Haphazard Awareness Essay

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Haphazard Awareness Haphazard people are not only hazardous to them selves but can also affect others around them. Consider how often we entrust people with our safety that we don’t even know. For example, when vacationers step aboard a cruise liner they willingly trust their lives in the hands of a complete stranger. Next thing they know the Captain makes a thoughtless and disastrous decision that dramatically changes everything. Luckily a lot of individuals respectfully follow rules, have a comprehensive plan or at the least consider other peoples welfare. One activity an individual person can pursue that has multiple risk factors and is practiced without proper supervision or safety equipment is skateboarding. So many people attempt this sport without any intentions to prevent or lessen an injury from the unavoidable accident. For instance, on YouTube I saw this one guy attempt a trick that involves skating across a street, plus ollieing over a curb, and kick flipping over a gap of about three feet across and over a ledge with about a three to four foot drop, finally landing in the middle of a drive located between the ledge and a brick wall. His plan for safety includes no way of stopping cars from crossing his path, absolutely no safety equipment, an impulsive behavior, and two spectators with one camera. These are tall tale signs of the haphazard thought process. The skater repeats the trick time after time. He is able to bail on one attempt where a car was driving through his landing zone. To add insult to injury, he hastily picks up his skateboard and launches it at the brick wall barely missing the vehicle and damaging his only equipment. So he makes a couple more attempts before he was forced to stop his stunt by a much heavier and faster object than himself. As he was confidently crossing the road, without looking either way, fate introduced itself

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