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http://tvnz.co.nz/cricket-news/jesse-ryder-in-critical-condition-afte...

WTF?

that's sad.. I thought he on his way back to international cricket and
that
his IPL with Delhi would help him.

OMG!

Regards,
Jayen

Off the field, the bloke's been particularly short of luck in his
career somehow. Quite sad. Having said that, I'd take newspaper
reports such as these with skepticism insofar as 'criticality' is
concerned. A fractured skull + being in intensive care is enough for
most hacks to go OTT. I had cracked my skull once and was laid up in
an ICU but it was just to check for concussion over a period of time;
there's nothing that can be done to a skull with a hairline crack
anyway and it's totally painless. I hope Ryder's situation is the same
<crossed fingers>

Ramapriya

This ***happens nightly. Why are we more shocked/saddened when it happens to a celebrity?

because in most cases we have no idea about the victim

That's very sad.

Because if it's not a celebrity we usually don't get to hear about it?
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Ryder is in an induced coma right now.

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Well chronicled phenomenon.  Most of us, relatively law-abiding people living in relatively stable and affluent conditions, possess an illusion of absolute safety, until something happens to shake us out of that illusion -- and we realize that it could happen to us.

We hear about terrible things happening, ***s,***s, ***s, school shootings, etc., and while we are horrified, secretly we believe that this won't happen to us -- and often, these killings / beatings happen to people who are in significantly different strata of society, or in different parts of the country, or in backward areas -- and we think we are safe.  Until we realize that we are not.

For instance, folks in the US were horrified by the Dec 2012 shootings in Newtown, CT, for many reasons.  For one, it was in a relatively affluent suburb, and the school was in the populous North-East and like so many others in that area.  Second, it happened to little kids, and that captured us viscerally in a very different fashion than the 5-7 other shootings that happened in Jan 2013 across the country (those hardly got coverage).

It is the same reason why a robbery / attack within 10-20 miles of your home, has you and many of your neighbors getting security systems installed.

And when it is a celebrity, it is even worse.  If *he* isn't safe (especially, if we was doing a normal thing like going to a bar with his mates), then neither are we.  Particularly poignant for a sportsperson at the height of his / her abilities, is also the thought of all that wasted potential...

But mostly it is the gut reaction that we all have when we realize that this too could happen to us that fuels a some part of the disproportionate reaction to certain sad events,

Bharat

Oh I see you are the resident IPL troll. To any BCCI apparatchiks
trolling this group, I am available as a professional shill on highly
reasonable rates, and I am probably in IQ terms several exponential
orders of magnitude higher than any of the poor halfwits that you have
hitherto entrusted this task to.