Author Topic: Finally, a seatbelt even Lazs would love...maybe (Read 844 times)

DiabloTX · « **on:** February 05, 2008, 02:46:14 AM »

Get your own tiddy bear!

So now, no more tight seatbelts aross your chest, Lazs. You can actually reach across the seat to lower the passenger window and enjoy that clean, fresh socialist Cali air!

lazs2 · « **Reply #1 on:** February 05, 2008, 08:41:39 AM »

why would anyone need such a thing? I have been told that the seatbelts are very comfortable now and that they do not restrict movement in any way?

I have a better plan... I have two old cars that have lap belts. I have a lincoln that is invisible to police.. in the lincoln I simply wrap the stupid belt around the headrest. I have put 50,000 miles on this car without wearing one.

I don't ride in other peoples cars but maybe a few miles a year. Some, in cars with lap belts only... a few where I have to wear a modern seatbelt.. I move the chest thing around behind me.

I will probly build a suicide door lincoln in the future and it will have lap belts. or none.. but.. I never have minded lap belts in any case.

lazs

DmonSlyr · « **Reply #2 on:** February 05, 2008, 08:44:21 AM »

why dont you wear a seatbelt. they actually saved my life one time!

lasersailor184 · « **Reply #3 on:** February 05, 2008, 08:48:36 AM »

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Originally posted by DmonSlyr
why dont you wear a seatbelt. they actually saved my life one time!

It has very little to do with whether or not a seatbelt does save lives, but whether or not the government has the right to make you do it "For your own safety."

I personally wear a seatbelt out of habit, but I believe that the government had no right to tell people how to live.

lazs2 · « **Reply #4 on:** February 05, 2008, 08:51:03 AM »

How do you know that? seriously.

I can show you pics of cars... one corvair I was in.. that are as bad as any wreck you have seen where the occupants were not wearing seatbelts and lived.. I can show you what look like mild crashes where the seatbelt wearing occupant died.

Not saying you don't stand a better chance in a wreck when wearing seatbelts... just saying that it is pretty silly the claims that are made about it.

How can anyone really know if a person will live or not in any wreck or... if he would have been saved or killed?

lazs

lazs2 · « **Reply #5 on:** February 05, 2008, 08:59:17 AM »

but diablo does have a point.. If I could get her to sit on my lap I would strap in.

lazs

DiabloTX · « **Reply #6 on:** February 05, 2008, 02:00:03 PM »

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Originally posted by lazs2
but diablo does have a point.. If I could get her to sit on my lap I would strap in.

lazs

Hehe, I knew it!

Holden McGroin · « **Reply #7 on:** February 05, 2008, 02:02:17 PM »

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Originally posted by lazs2
I have a lincoln that is invisible to police..

cool

MORAY37 · « **Reply #8 on:** February 05, 2008, 02:04:59 PM »

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Originally posted by lasersailor184
It has very little to do with whether or not a seatbelt does save lives, but whether or not the government has the right to make you do it "For your own safety."

I personally wear a seatbelt out of habit, but I believe that the government had no right to tell people how to live.

Driving, sir, is a privilege, not a right. A privilege may be granted or taken away upon direct observation of or lack of following any rule stated.

This may be where your idealism is screwy.

lazs2 · « **Reply #9 on:** February 05, 2008, 02:06:21 PM »

yep... they don't even glance at lincoln town cars. It must be that they don't see me.

lazs

john9001 · « **Reply #10 on:** February 05, 2008, 02:06:57 PM »

a stealth lincoln.

trax1 · « **Reply #11 on:** February 05, 2008, 02:14:33 PM »

I crashed my car going over 100mph 10 years ago, it was me and 2 friends, I had no seatbelt on and neither did the guy in the back, the guy in the passenger seat had his on, the car ended up flipping through the air backwards, the guy in the back went out the rear window and luckily walked away with minor injuries, I was thrown out the back as well but didnt clear the car and ended up having my upper torso crushed by the car, I've paralyzed from the waist down ever since , now the guy in the passenger seat who had a belt on walked away without a scratch, and I never get in a car without a seatbelt on anymore.

lazs2 · « **Reply #12 on:** February 05, 2008, 02:41:48 PM »

I am sure that seatbelts can and do save lives. I would hesitate to say which times tho.. even in your case. the guy might have died with a seatbelt on if he had been in the back seat and someone in his seat without one might have not been injured. but.....

Not for me to say.. If you want to wear one then I give you permission.. it is none of my business.

Truth is.. I wear the lap belts in my Elky and my Healey. I won't hardly ever get in the car with someone else driving tho... seatbelts don't make me feel better about it.

You do not have to wear seatbelts in a limmo.. the limmos you don't have to wear em in are... guess what? Lincolns... Are they magically more safe than my exact car? of course not. They are simply allowed choice while you and I are not.

You have choice in taxi cabs.. in a school bus you have no real choice.. you don't even have the things available.

lazs

trax1 · « **Reply #13 on:** February 05, 2008, 02:58:41 PM »

Don't get me wrong, I still think it should be your choice to wear or not, it's your life, it's just for me I've seen what happens when you don't, believe me I always think about "if I had only done this or that differently", and one of those is wearing my seatbelt.

lazs2 · « **Reply #14 on:** February 06, 2008, 07:56:38 AM »

Don't get me wrong either..

I say you should not only be able to wear one if you like but that the manufacturers should provide em in cars or.. you should have to have em... install em.. for all passengers.. wear em or not tho.. your choice.

I wouldn't even tell you that you can't drive 100 mph if there is no one else you would endanger. I won't tell someone who is crippled from a motorcycle or mountain climbing or boating or whatever that they should not be able to do those things.

Life is dangerous.. life is fun and risky. you pick the things that you are willing to do and the risks you are willing to take to do em..

The government should not be involved in that so long as you are only risking your own neck.

Americans from the 50's or sixties or even seventies would be outraged by the amount of nanny state crap we put up with these days but.. the worthless hippie socialists of the sixties are running things now.. they always wanted to run peoples lives... to create utopia.. and now they have the power.. can't believe what wussies we have become.. what busybodies we have become.. like a bunch of old women.

lazs