[Paddlewise] Risk Homeowhatsis

     "When he returned, I asked him why, over the years, the family had
so stubbornly refused to use any safety device, up to and including a
net."
     "You can't count on them," he shrugged.  "You can get hurt just as
badly with them as without them."
.... I asked if a net wouldn't have saved lives in Detroit, and he said,
"All seven of them might have gone down and been killed if they'd
believed they'd be saved by a net."  A net, he claimed, creates a false
sense of security and would almost certainly have become a tacit cause
for slippage in the family's meticulous performance standards.  "If the
net's not there, " he said, " you have the best reason of all for
staying on the wire."

>From interview of Rick Wallenda by Charles Wilkins in "The Circus at the
Edge of the Earth" ISBN 0-7710-8847-7.

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