value of life? Isn't that some liberal western value?
Have been shocked at this issue in many countries worldwide. Was on a bus in china in 2002 that slowed down to watch a woman have an epileptic fit in the middle of the highway ..... and then just kept going. Happy to be where i am .....
The only time I ever gone down on the moto, get this, was in a National Park, early morning, fog and mist, sun was just coming up, and a Moose charged me, it was cliff on my right and shear rock on my left, chose the gully between the road and rock wall face, and put her down on its side at 45 degrees, only scraped the under side, but it took me 45 minutes to get it up and out of the 1ft deep gully, by building a rock ramp.....that was real fun! No sooner I got it out and was resting and checking all the underside for damage a ranger came by, he got a real kick out of my story and said a deer jumped out on a guy a week earlier and they airlift him to hospital....
Well although there seems to be so many of us who have seen someone getting killed.... it sucks none the less. This time I did not actually SEE the death. It's a weird thing anyway. Last time was in Cali, Colombia where I saw someone cowering on the ground putting his hands up as if to sheild..... the bullet that killed him. He was trying to car jack the wife of the man holding the gun, but it ABSOLUTELY sucked to see anyway.
And as for, "value of life? Isn't that some liberal western value?"
Well, as it seems, in Ticobus "land", at least in Honduras, there IS a dollar value of a life. So explained the driver's helper who by chance took an open seat on the bus that came by and picked many of us up. And from what he said, that value depends on wheather someone has family or not. Guy said the man looked to be 50 to 55 years old. If he was a lonely (or at least an alone) campasino then that value would probably be $0. If he had a wife and kids than he said that they would probably get somewhere between US$5,000. to 6,000. I kind of believed him as as many of you alluded to, this probably happens from time to time.
re: 17
"it took me 45 minutes to get it up"
Solo, is this really the proper forum for such a topic?
re: 5
Boomer, where be "BA"? Typoland?
