Listen Kevin, if you can calm down for a minute, let me tell ya somethin' here...
Seeing as how this thread is in the "Legislation Forum", you may have a point that this thing is "political in nature" to a certain degree, and maybe, JUST maybe, instead of goin' the "I don't want the government taking away 'my sport' of countin' the morons not wearin' their helmets out there" tact, maybe, just maybe, I SHOULD HAVE said somethin' like..."Well, I sure hope those Connecticut Yankees CHOOSE to wear their helmets while they're on their way to Hartford for this Anti-Helmet Law Rally".
BUT, let me tell you WHY I feel so friggin' STRONGLY about people wearing their helmets while out on their bikes.
It's because, THANKS to my wearing a helmet some 13 years ago after some kid cager pulled in front of me while I was goin' down the road about 40MPH on my brand new Triumph Sprint AND my head hitting the asphalt at just a little less than that speed, causing my helmet to crack almost in two, and YET I was almost immediately able to get up and hobble over to my brand new Sprint which was now totaled and exclaim something to the effect of "OH GEEZ! MY BRAND NEW BIKE!!!", and then hear that kid tell me that famous refrain, "I'm sorry, I didn't see you!", and STILL understand what that kid was saying...well...THAT'S WHY I'm probably still around today to BUG YOU!!!
(I know, I know...you NOW probably have another reason to hate helmets, HUH?!)
(and no, don't worry...I'm gonna stop at eight of those "rofl" little gremlin suckers)
Last edited by Dwight; 08/07/2008 10:26 PM.
