You mention skiing, and the preparations necessary to gain the proper mindset, and skills to survive this sport. But it is actually a very
safe sport. People are beginning to wear helmets, to prevent head injuries, the new high tech ski wear ( with the exception of snowboarders ) will accentuate and reveal more of your curves that you really want it to while keeping you toasty, the new boots are designed to prevent ankle injuries (they just tear up your knees instead ). But there is one winter sport that is part of a conspiracy to reduce the world's population in cold weather countries. And that sport is......tobogganing.

This is not the harmless pastime we fondly remember from our youth. No, it is a sadistic, life threatening past time forced upon children by parents or other adults determined to kill. Lets review the facts. Have you heard any child go up to an adult "I want to go down a steep hill, littered with trees and other people, on a board, really fast, with sleet thrown in my face". Of course not.

Lets look at equipment involved, the toboggan. Does it have any steering?  No, at the most very little beyond wishful thinking. How about seat belts? Nope, and no supplementary restraint devices either. Does it have some way of deflecting the snow from the operators face to preserve some vision to try to use the non existent steering to avoid trouble? No, the only thing to help there is called eye lashes, which are likely frozen shut anyway.

Does this sound like a pastime that loving parents should encourage their lovely hostages to fortune to participate in? No, it is a diabolical trick by the grown ups of the world to prey upon the children. It could be a pre-emptive strike against the little tykes who will, in the future, choose to put their parents in a home.

Far fetched?  Then tell me, was it a child who designed, manufactured and distributed those 'saucers', which have all the attributes of the toboggan, with the added touch of making you spin around until you are nauseous. In other words, you are spinning out of control down a hill until you hit the bottom ( or tree, another person, an elk etc. ) where you roll over and promptly display your breakfast to interested passers by ( or are they leaders in the conspiracy, checking upon the groups effectiveness ).

Not enough injuries. So they invented the GT Racers. This little snow bike gives the illusion of directional control, and stopping power, but its real purpose is to increase down hill speeds to fatal proportions, or at least expose more of the body to grievous injury when the inevitable immovable object is hit.

Is the FBI, or at least Mulder looking into this? Government must act to stop this senseless barbaric ritual. Maybe if kids were cute and furry, like seals, there would be more action on this matter.

As they say in Ontario, it's not really winter until the first snowmobiler goes through the ice.
 
 
 


 
 
 
 
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