XMAS SLAY THAT THE RICH GO FOR(confused SUV alert)

Socialist Worker ^ | 12-20-2003 | Socialist Worker

[jrushing]

Inside the system

Xmas slay that the rich go for

THE BIG Sports Utility Vehicles (SUVs) favoured by the rich are twice as likely to kill pedestrians as a normal car in an accident.

The finding comes in the latest edition of the authoritative journal Accident Analysis and Prevention it is based on systematic research in the US headed by engineer Clay Gabler.

SUVs have become a fashion fad among the rich for their "country estate" connotations. Many have a kind of "bull bar" grill on the front which serves no other purpose than to make it more likely someone hit by the vehicle will be killed.

Clay Gabler explains SUVs "are heavier, stiffer and geometrically more blunt than passenger cars and pose a dramatically different type of threat to pedestrians. The probability of serious head and thoracic [chest] injury is substantially greater than with a car."

As cars are lower in profile they tend to cause leg injuries when they hit people at lower speeds. These are less likely to kill than head injuries.

"One way to reduce head injuries from SUVs", says Gabler, "would be to replace the blunt front end with a sloping, more aerodynamic one, making them more car-like. But this won't be popular with SUV buyers, who like their rugged off-road look."

We wonder what New Labour will put first-public safety or the dangerous lifestyle choice of its rich friends

[jrushing]

THE BIG Sports Utility Vehicles (SUVs) favoured by the rich are twice as likely to kill pedestrians as a normal car in an accident
OK, all of you rich SUV people who are twice as likely to kill pedestrians with your "Bull Bar"!

A safe way would be-
making them more car-like. But this won't be popular with SUV buyers.
You SUV people are so like greedy Capitalists!

[jrushing]

You SUV people are so like greedy Capitalists!

Oops, I left off the /sarcasm> tag. (no flames please)

[ZOOKER]

"Yo, comrade! What happened to Ivan?"

"Hit by a Hummer."

"Bummer!"

[Bob Mc]

"THE BIG Sports Utility Vehicles (SUVs) favoured by the rich are twice as likely to kill pedestrians as a normal car in an accident."

Classic! Right out of the socialists handbook! Pit the middle class against the poor (rich people don't drive SUVs, the middle class do). The rich have limos, private jets, and yachts.

[DBrow]

Socialism could not exist without "the rich".

[Reeses]

No mention of the danger of pick-up trucks? Pure green jealously fuels leftist politics.

[atomic conspiracy]

Ya know, I never liked SUVs much, but the Left's collective decision to make them the target of an authoritarian demonization campaign just might influence me to change my mind.

What would an SUV be without a few well-chosen custom features? I would fit mine not just will bullbars but with fender-mounted peasant-sighting staffs, optional running boards with built-in jackboot scrapers, and those cool flamethrower things they have in South Africa for deterring carjackers.

My only concession to the Socialist milieu would be to display the Works of Comrade Kalashnikov in the optional rifle-rack. I would paint VW bug and hippy silhouettes on the driver's door as the mileage accumulated.

[Ursus arctos horribilis]

Just DAMN !!!

I guess this includes my old 1985 K-5, which is big booted and up in the air with lifts for crawling over such obstacles. But I never knew I was rich, wish someone would keep me updated on my status by how big of a 4 WD I drive?

[socal_parrot]

heavier, stiffer and geometrically more blunt than passenger cars

Cool, I'm sold.

[Richard Axtell]

This is nothing! Wait till next year's crazy fad entertainment for the rich and corrupt hits the tabloids: "Stomping Puppies and Kittens with Heavy Hobnail Boots!" Oh, what awful, disgusting things these rich elitist Capitalists are capable of!

[Bob Mc]

"heavier, stiffer and geometrically more blunt than passenger cars"

In other words, typical passenger cars are lighter, weaker, prone to damage easier, and more likely to injure or kill the occupants.

[Bob Mc]

"SUVs have become a fashion fad among the rich for their "country estate" connotations."

Another often repeated lie of the socialists. Rich people have limos, private jets and yachts. The middle class drive SUVs.

[brianl703]

My brother informed me a while ago that '97 Chevy Blazers are only about $5K on the used market. When I asked him why they're so cheap, he said: "Because it has a bowtie on it".

I'm sure that even the $5K Chevy Blazer will do a fine job of killing pedestrians........

[atomic conspiracy]

Here you go:

Run for your lives, Bolshevik whiners!

[brianl703]

With that yellow paintjob, it looks like a school bus.

[atomic conspiracy]

Maybe the great moral authority of the Socialist Worker will persuade and I go instead for some ideologically correct socialist transportation:

(Soviet era Zil limousine carrying Fidel Castro and Jimmy Carter from Jose Marti airport during Carter's recent visit to Cuba.)

(another noted socialist with an earlier model Zil)

[Old Professer]

Your "slay" should be sleigh; but otherwise, this piece of drivel slays me.

[Paul Atreides]

THE BIG Sports Utility Vehicles (SUVs) favoured by the rich are twice as likely to kill pedestrians as a normal car in an accident

Yeah! Only State tanks are supposed to kill the proles in "accidents."

[o_zarkman44]

I guess socialists prefer sacrifice of their earnings to the state so to be poor pedestrians over being affluent enough to afford a SUV. So is my understanding of this article inferring that Socialists pedestrians are being unfairly endangered by SUV owners? The bull bar has a purpose. It smashes those stupid people who write this kind of class warfare garbage!

[Reeses]

These big Socialist monsters are SUV killers. Did you know that the fares collected only cover 20 percent of the operating costs, the rest a gift from working class families? It really costs $15 to ride the bus instead of $3 to drive yourself to work, not to mention all that global warming soot.