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iceman2058 Added a comment about news story Stravacide? Family Suing Strava Over Son's Death

6/21/2012 12:03am
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Not to harp on here, because I think we broadly agree on the issues at hand...just to point out that I have lived in many countries (the US, Sweden, Ireland, France, Israel), and my observation is that the regulations are nowhere even near as stringent anywhere as they are in the US. The US has its "vigorous" tort system which has helped CREATE a lot of regulation (out of fear). In many places in Europe (and even the Middle East you'd perhaps be surprised to know), there is sort of a common sense filter applied way before things end up...
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iceman2058 Added a comment about news story Stravacide? Family Suing Strava Over Son's Death

6/19/2012 10:19pm
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Bar dragging is not only dangerous to the individual, it also causes EROSION NEXT TO THE TRAIL, completely destroying the natural habitat in the process. The practice should be banned, and Vital should be ashamed of itself to have condoned such barbaric behavior. Get on it or my lawyers will.
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iceman2058 Added a comment about news story Stravacide? Family Suing Strava Over Son's Death

6/19/2012 10:15pm
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In many other countries, such "lawsuits" don't get any airtime at all - hence, they don't really enter into the equation in the first place. That's my point - in the US, people wave lawsuits around for nothing, and then the lawyers run the show. There should be heavy fines AGAINST people who are found to have filed abusive lawsuits. Just look at our own sport - someone builds a stunt, somebody else jumps it and fails, just because he/she wasn't good enough to pull it off, or just because that day, something went wrong. Now that person can sue...
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iceman2058 Added a comment about news story Stravacide? Family Suing Strava Over Son's Death

6/19/2012 12:09pm
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Seriously, a good chunk of the US legal system needs to be completely re-done. The airhead lawyer reassures me to some degree, she comes across completely stupid (and obviously out of touch with reality...CONES...yeah, really?)...but worryingly, she apparently has been taken seriously enough for the stupid suit to be filed in the first place. For sure it's a sad thing when somebody dies or is injured, but this business of looking for who's to blame when people do stuff that puts their lives at risk is really taking it too far. Reeks of greed, no two ways about it.
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iceman2058 Added a comment about video Line of Sight - Official Trailer

6/14/2012 11:49am
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Impressively gnarly, guess I'm not all that down with the whole fuck the system mentality.
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iceman2058 Added a comment about video Fort William Finals Chit Chat 2012

6/11/2012 11:46am
How about Rachel learns some French, then they can just do all the women's interviews in French each race, stop torturing those poor girls with English already!
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iceman2058 Added a comment about slideshow 2012 Fort William Downhill Finals Action

6/11/2012 2:32am
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Awesomeness in the slideshow as ever! Even though I thought I saw a tilt/shift shot from Sven, but that was surely just my eyes playing up. Oh, and the benefit of Slugger's crash: pretty damn sick whips! As stylish as they get I think.
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