Um wearing or not wearing a helmut while riding a motorcycle is NOT an infringement on any civil right. Please point out where this is a civil right. People screaming and cying saying their civil rights are being violated over something like this really makes that person look and sound really stupid. Next thing you will be saying is that having to wear clothes is an infringement upon your civil rights. Please. Grow. Up.
——— when YOU have the right to order ME to buy YOU the ice cream for your next party, you\’ve infringed on my civil rights.
when YOU have the right to tell me what to WEAR, i\’ll have regressed to a childlike state and you\’ll have advanced to being my nanny . . .
in the meantime, stay out of my closet . . .
Why is it necessary to resort to name calling because you disagree with someone? Why am I an \”idiot\” because I \”choose\” to prefer riding without a helmet? I have full insurance coverage. I started riding a motorcycle over 40 years ago. I have not had a single accident.
Thank you for your service to our country, Charlie. My original point was your personal freedom shouldn\’t enable you to dip into my pocket to pay for your care, long term or otherwise, when a traumatic head injury arises out of an un-helmeted accident. That\’s all. It\’s just like aid to families with dependant children; in our country, you can have as many kids as you want, but when you start reaching into my earnings to take care of them, then I\’ve got something to say about the size of your family…
…your personal freedom shouldn\’t enable you to dip into my pocket to pay for your care, long term or otherwise, when a traumatic head injury arises out of an un-helmeted accident.
———– car-drivers\’ head injuries dip into MY pocket ten times more than m\’clsts (even potentially) dip into yours.
…like aid to families with dependant children; you can have as many kids as you want, but when you start reaching into my earnings to take care of them, then I\’ve got something to say about the size of your family…
——— why, then, are you not mandating condoms ? you could be a condom cop making sure that every person who hasn\’t paid a state bond is using a condom ? a head is a head isn\’t it ?
———– and the 85% of two-vehicle accidents which are the fault of the suv/car-driver? is it ok to punish the recipient of the violence by requiring a six-pointed star on top of being killed and injured ? . . .
Thanks for your comment Charlie. I spent 1 and 1/2 years is nam. I lost my brother over there. That ought to be worth something. If I have an accident on my bike..I will pay for it myself. I will stay out of your pockets.
car driver and extensive rider education is the only way to prevent MC crashes. when a state will alloow any kid 16 years old to own a bike that is capable of 200 mph with a very rudementry knowdge of how to operate a motorcycle, then i place the blame on the government for not enacting stricter licensing and education laws!!!!!
most bike crashes, and i mean MOST, are caused by some form of jackassery or another committed by someone in a car. i’ve been sideswiped by a jerk who was just trying to play hardass to impress the friends in his car. i have a near-miss at least once a week because of some buttplug talking on a cellphone, trying to change lanes right on top of me, puling out of somewhere when my bike is directly in front of them and in full view cuz they just don’t give a damn. perhaps riding without a helmet wouldn’t prove so fatal if those on four wheels paid a little more attention to your driving. your phone call, your radio, your burger and fries in the passenger seat, your grotesquely misled attitude that you just have to be the car in front of the line…none of these are as important as a human life. wake up when you’re behind the wheel, folks, cuz human lives are in your hands.
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Um wearing or not wearing a helmut while riding a motorcycle is NOT an infringement on any civil right. Please point out where this is a civil right. People screaming and cying saying their civil rights are being violated over something like this really makes that person look and sound really stupid. Next thing you will be saying is that having to wear clothes is an infringement upon your civil rights. Please. Grow. Up.
——— when YOU have the right to order ME to buy YOU the ice cream for your next party, you\’ve infringed on my civil rights.
when YOU have the right to tell me what to WEAR, i\’ll have regressed to a childlike state and you\’ll have advanced to being my nanny . . .
in the meantime, stay out of my closet . . .
Did you really just compare being made to wear a helmet to the holocaust?
Wow.
Why is it necessary to resort to name calling because you disagree with someone? Why am I an \”idiot\” because I \”choose\” to prefer riding without a helmet? I have full insurance coverage. I started riding a motorcycle over 40 years ago. I have not had a single accident.
Helmets will entumb a smart brain but not because the gov. says so. Freedom to choose is why I spent a year in Nam. Should I Be Sorry?
Thank you for your service to our country, Charlie. My original point was your personal freedom shouldn\’t enable you to dip into my pocket to pay for your care, long term or otherwise, when a traumatic head injury arises out of an un-helmeted accident. That\’s all. It\’s just like aid to families with dependant children; in our country, you can have as many kids as you want, but when you start reaching into my earnings to take care of them, then I\’ve got something to say about the size of your family…
…your personal freedom shouldn\’t enable you to dip into my pocket to pay for your care, long term or otherwise, when a traumatic head injury arises out of an un-helmeted accident.
———– car-drivers\’ head injuries dip into MY pocket ten times more than m\’clsts (even potentially) dip into yours.
…like aid to families with dependant children; you can have as many kids as you want, but when you start reaching into my earnings to take care of them, then I\’ve got something to say about the size of your family…
——— why, then, are you not mandating condoms ? you could be a condom cop making sure that every person who hasn\’t paid a state bond is using a condom ? a head is a head isn\’t it ?
———– and the 85% of two-vehicle accidents which are the fault of the suv/car-driver? is it ok to punish the recipient of the violence by requiring a six-pointed star on top of being killed and injured ? . . .
Thanks for your comment Charlie. I spent 1 and 1/2 years is nam. I lost my brother over there. That ought to be worth something. If I have an accident on my bike..I will pay for it myself. I will stay out of your pockets.
http://www.knoxnews.com/news/2009/apr/13/farragut-man-killed-hit-and-run-crash/
car driver and extensive rider education is the only way to prevent MC crashes. when a state will alloow any kid 16 years old to own a bike that is capable of 200 mph with a very rudementry knowdge of how to operate a motorcycle, then i place the blame on the government for not enacting stricter licensing and education laws!!!!!
most bike crashes, and i mean MOST, are caused by some form of jackassery or another committed by someone in a car. i’ve been sideswiped by a jerk who was just trying to play hardass to impress the friends in his car. i have a near-miss at least once a week because of some buttplug talking on a cellphone, trying to change lanes right on top of me, puling out of somewhere when my bike is directly in front of them and in full view cuz they just don’t give a damn. perhaps riding without a helmet wouldn’t prove so fatal if those on four wheels paid a little more attention to your driving. your phone call, your radio, your burger and fries in the passenger seat, your grotesquely misled attitude that you just have to be the car in front of the line…none of these are as important as a human life. wake up when you’re behind the wheel, folks, cuz human lives are in your hands.