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We would like to take the opportunity afforded by former NFL player Lavar Arrington's motorcycle accident to remind you that riding on a motorcycle is very, very dangerous. And in case you don't believe us, we'll cheat and use the moral imperative of warning everyone about motorcycle safety as an excuse to post awesome motocycle crash videos.
Arrington, who is in serious but non life-threatening condition following his crash on Monday, was wearing a helmet at the time, which earns him some safety points. He did not, however, possess the proper license for a motorcycle, meaning that Arrington also didn't likely have any official safety training on a bike at all.
And there are some things--the absolute danger of motorcycling aside--that can mitigate the risk of being on a bike, like not going lightspeed on apparently empty straightaways, wearing a helmet, and being downright paranoid about your points of entry and exit on the road you're traveling on at the time. Yet it's inherently risky, and nothing changes that aside from a world made of Nerf. (Available fall 2045. It'll rule.) The number of ways to fly off a bike combined with the number of things you could hit, impale yourself on, fly into or through...it's both infinite and intinitely unpredicatable.
(Full disclosure: we laid a bike down in a foreign country once, and it completely sucked in every way you can imagine. And we were on a pipsqueak of a bike, not the hell-chariot Arrington was undoubtedly riding.)
As Sports Bleachers points out, chastising Arrington for taking that risk is utterly stupid. Arrington's a grown man, and under no obligations to any professional team re: his behavior. Nor does his "talent" mandate any behaviors in and of itself--Arrington's free to be a postman if he likes rather than a football player, or in this case, aspiring to a career as a medical pain management test case. At the worst, Arrington's a bad motorcycle driver, a label the video above proves even professional motorcyclists wear from time to time.
Public Safety Announcement: Motorcycles Remain Totally Dangerous
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