I received the following PM from Julie Booker yesterday.
...Glenn has been home now for about 9 weeks. He is improving alot. He still gets confused alittle. He is still not like he used to be. He has no interests yet, like his coins. He still needs 24/7....
This is going to be a rough holiday for the Booker family. Please, they still need everyone's prayers. Thank you,
As a 20+ year Harley rider I hate to hear when a brother rider goes down whether he was on a Harley or whatever. I know everyday when I head out on my bike it may be my last ride. Motorcycle riding is dangerous in itself, even if we didn’t have to worry about drunks & sober cagers with cell phones stuck to their heads. I wear all my gear all the time and keep my eyes open and have around 1 close call that’s high on the pucker factor every week I wasn’t here in July when it happened so this is new news to me & I hope he’s doing better now.
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It's amazing how invisible motorcycles can be on the road.
I remember about 15 years ago I pulled up to a familiar stop sign in my neighborhood, looked straight at a motorcyclist coming towards me on my right and then proceeded to pull directly out in front of him. We both slammed on our breaks and he came within a foot of smashing into my drivers side door. I was horrified considering it was 100% my fault. I rolled down my window and proceeded to beg him for forgiveness. To my amazement he just shrugged his shoulders and said "Don't worry about it. It happens all the time".
I guess people are so tuned into looking for cars and trucks that motorcycles just don't register in the brain even when you're looking directly at them.
I think it has a lot to do with being able to gauge how fast the cycle is traveling as well. We are used to viewing oncoming cars and being able to determine if we can or cannot pull out safely into their path. The size of a motorcycle makes this difficult.
I buzz around in the summer on a little scooter for errands and to/from work. I have a near death experience about once a year on it and it's always someone pulling out in front of or turning in front of me.
Back in the summer my little niece, who is 11 was walking with her friend....they were on the sidewalk and had come to a four way stop...there was a motorcycle and a car approaching...the motorcycle thought the car was going to stop and did not...and hit the guy on the motorcycle...my niece said the girl was talking on the cell phone...she hit him....my niece went over to him...his head was burst open...my niece picked his head and shoulders up in her arms as he was gurgalling....and he was looking into her eyes and she said she was praying to him...he died right in her arms....I don't know what nightmares this will bring to her....
Horribly tragic story and repeated all too often. I watch how many are on their phones when I am a a red light as they pass me and it is disturbing, espeially the ones who are turning while on the cell and either smoking their cigarette or eating a burger. The level of recklessness and lack of general concern for public safety is horrendous. One would think the occasion to require talking to someone on the phone while in transit somewhere and where you simply cannot pull the death mach ine over for the call would be quite uncommon. The unlimited calling plans are in part responsible but ultimately it falls on the folks with very bad priorities.
<< <i>I guess people are so tuned into looking for cars and trucks that motorcycles just don't register in the brain even when you're looking directly at them. >>
Sad but true. A participant in another message board I frequent was recently killed on his motorcycle. An SUV turned right into him -- the SUV driver never saw him.
Keep good spirits, BOOK. We'll be here when you're back.
From what I remember from driver's safety class in the 80s was that we're trained to look for cars when we come to a stop sign/intersection, not motorcycles or bikes. So we can look right at one but it doesn't register as something we should stop for.
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Book's name came up today and I was wondering if anybody has heard anything regarding Glenn's recovery from that motorcycle accident he was in last July?
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...Glenn has been home now for about 9 weeks. He is improving alot. He still gets confused alittle. He is still not like he used to be. He has no interests yet, like his coins. He still needs 24/7....
This is going to be a rough holiday for the Booker family. Please, they still need everyone's prayers. Thank you,
Jerry
All of us here are pulling for you.
I know Book, a little, through swapping PMs, and am extremely sorry to hear this.
Rest assured I will pray for his recovery, and the well-being of your family.
I guess I must've been absent from the forums back in July when this was originally posted.
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I wasn’t here in July when it happened so this is new news to me & I hope he’s doing better now.
I remember about 15 years ago I pulled up to a familiar stop sign in my neighborhood, looked straight at a motorcyclist coming towards me on my right and then proceeded to pull directly out in front of him.
I guess people are so tuned into looking for cars and trucks that motorcycles just don't register in the brain even when you're looking directly at them.
I think it has a lot to do with being able to gauge how fast the cycle is traveling as well. We are used to viewing oncoming cars and being able to determine if we can or cannot pull out safely into their path. The size of a motorcycle makes this difficult.
I buzz around in the summer on a little scooter for errands and to/from work. I have a near death experience about once a year on it and it's always someone pulling out in front of or turning in front of me.
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<< <i>I guess people are so tuned into looking for cars and trucks that motorcycles just don't register in the brain even when you're looking directly at them. >>
Sad but true. A participant in another message board I frequent was recently killed on his motorcycle. An SUV turned right into him -- the SUV driver never saw him.
Keep good spirits, BOOK. We'll be here when you're back.
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