Rev,you always crack me up....
I agree, I think like minded people should be able to sign a state and federal waiver allowing them to drive and ride without seatbelts and helmets and accept no insurance or state and federal funds or gains from lawsuits.
I can say hundreds of deaths sir. Due to the vast safety improvements no one speaks of to the interior of the vehicles some idiots survive. Head to the windshield equals death and vehicle rolling over your ejected azz equals death, but not always. I have a 20 year old neighbor who had everything going, friends, girls, scholarship ( athletic ). See him lots of days now, sitting in his driveway, in his wheel chair. Nothing from the neck down since his senior year. He's a great kid and has stayed positive as far as I can tell the whole time. Another kid in that car died when the car rolled over him.
In the state of SC we even have a law against this, however the law is a few sentences and the exceptions equal two pages just about making it legal for someone under seventeen to ride in the back.(DaCol. @ May 26 2007,10:17) They're even on arant here about seat belts. Of course while your being written up, a pickup truck with kids in the bed of it, jumping around, passes by. And Yeah, I wear my belts ! Just seems kinda stupid to ticket a person not wearing a belt and do NOTHING about the kids in the pickup
Tailgating's gotta be real high up there. That's what they oughta focus on.
End over end 7 times? He must have flying - Nascar racers don't endo that many times - unless he was flipping over downhill.
the problem is not all of the die... half of them live on as vegtables and we get to foot the bill for that as well.(Revlis @ May 25 2007,18:26)Complete Crap and the worst kind of backwards logic.(mzrsq @ May 25 2007,18:26)This may all be true, but where are the studies that show how many lives were saved by not wearing a belt. How many people survived by being thrown clear of the vehicle. It's all in what you see, as I've been personal witness in my life to 2 seperate accidents in which the driver would have been "DEAD" if wearing a belt, instead they were left with minor injuries.(MoosesBusa @ May 25 2007,21:11)Actually it's all about the fatalities. The federal Government found in study after study how many people would still be alive had they simply worn their seat belt. Put bluntly, Physics is a biotch! They forced the states into enforcing the federal law by threatening to withhold federal dollars if the laws weren't enforced. Actually a smart move on their part.
Think you're stronger than a seat belt? Here's a quick test. Get in your car put on your seatbelt correctly and drive 10 miles per hour. Once up to speed slam on the brakes and come to a fast and abrupt stop. Notate any injuries sustained on a piece of paper. Now return home and go to the side of your house. back away from the wall far enough to insure you get up to 10 mph while running. Run straight into the wall with both of your arms straight out in front of you palms up and down with fingers pointed towards the sky. Run into the wall at full speed. Once stopped notate any injuries. Well, have the friends laughing at you write them down because you won't be able to hold the pen with the pain in your wrists or see the paper with the tear filled eyes from your bloody nose.
While they don't protect everybody all the time, the odds are in your favor to wear it.
Don't get mad at the cop. He was doing what he's paid to do... Uphold the law.
Seat belts may very well save lives...............But they take them too.
2 Imaginary survivals due to NOT wearing a seat belt doesn't mean sh!t when compared to the millions who die because they are too simple minded to click a belt...
Then again, I'm all for survival of the smarter, more mentally capable, so I would prefer to NOT to have ANY Seatbelt laws to go along with NO helmet laws...
Thin the stupid, and the ignorant outta the herd...
