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Date:         Thu, 31 Aug 2000 20:16:11 -0700
Reply-To:     Susan Bernavich <susanb@WIZZARDS.NET>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Susan Bernavich <susanb@WIZZARDS.NET>
Subject:      Re: safety
Comments: To: Sussmn@AOL.COM
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well said!!!! SusanB

Carol Sussman wrote:

> I was loath to get into this thread until a recent post (well-intentioned, > I'm sure. Flamethrowers off) seemed to advise women against solo travel. > Life well-lived ensures risk. > We are each responsible for our own assessment of risk and appropriate safety > measures. Key word here is responsibility. > Anyone alone on the road is a potential target. Do your own calculations as > to whether an old shabby (possibly unreliable) low value vehicle is safer > than a newer more valuable one. I have a 1981 Volvo wagon and an '89 Westy. > Am I more/less likely to be victimized as a middle-aged woman than when I was > 30 years younger? Are older males at less risk than younger? Factor in > older =wiser=weaker vs. youth =strength=less experienced=more attractive for > BOTH genders . Go on, make yourself nuts until afraid to go anywhere! > Common sense, that increasinly rare commodity, rules. > Know how to keep the van running, have communications capacity. Use this list > to make an itinerary of folks who will know where you are. Follow your gut > instinct. Studies on assault indicate that women who ignore a sense of > uneasiness shouldn't. When in doubt, don't leave your van. (Carry a bucket!) > Travel with joy and caution, remembering that MOST FOLKS ARE DECENT. > CarolS Sussman > Formerly: > safety officer, construction > Emergency Medical Technician > Assistant to the Atlantic County Medical Examiner (assisted in 500+ autopsies) > SCCA racer of several MGB's > currently travel with a big black dog so I don't need to display/use the .38. > (NO, I do not want to re-energize the gun thread on or off this list.)


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