'll have to use easier words and be more explicit. A-MB translation: "I
talk E Z R 4 U, OK d00dz?"

Poor thing'll definitely have a permanent reminder of the event.

Definitely. It's hard to get an idea of the level of trauma from your
description; but if he was disoriented, I guess there was a possibility of
concussion. I hope he took your advice and went to the ER.

I hope that's the last time you have to deal with something like that.

-=B=-

"Bargainboy" wrote in message news:TOXgb.705449$YN5.573358@sccrnsc01...
Glad the kid was OK (sorta).

So barry bargain, you're only "sorta" glad the kid was ok? What a punk.

Go kick your dog again, loser.

Now you advocate animal abuse. Who's the loser here, barry bargain?

JD