
Originally Posted by
Ixion
The original post was an excerpt of the PUBLIC press release made BY THE POLICE. It is made to the ENTIRE MEDIA - TV, all newspapers etc. It was on Stuff before it was posted here. It was already in the public domain, and I hardly think we need fear telling the police information they themselves have released.
How long do you wait until the dreadful secret can be whispered. Or do we all bury our collective heads in the sand and pretend that crashes never happen.
Look at it fromt he other side. If we are to have a blanket ban on any mention of crashing, we must also extend the same logic to injury from non motorcycle accidents, KBers who end up in hospital for non injury causes etc.
This purports to be a community. So what happens? I (hypothetically) end up in hospital (maybe from bike crash, maybe because I drop one of Mrs Ixion's fairy cakes on my toe, maybe becuse I have a stroke at the sight of my ACC levy, whatever). After a week or so, I escape. And get back onto a computer. Well, some community this was. No mention of my having grief , no good wishes , no "that's too bad". KB just ignored me. "Oh, well, yeah, some of us knew, but,y'know, we're not allowed to post about bad things. Cos it might upset people. Delicate folk, bikers".
Or, if worst came to worst, and I died - Mrs Ixion saying "Well, those KB people he thought so highly of obviously didn't give a stuff about him. Nobody even noticed or mentioned that he'd died".
Brutal fact people. Wht we do is dangerous. It can kill any one of us today, including me. If you can't hack that fact , time to hang up the helmet. Burying head in sand and pretending that crashes don't happen won't change the reality.
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