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Re: another darwin candidate
« Reply #30 on: July 04, 2011, 06:22:06 PM »
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Re: another darwin candidate
« Reply #31 on: July 04, 2011, 08:18:58 PM »
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I too have cracked a couple helmets, walked away wiser and alive.
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Re: another darwin candidate
« Reply #32 on: July 04, 2011, 08:36:24 PM »
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Re: another darwin candidate
« Reply #33 on: July 04, 2011, 09:01:11 PM »
    I dont ride, but if I did, Id wear a helmet,leather etc. I live in NH, we dont have to wear them. Lots of folks scream down the road in a pair of cutoff jean shorts, a bandana, and sunglasses. A good family friend was wearing just that attire one day. He wiped out and spent the next month pulling the sheets off his scabs, and picking gravel out if his butt.
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Re: another darwin candidate
« Reply #34 on: July 04, 2011, 09:35:58 PM »
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Re: another darwin candidate
« Reply #35 on: July 04, 2011, 09:40:53 PM »
Quote from: CAP1 on July 04, 2011, 05:04:30 PM
what's your opinion on people riding in shorts, and flip flops?
That people are idiots by nature.
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Re: another darwin candidate
« Reply #36 on: July 04, 2011, 09:49:58 PM »
As I said in another thread, I don't understand why they can mandate seatbelts but not mandate helmets. That said, I always wear my helmet on my bike, no matter how hot it is, only recently have I stopped wearing my jacket on the really hot days. Riding around with a black leather jacket when it is 95 degrees with high humidity was actually decreasing my safety due to heatstroke.

When it comes to minors, they should be mandated to wear seatbelts in a car or helmets on a bike until they are old enough to make their own decisions legally.
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Re: another darwin candidate
« Reply #37 on: July 04, 2011, 09:50:03 PM »
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Re: another darwin candidate
« Reply #38 on: July 05, 2011, 08:49:17 AM »
Quote from: APDrone on July 04, 2011, 08:36:24 PM
In both cases, the person at fault is the person that caused the collision.  Nobody else.  Had that person not committed the error, the deaths would have not occurred.



That is absolutely insane.  Nobody ought to die just because human beings aren't 100% perfect decision makers.

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Re: another darwin candidate
« Reply #39 on: July 05, 2011, 08:53:38 AM »
Quote from: eagl on July 04, 2011, 06:24:08 AM
Another Darwin award candidate.  Motorcycle rider in a protest against helmet laws falls off his bike, lands on his head, and dies.  State trooper calls the accident survivable if the rider had been wearing a helmet.

http://news.yahoo.com/ny-motorcyclist-helmet-protest-hits-head-dies-225710487.html

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State trooper is a par-time doctor too ehh?  Did he at list get to write the man a ticket?
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Re: another darwin candidate
« Reply #40 on: July 05, 2011, 09:07:06 AM »
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Re: another darwin candidate
« Reply #41 on: July 05, 2011, 09:50:14 AM »
Quote from: Shuffler on July 05, 2011, 09:07:06 AM
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Ahhhh, but the insurance company did not make it part of your contract to have a sit belt or a helmet on, did they?  Nop, they were happy to sign it and get the money.  Why don;t they just make it part of the contract that you will not be covered if you are not wearing a helmet or sit belt?  Then I can choose the company I want to insure with.

Second, the medical personnel is not absorbing anything.  They are just getting rich feeding on peoples suffering charging ridicules prices for everything.  I have yet to see a doctor live an "average" life.  They have taken an oath and they should focus in fulfilling that and how to get richer instead of if you deserved your injuries.

That been said, I always have my sit belt on and riding without a helmet and gear is just for idiots, but hey, we are supposed to be a free country.  If it was not for the state collecting money and the insurance companies collecting but not wanting to pay these laws would not exist.   But why stop there?  Lets make a law that does not allow you to to spend your money in a stupid way (defined by the experts such as police) and write you tickets for it.  After all, why should we all be burden by your stupid spending when you file for bankruptcy or state assistance?

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Quote from: 2bighorn on December 15, 2010 at 03:46:18 PM
Dedalos pretty much ruined DA.

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Re: another darwin candidate
« Reply #42 on: July 05, 2011, 10:10:58 AM »
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Re: another darwin candidate
« Reply #43 on: July 05, 2011, 10:26:24 AM »
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Quote from: 2bighorn on December 15, 2010 at 03:46:18 PM
Dedalos pretty much ruined DA.

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Re: another darwin candidate
« Reply #44 on: July 05, 2011, 10:34:53 AM »
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