and you definitely aren't made of steel.
Yes you ar! The gay looking young man in tight bicycle shorts. You suddenly cut into my lane this morning round Monkey Crescent! Ya ya, you signalled by waving your right hand. But you cut into my lane from the pedestrain pathway ok! Since when the pedestrian path become part of the road? Do you see cars driving onto the foot path???
And you, the ah pek in singlet. You suddenly cycle across the zebra crossing just while I was accelerating to move off. How the hell you expect me to see you when you chiong at such a high speed and behind a big tree somemore???
And the two of you! You all not wearing helmets. You think Singapore road very safe isit? Better go check the statistics on how many road accidents there are every year. Why the rest of the developed world got law say must wear helmet then singapore don't have? All the ah peks just chiong here and there in their bi-ci-ker, sometimes long pang their grandchildren, all ne'er wear helmet. Then these cyclist suka suka change from pedestrian to road user then back to pedestrian like Transformer like tat ar???? Wah lui hiam hor!
Head Injuries
Maybe you dunno, but head injury is very dangerous and potentially fatal. Almost 100% of persons with severe head injury and as many as two thirds of those with moderate head injury will be permanently disabled and will not return to their premorbid level of function.
This means that a head injury may just make you stupid and you pee indiscriminately like a child. The take home message really is not that you should not cycle on the roads. It is perfectly fine if you follow traffic rules and your path is predictable to the motorist. Most importantly, wear a helmet!!! Yes, its ugly but the depression on your scalp after craniotomy aren't pretty either! Yes, you might not be travelling at a high speed, but the thing that is gonna knock you silly sure might be!
So ar, the ah pek and gay man, remember hor! You are not Superman ok!!! (and you definitely aren't made of steel!)
Your helmet might just save your life!
Head injury at A&E damn sian... low GCS must bug radiologist for urgent CT scan of head, then got bleed must bug neurosurgeon. Then hope patient don't collapse, otherwise must resus. More often than that must follow patient to ICU, in case of .... collapse!
ReplyDeletePays to wear helmet to stay alive and save everyone a whole load of trouble.
too bad, sillypore just have more and more this type of people
ReplyDeleteoi! post-call still so energetic! can re-design the blog page header graphics some more!
ReplyDeletewho post call huh?
ReplyDeletehey, that's what i usually tell my friends to deter them from riding bikes.
ReplyDelete"Yes, you might not be travelling at a high speed, but the thing that is gonna knock you silly sure might be!"
In the same spirit as your 16 Aug entry(the idea that if you understand the consequences of your choices, then they're valid ones) -- I choose not to wear a helmet.
ReplyDelete1. Helmets are a real hassle, and really do trap alot of heat
2. There is insufficient evidence that helmets reduce the incidence of head injuries. Some studies agree, others disagree.
3. Styrofoam hats don't look like they're going to help if a truck mauls you at 80kmh.
4. It is much less painful to die of a head injury than let's say organ rupture or kidney failure from rhabdomyolysis.
I'm not advocating throwing away our helmets, but I'm just saying that this is a possible choice.
yup and most ah pek choose NOT to wear helmets. then I can only hope they also choose not to veer into my car.....
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