helmet laws yes or no ?
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The average medical claim from a motorcycle crash rose by more than one-fifth last year in Michigan after the state stopped requiring all riders to wear helmets, according to an insurance industry study. Across the nation, motorcyclists opposed to mandatory helmet use have been chipping away at state helmet laws for years while crash deaths have been on the rise.
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I have gotten used to riding with a helmet but if california put an end to the helmet law I'm not sure if I would wear one or not, for long rides I think I would but for around town I may not.
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Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/leisure/2013/05/ ... z2UtdMbD6j
I have gotten used to riding with a helmet but if california put an end to the helmet law I'm not sure if I would wear one or not, for long rides I think I would but for around town I may not.
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I'm against both laws
Heck, with everyone texting while driving, riding a motorcycle is nuts alone.
Last year someone died in a NY helmet protest ride. Coronors said he would have lived if he was wearing a helmet.
i.r.o.n.y.
I think the tools who wear shorts and t-shirts here in Canada are morons flying down the highway. I would only heap a new nickname on them without a helmet.
The poison from the poison stream caught up to you ELEVEN years ago and you floated out of here. Sept. 14, 08
95% of my motorcycle miles were helmted miles, but i did enjoy the non helmet miles as well.
obviously, helmets help...as does leather.
do you require proper shoes, pants, jacket and gloves as well?
but regarless of your choice....if you go for a ride, and have the helmet hanging off the side of the bike, you look like an idiot
So in a way you agree with the laws cause you abide by them.
The poison from the poison stream caught up to you ELEVEN years ago and you floated out of here. Sept. 14, 08
sure it is your choice, but it should not be on your insurance company to pay for the liftime of care for you due to your traumatic brain injury. these things are preventable.
"Well, you tell him that I don't talk to suckas."
you guys are serious about your helmet law.
was in windsor...and some douche stole my helmet. i filed a report...and on the way back to the states, i was yelled at by a group of motorcyclists...and then pulled over...no ticket, as i had my report...grabbed a bite to eat and was yelled at again by somebody in a car before i could get back over the bridge.
at the time, MI still had a helmet law....and i lived in Ohio...drove from detroit to ohio without a single issue
what he said.
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Submitted by R.McElroy on Mon, 2005-10-17 18:05
"...Skydiving was definitely the scariest thing I've ever done. Let me ask you this question in regards to the skydiving: what is the point of the helmet in the skydiving? I mean, can you kinda make it? You jump out of that plane and that chute doesn't open, the helmet is now wearing you for protection. Later on the helmet's talking with the other helmets going "It's a good thing that he was there or I would have hit the ground directly."
There are many things that we can point to that proof that the human being is not smart. The helmet is my personal favorite. The fact that we had to invent the helmet. Now why did we invent the helmet? Well, because we were participating in many activities that were cracking our heads. We looked at the situation. We chose not to avoid these activities, but to just make little plastic hats so that we can continue our head-cracking lifestyles.
The only thing dumber than the helmet is the helmet law, the point of which is to protect a brain that is functioning so poorly, it's not even trying to stop the cracking of the head that it's in..."
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Winnipeg 2011
St. Paul 2014
It's like warning labels, don't exceed taking more than 8 of these pills in a 24 hr period. Good to know. Nothing stopping me from downing the entire bottle if i feel like it.
i believe in mandatory seat belt and helmet laws ... obviously, you can't expect the gov't to mandate and regulate safety but here in Canada - the majority of health care is publicly funded ... if an injury or severity of an injury could have been prevented - we, as a society need to ensure that safety has some level of priority ...
you would hope that you wouldn't have to mandate this but people are stupid ... that can't be argued ... and i know there is a faction who believe in individual freedoms ... i support that but this isn't the battle for those freedoms to be fought on imo ...
When I was in my teens, my sister's boyfriend would take me on rides through Laurel Canyon - lots of winding roads. I never once wore a helmet and now chalk that up to the stupidity and sense of invulnerability of youth.
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No, the risk is not yours and yours alone. If you get in a bike accident without wearing a helmet, or in a car accident without wearing your seatbelt, your medical bills go through the roof and guess whose premiums go up? Mine.
So yes, I am ALL for helmet laws. Saying that insurance companies can opt not to cover your medical bills is not a solution. Many patients would be unable to pay the bills themselves and would probably have to declare bankruptcy. The hospitals have to foot the bill and guess how they recover the cost? Rising procedure/visit costs that get passed on to everyone else...including insurance companies.
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Ya, but they'll apologize for it at some point.
So you were scared into wearing one or common sense said to wear one? Either way as you have stated with your personal stats, the law works.
The poison from the poison stream caught up to you ELEVEN years ago and you floated out of here. Sept. 14, 08
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St. Paul 2014
hasn't that kind of how been how it works anyway?
Someone wants to not have a helmet on who am I to say you should have to do it. It should be up to your insurance company, don't think someone shouldn't use a helmet? put it in a contract that voids their insurance if they were found to not be wearing a helmet. It doesn't need to be a fine-able offense.
People always don't need to be forced to be saved, sometimes we just need to let nature take its course...
It is terrifying when you are too stupid to know who is dumb
- Joe Rogan
these things happen. i have seen it happen when i had to do emergency room observations on the midnight shift on a friday or saturday night. you wanna see some fucked up shit? try doing that shift.
"Well, you tell him that I don't talk to suckas."
I think it's a slippery slope it we start denying insurance claims based on lifestyle.
Something tell me the amount insurance companies pay out in claims to helmet-less riders or those not wearing seat-belts is minuscule compared to what they pay out for lifestyle choice's.
But I'm in Canada and we don't deny medical coverage for lifestyle choices.
"Life Is What Happens To You When Your Busy Making Other Plans" John Lennon
Godfather.
not to be a wise guy but the same people that pay for illegal's probably....
Godfather.
An illfitting helmet is as bad or worse than no helmet at all.
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Not today Sir, Probably not tomorrow.............................................. bayfront arena st. pete '94
you're finally here and I'm a mess................................................... nationwide arena columbus '10
memories like fingerprints are slowly raising.................................... first niagara center buffalo '13
another man ..... moved by sleight of hand...................................... joe louis arena detroit '14
They probably seen the plates and thought: fuck we don't want to be using our tax money on the knob from out of town with no helmet if he goes down Damn americans taking advantage of our health care. put on a fucking helmet!
The poison from the poison stream caught up to you ELEVEN years ago and you floated out of here. Sept. 14, 08
Good point. I think not wearing a helmet is idiotic but don't really feel like seat belts and helmets should be legislated, talk about a slippery slope. But your point about denying claims is valid. Higher premiums would be a legitimate way to regulate 'choice'.
Seems my preconceptions are what should have been burned...
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