 Poster: A snowHead
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Canadian health experts claim that snowmobile-related injuries are twice as common as those from skiing or boarding. The warning comes before the peak month for accidents, which tends to be February.
The study also found that alcohol was involved in almost half of the incidents where blood/alcohol level was recorded, a statistic that has doubled in the past three years.
This report from CTV.ca.
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| ... emergency-department snowmobiling statistics were only available in Ontario, where an average of 16 snowmobiling patients are admitted each day of the winter. |
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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It's certainly twice as knackering. After a day's snowmobiling the old lady and I woke up unable to flex a single joint between us; I thought that I was paralysed. I had to roll off the bed onto the floor and haul myself up from there. Good fun, though, although I can see that it would be easy to have a nasty accident.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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I've rolled a snowmobile on top of myself and my girlfriend. Apart from that they are great fun though.
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they are great fun but I know sharon nearly came a croper the other year on one
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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It's certainly twice as knackering
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Is that becoz you did it as a one-off richmond? If you do it regularly (as with skiing) you develop the muscles required.
I too have rolled one, Kramer, also with the mrs on board. Our common experience suggests the women are to blame!
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It's certainly twice as knackering
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Our common experience suggests the women are to blame! |
no comment 
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the ice perv, yes it was a one off, but it was spectacularly knackering. I assumed that since the thing had an engine, it would be relatively leisurely but as you know, you have to move form side to side all the time, to say nothing of parting company with everything except the handlebars from time to time. Add to that the corrugated tracks (in some places), and the result is paralysis. The old lady didn't roll hers, but she did hit a (small) tree in the middle of a huge open space, about the size of Trafalgar Square. Which was nice.
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Perhaps she's a frustrated lumberjack
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I like the way that when you go up hill you can brake but not turn very well, going down you can turn, but just not brake very well!
To anyone who hasn't had a go, I would really recommend it.
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