I think the overall point is where your argument ends. Extending the "we're just looking out for folks safety" is an endless line of power that the government isn't meant to have.

 

thata girl juliet!!! If I see someone not wearing there own seat belt then ill shrug my shoulders and not worry about it but when I see people that have kits just jumping around and causing huge distractions and being unsafe it pisses me off.

 

Oh you have no idea how it incenses me ..I want to pull them over and give them a huge piece of my mind ..its like "I know I will strap me in but my most precious thing in the world I will just hold" ..or maybe I will let him play on the back seat ..I mean how can I deny little Billy that!!

yep, *breathe*

Jules

 

Guy in my shop rides a cruiser and just tosses his little novelty half helmet in the corner of his garage, just tosses it on the concrete deck! I was like "you know that your damaging your helmet, they are only designed to take one impact, and thats to save your grape" He goes on to tell me how helmets can actually kill you because of the wight of them in impact could snap your neck and that they block his view............Holy hell, I was looking at that guy like he had a d!ck comming out of his forehead. I couldn't believe how stupid he was......so, moral of the story....thinning the gene pool?

 

You dont though ..the doctors and nurses do, and then the family if you become dead or a vegatable ..

Trouble is kids think they are indestructable and it wont happen to them so we ned the laws to protect them from themselves and the people they hurt .. the laws are for children if you think about it ...

Jules

 

If I had the opportunity to regulate something, I would make it a requirement to take a course to have a rider. What gets me **** hot is when I see some jackass on a bike, and his kid on the back in shorts, t-shirt, and tennies. I get so mad I want to pull them over. Hey, you want to ruin your life, I guess you have that right idiot, but the people on the back sometimes don't know any better, especially a little kid. I think in order to get the endorsement a person should have to look at a ton of motorcycle crash pictures A Clockwork Orange style! Sonsabitches!!!

 

"The old in out, in out" I love clockwork orange! and yea.. uhhh wear a helmet. (staying on subject)

 

You can talk to me till you're blue in the face about over-regulation and whatever other BS you want to throw my way. Don't care, won't care.

I stand by by original statement(s).

 

I guess I see both sides of the problem, and am unsure of what the best answer would be... I agree Helmets are very necessary, but still hessitate on making "big brother" the keeper of my own free will. At the same time there should be some protection for the rest of us/familieswhen people should choose to be idiots.

I guess the best compromise I can come up with is what we use inthe military. we call it "line of duty determination" If you die in an accident, despite having taken the necessary precautions. You are considered to have died/gotten hurt "in the line of duty" and therefore are entitled to full benefits for life insurance and/or medical coverage. HOWEVER, if it is determined that you died by your own hand (suicide, or helmetless riding /DUIor the like) you are determined to be "Not in the line of duty/ derelict in your duties of keeping yourself fit as an asset to the nation) and therefore NOT elegible to those benefits you would otherwise be entitled to.

So I guess the system could be set up so that you can choose to not wear the helmet, but in so doing you waive the burdenon evryone else shouyld something happen to you. Or you need to buy spaecific "helmetless insurrance"

Let people justify their behaviour to the ones that really matter... and see how the behaviour corrects itself...
"Yes honey, I know I'm waiving my medical and life insurance, but this helmet just messes up my hair too much...I'm sure you'll understand"