Exactly. Hlemets will not prevent accidents. Only YOU can prevent forest fires and or accidents. In the case of motorcycle accidents no amount of armor, helmetry, draggin jeans, titanium underwear, fancy schmancy jackets...none of that will save your keister if you just happen to be at the wrong place at the wrong time and some four wheeled wonder hits you at a high rate of speed. You will be just as dead as if you were riding in your freaking birthday suit.
Once again ...it is in states where the law allows....A PERSONAL CHOICE.
In states where helmets are optional thousands of motorcyclists are all riding right now without helmets. They represent a cross section of all of us..professionals, ditch diggers, doctors, lawyers, soldiers, sailors, young men, old men and women....and we can sure assume they are all intelligent to a degree and informed on the benefits of safety gear of all types.
It just means they CHOOSE to live a little free for the moment.
Some of us regardless of who or where we live and what we do for a living CHOOSE to willingly take the risk. We should be able to do so without any Safety Gestapos continually lecturing us when some celelbrity football weenie gets hurt. Remember if John Doe gets hurt no one gives a rats nest nor will it elicit any undue controversy ...it wont even make the front page of most local newspapers.
We might as well stay in bed all day and simply not venture out at all.
IN other words...all safety Nazis are hereby invited to Kiss my nether regions.
Last edited by clanrickarde; 06/17/2006 10:00 AM.
