i know someone who lost a leg on one of those things
bloody dangerous if you don't know what you're doing.

TJ: if you start DLing a bit-torrent from one tracker, but then you can't find any seeders to complete the download, can you change to another site and complete the download from another tracker?
(Brad Dice, Mon 11 Jul 2005, 20:30, archived)

Didn't a small child die from one recently?
edit: Yes:

news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/4672513.stm
( Druid, Mon 11 Jul 2005, 20:37, archived)

That's a girl?

( ArthurTheRat, Mon 11 Jul 2005, 20:39, archived)

I was being really tight,
and added a line to the end of the story in my head, which now reads:

"Lucy was a lovely girl who contributed a lot to the school. She was bright and lively and very popular with both pupils and staff alike.

"She will be greatly missed, as will the quad bike."
( Druid, Mon 11 Jul 2005, 20:42, archived)

oooft!
that's harsh! but funny, so it's alright
(trumpet, Mon 11 Jul 2005, 20:44, archived)

Is it just me who finds the thought of a 5 year old girl
out on a field with a sister only a couple of years older on a quad bike at 9:30pm just utterly stupid and the parents should be given lessons in how to not be stupid.
( magnum, Mon 11 Jul 2005, 20:44, archived)

No, it's not.
I bet Rik Mayall and Ozzy would agree too.
( Druid, Mon 11 Jul 2005, 20:47, archived)

I'm in good company
The guy who used to live across the road burnt his leg on the exhaust of a quad bike. He showed me the wound about 6 weeks later and it looked really nasty even then.
( magnum, Mon 11 Jul 2005, 20:49, archived)

they are fucking dangerous things
i've turned mine upside-down before, and got away with it, but I was just lucky: Twatboy tried to spin it around at high speed in the river, and flipped it on top of himself on sandstone.

Fucking serves him right, as far as I'm concerned...
(trumpet, Mon 11 Jul 2005, 20:44, archived)