Red Lights

[DJD]

Each state is different some do and some don't.

[HURRICANEBOB]

First, always wear a helmet when in the "Car" at a "Red light". That's why I don't have any child support payments. (Scratch "car", insert "Bus", I date Bertha)

Second, if bikers can choose to wear or not wear safety gear i.e. helmets, why do I have to wear a seat belt? Is the law saying it's okay for a biker to be brain dead, but not an automobile operator? Equal rights, I should have the same opportunity to go brain dead going thru the windshield of my car, as a biker without a helmet does when he comes thru my windshield.

I know why we have to wear seatbelts........it makes it easier for the ambulance crew to find the bodies. ERGO.....bikers ought have to wear seat belts too. I mean, they really are more likely to be thrown out in the bushes where its hard to find them, than the driver of a KIA Rio.

[Jabbo]

If I ride a Motorcycle I wear a helmet.. I don't think it's the Gubment's job to tell me to wear one.. Darwin's theory at it's finest (for those who don't)....
Only time I say make them wear a seat belt or helmet is if they are under 18 because some parents are dumb too. I remember laying in the back window package tray as a little fella, making faces at the grumpy old people behind my dad's car. Looking back, that was duuuuuuuuumb.

[HURRICANEBOB]

If I ride a Motorcycle I wear a helmet.. I don't think it's the Gubment's job to tell me to wear one.. Darwin's theory at it's finest (for those who don't)....
Only time I say make them wear a seat belt or helmet is if they are under 18 because some parents are dumb too. I remember laying in the back window package tray as a little fella, making faces at the grumpy old people behind my dad's car. Looking back, that was duuuuuuuuumb.

Remember those giant land barge station wagons, like the Fords, and big Chevies? Remember the rear facing seats that folded up out of the floor. You know, the ones that parents who hated kids put the little folks in, way at the back of the car. As a kid, I used to sit there, looking out the back window, at red lights, with my fingers crossed as each car closed on us while we waited for the green. Looking back, suprisaed I didn't become a hood ornament!

Felt so lucky,, went Airborne in teh Army. Figured if a Ford LTD Country Squire Station Wagon couldn't kill me, no C-130 even had a chance.

[kygorski]

When I worked [once], it was mandatory to wear a seat belt using any company vechicle for any purpose, automatic dismissal with no recourse.And then the company leased a fork lift to unload calcium carbide from trailers.Guess what? The first thing I do after putting on my seat belt, is usually light up a smoke.I dont text[dont know how or care to learn], dont use the cell while driving because I might spill my giant cup of coffee. Get into the boat put on my PFD, forget the kill switch 75% of the time. Life is full of contradictions, and dumb ideas. Bob, you weren't in that airborne group where the CO banned smoking because it was bad for the mens health? I always thought if you dont poop through feathers, dont jump out of a plane. 28th US infantry regiment. We wore brown boots.

[RoadToad]

If I ride a Motorcycle I wear a helmet.. I don't think it's the Gubment's job to tell me to wear one.. Darwin's theory at it's finest (for those who don't)....

Only problem with that is that those who don't wear one can often linger for weeks, months, even years on life support, driving up insurance rates for the rest of us who use our heads for something besides a hat rack. If only they could all be put into their own little insurance pool, into which none of the rest of us had to pay, I wouldn't have a problem with letting them ride with no helmets.

[DJD]

Well riding without a helmet can cause head injuries but not always. If you think a special policy might be in order then we need them for smokers, overweight folks, stroke and heart attack folks and anyother catagory that you might create.
Know what I mean? I'm willing to bet far fewer people die from head injuries on a motorcycle than those who choose to smoke, drink, eat too much or choose to be unhealthy.

[mhall]

I know one thing that dude driving that white bus needs to take up Nascar, that boy can drive. Missing rear ending that car and keeping a bus straight without wrecking was nothing shy of miraculous.

[RoadToad]

Well riding without a helmet can cause head injuries but not always. If you think a special policy might be in order then we need them for smokers, overweight folks, stroke and heart attack folks and anyother catagory that you might create.
Know what I mean? I'm willing to bet far fewer people die from head injuries on a motorcycle than those who choose to smoke, drink, eat too much or choose to be unhealthy.

You're right, but among those groups you named, the only one driving up my auto insurance rates is those who ride motorcycles without a helmet.

My bad, I should have said "their own little auto insurance pool." And BTW, smokers already do pay more for health insurance under most plans, and increased premiums for obesity are on the way.