Protip: If you want to avoid pesky legal issues, just place a battered bicycle next to the corpse and say "he came out of nowhere" and "should have worn a helmet".
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"Few creatures of the night have captured our imagination like vampires.
What explains our enduring fascination with vampires? Is it the overtones of sexual lust, power, control? Or is it a fascination with the immortality of the undead?"
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Cyclists should wear helmets
True. But here's a fun statistics fact: Most people who sustain head injuries in traffic accidents are inside a car.
Despite seatbelts and airbags. Yet strangely, no one ever says "Car drivers should wear helmets".
There are significantly more cars on the road than bikes, so it makes perfect sense that people who sustain injuries in traffic accidents are more likely to be in a car. The latest UK stats show that 54% of road casualties were car occupants compared to 12% for cyclists.
In order to make a proper comparison we would need to compare the accident rate to the total number of journeys for both cars and bikes. These stats from 2024 show that cycling made up only 2% or trips whereas Cars in the same period made 59% of trips.
Which is why it is important for cyclists in particular to wear helmets: they are significantly more likely to need them.
As long as it stays completely voluntary, I'm all for helmets.
Nothing is worse for bicycle safety and overall health of cyclists than mandatory helmet laws, since their main effect is reducing ridership. From a study showing the effects of such a law in Australia:
The benefits of cycling, even without a helmet, have been estimated to outweigh the hazards by a factor of 20 to 1 (Hillman 1993. Cycle helmets-the case for and against. Policy Studies Institute, London). Consequently, a helmet law, whose most notable effect was to reduce cycling, may have generated a net loss of health benefits to the nation. Despite the risk of dying from head injury per hour being similar for unhelmeted cyclists and motor vehicle occupants, cyclists alone have been required to wear head protection. Helmets for motor vehicle occupants are now being marketed and a mandatory helmet law for these road users has the potential to save 17 times as many people from death by head injury as a helmet law for cyclists without the adverse effects of discouraging a healthy and pollution free mode of transport.
I'm a little confused by you saying bike helmets should be optional, then immediately pasting a snippet about the benefits of a mandatory helmet law for car users. Cycling is good for you; caving your head in on a post box isn't. People should be free to make that choice for themselves, helmets in cars is an entirely separate issue.
zip tie a beat up bike to the front of your vehicle to save yourself the hassle, plus the corpse will have contusions consistent with a bicycle collision.
And there was a Buffy the Vampire episode about something like this once. Some kind of great evil who claimed he couldn't be killed by anything made by mortal men. Then Buffy uses a bazooka on him. Maybe not those mortal man back then, but these ones? Lockheed and Raytheon? That'll do it.
Couldn't be killed by anything forged by man, but a rocket launcher was manufactured, so it was a loophole in the prophecy.
FYI: Most bullets are cast not forged so just about anything would work
I think its the machine part and not the literal "forged" part. A wooden club, rope or poison are all not forged but still made by man. Same with a fist.
Vampires are the dumbest monster. They can't enter a home without being invited, are repulsed by an easily drawn "t", get burned by an aromatic and can't go out in the sun. Just the dumbest monster.
I always liked the Salem's Lot vampires for this reason.
- Repelled by the faith in the power of good behind the symbols, not the symbols themselves. Catholic priest who is a broken man tries it with a cross but his faith fails and he gets rekt.
- Must be invited in, but really good at hypnotizing people especially if they are asleep. Also, once they become vampires they go after their own family first, who are more suggestible ("I had a dream our boy was still alive...").
That is a bit more interesting.
That has a lot to do with their origins. The fae also can't enter your home without being invited, but they're really, really good at getting people to invite them in.
Interestingly, the part about mirrors is also linked to the fae. The fae were believed to be harmed by silver, and silver had a lot of 'magical' powers. Since mirrors were made with silver, it kinda made sense that vampires couldn't see themselves in a mirror. But modern mirrors have aluminum backs (IIRC), so a vampire should be able to see their own reflection, no?
Also, garlic seems to depend on the origin on the vampire. Eastern European vampires were believed to be incredibly OCD; if you dumped out a handful of mustard seeds in front of them, they would feel compelled to count all of them.
So, they're polite and can't stand people who pretend to be Christian.
I think the point of all that is the allegory. Which is the point of the monster; linking it to real ideas in your life and personifying your fears to tell indirect stories about them.
'Thing that just kills you a bunch and is scary' is a much smaller vein of good stories to mine.
Incredibly vain
can't see own reflection
Finally, a worthy purpose for the American Pick Up Truck.
Just put stakes on front of cars. Pedestrian Dracula wouldn't last long.
You got a fast car
I got a blood drinkin' monster
Maybe we make a deal
Maybe together we can slay the beast
We have wood chippers now, also chainsaws and electric circular saws. See how tough vampires are when they're mush.
They might reassemble like sea sponges for all we know.
So we take the vampire slurry and put them into seperate jars, so even if they could solidify, they would be in parts and we could easily secure them in seperate parts of the world, or hell, shoot the jars into space, make them another planets problem.
You're approaching this the wrong way.
Imagine you slurry two vampires, keep 51% each and mix the remaining 49% of both as well as you can. Now put them into a container with two membranes, the 51% each on the sides, and the mixed slurry in the middle.
While the slurry separates, the membranes can extract energy. And as soon as the slurry has mostly separated, you can mix them up again using that energy, and start again.
A Vampiricum Mobile!
I didn't even think about using the vampires as charge carriers. How do the vampire slurries interact with blood?
We can't kill Dracula. We have science to do.
Like, culinarily? Or chemically?
Maybe that's how they got here
Well, we can send them back with a note saying " Sorry, no thank you, we already have one of these."
In buffy they use a rocket launcher...
I thought of that as soon as I saw the meme too
Well, that wasnโt a vampire, but The Judge, which before times could only be destroyed by a volcano. Then again in Buffy lore fire can kill Vampires, soโฆ
Paging Tracy Chapman.
All Im saying is a little brrrrrppppp from an A-10 will probably get it done
Hmm. At some point werewolf media updated from silvered blades to silver bullets. Buffy used a crossbow, but what about wooden bullets?
Might need a sabot or some kind of jacketing to protect from combustion, but could it work?
Theres a 2 part Polish horror comedy called "Nobody Sleeps in the Woods Tonight" and one of the mutant alien possessed teenagers gets hit by a big bus near the end.
But Robert patt can dodge cars AND out run them
I imagine a drive shaft through the skull may also be effective
I don't think vampires can ignore physics. Enough kinetic energy can destroy anything.
To quote the documentary Hotel Transylvania: "Yeah, well, who wouldn't that kill?"
Fuck cars.