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Recently my cousin's head was run over by a car. This is what's left of her helmet. My cousin completely survived because of this helmet. Please think of this before riding a bike without a helmet next time!

July 29, 2008 from twhirl - Comment - Like - Share

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I've ridden only once without a helmet in as long as I can remember. Felt vulnerable! - Adam Loving from StumbleRead

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It's true. They work. - Andrew Feinberg

wow... that's amazing. how old is your cousin jesse? - dave mcclure

dave, my cousin's 30, just 1 year younger than me - Jesse Stay from twhirl

You can read her story, in her own words here. I'm inspired: http://thetopotheworld.blogspot.com/ - Jesse Stay from twhirl

This happened to a friend of mine at the beginning of the month. He didn't do so good in the accident, but the helmet obviously saved his life. Thankfully is on his way home tomorrow: http://www.caringbridge.org/visit... - Steve Lacey

I used to ride my bike without the helmet even though it is mandatory in Chennai, India. But after reading this I am not even going to the next street in my bike without helmet. - Sudar

I never wear a helmet. When hearing things like this, I always think of this article.http://news.bbc.co.uk/1.... In the Netherlands no one wears a helmet. It seems safe to me. - Peter Stuifzand

I was hit while riding to work in summer 2006 & did not want anyone to touch my helmet at all costs. If my brain was scrambled, I did not want anyone to touch my egg:) I highly recommend a helmet especially if you think you will not need one! Mine was almost the same color too & manufacturer, but there is no conspiracy there:) - Roney Smith

Bicyclists/motorcyclists that don't wear helmets are better called future organ donors - Brian Sullivan

Thanks for sharing. I ride often at traffic time between cars. always wear my helmet...itsg good to know that It does work :) - jonathan from twhirl

that's incredible... - Jamie Allen from twhirl

Wow, glad to hear your friend is doing well after that. I agree, helmets save lives. Regardless, I've many intentional close-calls by drivers who don't want to share the road. Unfortunately, this is the common attitude where I live (southern US). - pete

we wear helmets for everything: mtb, snowboarding, wakeboarding, skateboarding & even surfing - skulls are fragile why not put a protective layer around it (i also try real hard to not ride on streets - a high percentage of drivers are oblivious to bike riders)... - mike "glemak" dunn

I always ride in my helmet and stay to bike lanes as much as possible. Nice to know the safety tools work. Now, if I can just avoid that NYPD cop with a penchant for knocking people off their bikes. Hopefully, he won't transfer to LAPD. - Jason Toney

Peter Stuifzand, my cousin would be dead if she did not wear her helmet. That article is BS. Wear your helmet! - Jesse Stay from twhirl

Point blank. You are a moron if you ride without a helmet. Sorry, but that's true and you're just going to play into Darwinian theory should you continue to ride without one. Any 'real' cyclist (e.g - you've been hit by a car - and yes, I have been) will tell you this without reservation. Helmets work without a doubt. - AJ Kohn

I survived a nasty motorcycle crash in my youth and would also be dead without that helmet - which cracked in 2 like an egg (that would have been my head, as the nurse aptly put it!). - Susan Beebe

A friend who's a cop refers to motorcycles as donorcycles whenever she sees someone riding without a helmet. I figure that applies for bicycles, too. - ha3rvey (Ho)^3

I was on the way to work Monday morning while it was raining, when the third car in front of me spun out of control and flipped twice into a ditch. When I pulled over to help her out she was just fine. She only had a scratch on her left shoulder from the broken window and was not hurt anywhere else. THE REASON: She was wearing her seat belt. It's nice to hear that these devices are actually helping us! - David Cook

Awesome. I ride my bike to work everyday and I see a lot of people with no helmets on. I don't know how they do it. - Clint Ecker

Wow! I wear mine! Didn't for years - I was lucky I guess. Thanks for posting that! - matthew hunt

OMG... Jesse, do you have a link other than here on FF? I have friends whose kids refuse to wear theirs, and seeing this may help. - Cyndy

Cyndy why not just link here - http://friendfeed.com/e... - Brian Sullivan

Dutch don't wear helmets and they don't get killed by cars http://www.ski-epic.com/amsterd.... - Peter Stuifzand

Actually they do get killed by cars. But culturally they are not inclined to wear helmets. - Brian Sullivan

Cyndy, with this being dug out of the grave, I just noticed your question. That particular picture is from my cousin's blog here: http://thetopotheworld.blogspot.com/2008... You can read the full story here: http://thetopotheworld.blogspot.com/2008... Search for "run over by car" and you can read about her entire ordeal. - Jesse Stay

My brother would not be alive today if he did not wear his helmet while riding his motorcycle; please wear a helmet! - Sandra

man - Shey, Jamaican of FF

If it's nice enough to ride, I probably won't be bothering with the human-powered bike any longer. I always wear a helmet on my gas-powered bike. - MiniMage TKDteacher of FF

As long as we won't have mountains, we Dutch will not wear those things. Otherwise we won't be able to recognise the tourists on bikes. - Ton Zijp

Thanks for sharing - I had a mishap with a car, wasn't wearing a helmet at the time, was lucky. If they don't see you, it doesn't matter either way. Wear the helmet! - Rick Bucich

This isn't as extreme as this but when I fell off my bike onto a sidewalk and broke my arm, I thought I was fine for a while. Later, my dad noticed that the whole front of my helmet was all scratched up and the visor in front was torn off! I realized that if I wasn't wearing my helmet on the 2 minute trip down the road, I probably wouldn't be typing this comment right now! Not that I'd be dead but I would have suffered some head damage, limiting my ability to do most things. - Kevin Lyons

Helmets for cyclists are mandatory in Australia. Still gives me the shudders when I'm travelling and see bareheaded bicyclists on the roads. - Kate Foy

Mona Nomura

FriendFeed? This is me. - http://friendfeed.com/e...

September 16, 2008 - Comment - Like - Share

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what a lovely couple - break out the USB rings! :) - WorldofHiglet

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@WoH - anna sauce

thats totally me right now. - Admiral Anika

TOTAL Night crew status omg HAHAHAHA - Mona Nomura

LMFAO!!! I do that with my laptop in the bed - Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah

I.do.that. I bought an Asus EEE just to do that. *frowns, sighs, hangs head, turns around and walks into the distance* - Kamath (नमः)

genius! ... I'm definitely gonna try this tonight! - Jay

I have multiple laptops that I lay on the bed and work with. - Uncle CW™

hahaha - Kyle Lacy

oh goodness I just really looked at this picture. it so fits me right now becuase i am trying to stay awake until the season premiere of House - R. Ferguson

how can I get my setup like so? - Justin Korn

22inch screen rotated to portrait ---> - Johnny Worthington

You know, if you are looking at your monitor rotated clockwise and look at this, it looks normal :) - Justin Korn

HAHHHAHAHAHA Jason, I'm on a conference call and LAUGHED OUT LOUD! - Mona Nomura

@Jason hilarious! - anna sauce

Painfully true - Majento

You have to tell me.. is FriendFeed as good as everyone says in bed? :P - Tim Hoeck

I don't think Mona is the kiss and tell type... - WorldofHiglet

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Why not do that with an iPhone or something? - Rishabh Mishra (p248)

Because it wouldn't be as funny! - Mona Nomura

iPhone won't work in this application anyway: it keeps rotating the screen...don't ask me why I know that.... - Rob Michael (Atmos Trio)

That is me except with the blanket pulled over my head and iphone in hand when I'm supposed to be sleeping! - Violet Mae Lim

That is beautiful! (I was doing this last night but on my back with the computer on my tummy) - Martha

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this is a real photo of every friendfeed user :)) - Alooche

you really should have a flat-panel mounted on the wall. - shaun mclane

Scott - jealous - I want 8 gb of memory - Brent - Loving Life

I would have used keyboard as pillow! :-) - Rohit Shah

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man, this is so old - amazing! :) September time...imagine someone replying to a tweet that long ago. #WHYILOVEFRIENDFEED - Zee.

This is total win. But an aside: how is that pillow thingy, or anything else, _that_ much fuchsia?! - Micah Wittman

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Robert Scoble

Gist is very cool and has a lot of news coming "soon." Send the CEO a message that they need to add friendfeed DMs: http://friendfeed.com/tamccann

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http://www.gist.com/index.html - Robert Scoble

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If you want an invite, just say you are a friend of mine. :-) - Robert Scoble

"Gist is currently down..." - phil baumann

phil: exactly. They are upgrading their servers with some new stuff coming over next day. Stay tuned for more! - Robert Scoble

What does gist.com offer? - Mitch

OK, thanks (thought you shut them down :) - phil baumann

I've used Gist for a little while. I like it but it needs some updating to integrate more services and make it a little easier to manage contacts. - Brandon Titus

Robert: Have you ever tried Gist?Should I create an account? - Rafael

Signed-up for the beta back in September... nothing since, they sent a survey i couldn't fill as they sent no invite, odd. - Majento

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Robert: Ok, no problem. Thanks! Let me ask you, what's the best feature in Gist? - Rafael

Gist.com is up if you want to sign up. If you take the survey, you have a much better chance of getting into the beta http://www.surveymonkey.com/s... - T.A. McCann

Brandon, we are shipping a bunch of new features very soon and we will support more services. Stand by for the alert email to beta users and we look forward to your feedback - T.A. McCann

Looks interesting....as a developer though I thought you meant gist.github.com, a pastebin service offered by github, a source control hosting company. - Travis B. Hartwell

Oh, this has nothing to do with GitHub. - Raphael, Raphael

Thanks T.A., looking forward to the new features! In the meantime, get the rest of these friends of Scoble in! :P (I'm sure you're not busy enough as it is) - Brandon Titus

Christopher Sacca

Pick the Perp - http://picktheperp.com/

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Not sure how in appropriate this is, but I am actually not good at it. I went 8 for 25. What does this say? Because I went higher than 20% my stereotypes are accurate? Unclear what to think. Thoughts? - Christopher Sacca from Bookmarklet

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I did better than expected -- 19 correct. You have to look at their eyes. - Trish R

I think they try to trick you with stereotypes. I chose incorrectly until I picked the one least likely to fit what I expected. Except for the concealed weapon charge by the guy in the hunting jacket, he's priceless! - Jess

I suck at this - BEX

I did horribly. Several times, though, my first thought was correct and then I second guessed myself wrong. - Laura Norvig

I'm four for eight so far. I like to think it's from all those episodes of "Cops" I watched. - Matt Cutts

Yeah, I can't get any of these. - Jordan Hofker

What is Utter Forged Instrument? - Jason

I have no idea, but I know one thing... I totally suck at this! :) 2 of 20... very bad. - Eugene Huo

That was pretty rough. I couldn't get above 30%. Big surprise -- turns out it's hard to determine guilt based on appearance :) - Joel Webber

Reminds me of the alllooksame quiz: http://alllooksame.com/ - Ray Cromwell

Daniel Gasienica

Google container data center tour - http://www.youtube.com/watch...

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Stuart Maxwell

Boks - A Visual Grid Editor - http://toki-woki.net/p/Boks/

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