Re: terrified parents

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Original poster: robert & june heidlebaugh <rheidlebaugh-at-desertgate-dot-com> 

Years passed I manufactured explosives for the mining industry. This
profession has the lowest risk loss af any profession. Yet nearly every one
in the public has been injured with fireworks. The reason is the public acts
stupid. A professial knows the risk and acts safely. The TC is the same type
of condition. If you act stupid you can  and will get hurt. That is easy to
see smell and feel, so we avoid the problem by acting in a safe manner. When
people become careless they get hurt. More people are injured in the bath
tub each year than any other place in the house. More people are killed in
cars than in war. Dry cleaning is the most dangerous job you can have, We
get careless when we overlook the dangers. All life has dangers. Mothers
loose fingers every year to electric food mixers. When we know the risk and
act safely we avoid accidents. Keep your fingers out of the mixing bowl and
use your TC in a safe way to avoid the problems. Hiding from danger is not
the answer. Safety is the way to avoid the risks of life.          Sex kills
    Robert   H
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 > From: "Tesla list" <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
 > Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2003 20:35:41 -0700
 > To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
 > Subject: re: terrified parents
 > Resent-From: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
 > Resent-Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2003 20:41:52 -0700
 >
 > Original poster: dgoodfellow-at-highstream-dot-net
 >
 > Indeed, I seem to have invoked the "200% of nothing" concept by citing
 > statistics on regularly used consumer items. Before it gets way too off
 > topic, let me just say this...
 > One of my hobbies is consumer fireworks. It is constantly being attacked by
 > politicians as being completely unsafe and unfit for use by the general
 > public. Politicians often point out the statistics of fireworks injuries.
 > Fireworks, (as far as items that are evaluated and passed by the consumer
 > product safety commission), injure very few people. True, we don't all use
 > fireworks 365 days a year and if we did, statistics would be different. One
 > of the only defenses that we enthusiasts have are the counter statistics
 > available on every day "harmless items".
 > Somehow it is ok for us to loose many lives by lighting candles, but
 > if one person is hurt  by building and operating a Tesla coil, we are all
 > threatened  in our enjoyment of the pursuit of long arcs. My identifying
 > the statistics was not so much to promote the safety of high voltage
 > devices compared to everything else, as much as to state (as accurately as
 > I could), that people get hurt or killed from many things that are thought
 > to be virtually harmless.
 > Yes, the numbers are worthless as far as identifying the truth with
 > all things being even. For moms and politicians, numbers can pass or fail a
 > project!
 > Above all else, strive to keep this hobby alive by being cautious and
 > courteous as possible.
 >
 > DG
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