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XMAS SLAY THAT THE RICH GO FOR(confused SUV alert)
Socialist Worker ^
| 12-20-2003
| Socialist Worker
Posted on 12/23/2003 7:22:55 PM PST by jrushing
Inside the system
Xmas slay that the rich go for
THE BIG Sports Utility Vehicles (SUVs) favoured by the rich are twice as likely to kill pedestrians as a normal car in an accident.
The finding comes in the latest edition of the authoritative journal Accident Analysis and Prevention it is based on systematic research in the US headed by engineer Clay Gabler.
SUVs have become a fashion fad among the rich for their "country estate" connotations. Many have a kind of "bull bar" grill on the front which serves no other purpose than to make it more likely someone hit by the vehicle will be killed.
Clay Gabler explains SUVs "are heavier, stiffer and geometrically more blunt than passenger cars and pose a dramatically different type of threat to pedestrians. The probability of serious head and thoracic [chest] injury is substantially greater than with a car."
As cars are lower in profile they tend to cause leg injuries when they hit people at lower speeds. These are less likely to kill than head injuries.
"One way to reduce head injuries from SUVs", says Gabler, "would be to replace the blunt front end with a sloping, more aerodynamic one, making them more car-like. But this won't be popular with SUV buyers, who like their rugged off-road look."
We wonder what New Labour will put first-public safety or the dangerous lifestyle choice of its rich friends
TOPICS: Editorial
KEYWORDS: kill; pedestrians; socialists; suv
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THE BIG Sports Utility Vehicles (SUVs) favoured by the rich are twice as likely to kill pedestrians as a normal car in an accidentOK, all of you rich SUV people who are twice as likely to kill pedestrians with your "Bull Bar"!
A safe way would be-
making them more car-like. But this won't be popular with SUV buyers.
You SUV people are so like greedy Capitalists!
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posted on
12/23/2003 7:22:55 PM PST
by
jrushing
To: jrushing
You SUV people are so like greedy Capitalists!
Oops, I left off the /sarcasm> tag. (no flames please)
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posted on
12/23/2003 7:35:44 PM PST
by
jrushing
To: jrushing
"Yo, comrade! What happened to Ivan?"
"Hit by a Hummer."
"Bummer!"
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posted on
12/23/2003 7:37:17 PM PST
by
ZOOKER
To: jrushing
"THE BIG Sports Utility Vehicles (SUVs) favoured by the rich are twice as likely to kill pedestrians as a normal car in an accident." Classic! Right out of the socialists handbook! Pit the middle class against the poor (rich people don't drive SUVs, the middle class do). The rich have limos, private jets, and yachts.
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posted on
12/23/2003 7:42:11 PM PST
by
Bob Mc
To: jrushing
Socialism could not exist without "the rich".
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posted on
12/23/2003 7:43:01 PM PST
by
DBrow
To: Bob Mc
No mention of the danger of pick-up trucks? Pure green jealously fuels leftist politics.
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posted on
12/23/2003 7:49:02 PM PST
by
Reeses
To: jrushing
Ya know, I never liked SUVs much, but the Left's collective decision to make them the target of an authoritarian demonization campaign just might influence me to change my mind.
What would an SUV be without a few well-chosen custom features? I would fit mine not just will bullbars but with fender-mounted peasant-sighting staffs, optional running boards with built-in jackboot scrapers, and those cool flamethrower things they have in South Africa for deterring carjackers.
My only concession to the Socialist milieu would be to display the Works of Comrade Kalashnikov in the optional rifle-rack. I would paint VW bug and hippy silhouettes on the driver's door as the mileage accumulated.
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posted on
12/23/2003 7:56:55 PM PST
by
atomic conspiracy
( Progressives: Vote Green! Nader/Kaczynski '04!)
To: jrushing
Just DAMN !!!
I guess this includes my old 1985 K-5, which is big booted and up in the air with lifts for crawling over such obstacles. But I never knew I was rich, wish someone would keep me updated on my status by how big of a 4 WD I drive?
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posted on
12/23/2003 7:58:14 PM PST
by
Ursus arctos horribilis
("It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees!" Emiliano Zapata 1879-1919)
To: jrushing
heavier, stiffer and geometrically more blunt than passenger cars Cool, I'm sold.
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posted on
12/23/2003 7:59:38 PM PST
by
socal_parrot
(Howard Dean...In your guts, you know he's nuts.)
To: jrushing
This is nothing! Wait till next year's crazy fad entertainment for the rich and corrupt hits the tabloids: "Stomping Puppies and Kittens with Heavy Hobnail Boots!" Oh, what awful, disgusting things these rich elitist Capitalists are capable of!
To: socal_parrot
"heavier, stiffer and geometrically more blunt than passenger cars" In other words, typical passenger cars are lighter, weaker, prone to damage easier, and more likely to injure or kill the occupants.
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posted on
12/23/2003 8:06:28 PM PST
by
Bob Mc
To: jrushing
"SUVs have become a fashion fad among the rich for their "country estate" connotations." Another often repeated lie of the socialists. Rich people have limos, private jets and yachts. The middle class drive SUVs.
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posted on
12/23/2003 8:08:18 PM PST
by
Bob Mc
To: Ursus arctos horribilis
My brother informed me a while ago that '97 Chevy Blazers are only about $5K on the used market. When I asked him why they're so cheap, he said: "Because it has a bowtie on it".
I'm sure that even the $5K Chevy Blazer will do a fine job of killing pedestrians........
To: jrushing
Here you go:
Run for your lives, Bolshevik whiners!
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posted on
12/23/2003 8:14:24 PM PST
by
atomic conspiracy
( Progressives: Vote Green! Nader/Kaczynski '04!)
To: atomic conspiracy
With that yellow paintjob, it looks like a school bus.
To: jrushing
Maybe the great moral authority of the Socialist Worker will persuade and I go instead for some ideologically correct socialist transportation:
(Soviet era Zil limousine carrying Fidel Castro and Jimmy Carter from Jose Marti airport during Carter's recent visit to Cuba.)
(another noted socialist with an earlier model Zil)
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posted on
12/23/2003 8:35:28 PM PST
by
atomic conspiracy
( Progressives: Vote Green! Nader/Kaczynski '04!)
To: jrushing
Your "slay" should be sleigh; but otherwise, this piece of drivel slays me.
To: jrushing
THE BIG Sports Utility Vehicles (SUVs) favoured by the rich are twice as likely to kill pedestrians as a normal car in an accidentYeah! Only State tanks are supposed to kill the proles in "accidents."
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posted on
12/23/2003 8:58:54 PM PST
by
Paul Atreides
(Is it really so difficult to post the entire article?)
To: jrushing
I guess socialists prefer sacrifice of their earnings to the state so to be poor pedestrians over being affluent enough to afford a SUV. So is my understanding of this article inferring that Socialists pedestrians are being unfairly endangered by SUV owners? The bull bar has a purpose. It smashes those stupid people who write this kind of class warfare garbage!
To: Paul Atreides
These big Socialist monsters are SUV killers. Did you know that the fares collected only cover 20 percent of the operating costs, the rest a gift from working class families? It really costs $15 to ride the bus instead of $3 to drive yourself to work, not to mention all that global warming soot.
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posted on
12/23/2003 9:10:10 PM PST
by
Reeses
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