Originally posted by: Fausto1
Originally posted by: ObiDon
I think here in Oregon, it's not just responsible...it's The Law!Actually, I'm pleased to see so many kids wearing helmets while riding bikes these days.
It's officially a law here in GA as well if you're under 16. Mostly to give parents leverage to make the kids wear the helmets.
These are bicycle helmets dumbass. For kids. Kids fall down a lot. Brain damage is bad. Helmets prevent this. What adults want to do on motorcycles is thier own business. Read the damn thread before you start bitching about nothing next time.Originally posted by: CPA
Originally posted by: Fausto1
Originally posted by: ObiDon
I think here in Oregon, it's not just responsible...it's The Law!Actually, I'm pleased to see so many kids wearing helmets while riding bikes these days.
It's officially a law here in GA as well if you're under 16. Mostly to give parents leverage to make the kids wear the helmets.
It's not to give leverage to anyone but a small group of nannie-state supporters.
Originally posted by: Fausto1
These are bicycle helmets dumbass. For kids. Kids fall down a lot. Brain damage is bad. Helmets prevent this. What adults want to do on motorcycles is thier own business. Read the damn thread before you start bitching about nothing next time.Originally posted by: CPA
Originally posted by: Fausto1
Originally posted by: ObiDon
I think here in Oregon, it's not just responsible...it's The Law!Actually, I'm pleased to see so many kids wearing helmets while riding bikes these days.
It's officially a law here in GA as well if you're under 16. Mostly to give parents leverage to make the kids wear the helmets.
It's not to give leverage to anyone but a small group of nannie-state supporters.
As they are in GA. But that wasn't what I was talking about. Bicycle helmets for kids and moto helmets for adults are different issues. Not only is a kid not cogniscent of the potential to become a vegetable if they smack their head hard enough, they also have a propensity to fall down and smack their heads (see stats above). I always wear one because I don't think the extra comfort of not wearing one is worth potentially getting my head mashed and either widowing my wife of leaving her married to a turnip. I can make this decision or not as I am an adult.Originally posted by: ffmcobalt
Originally posted by: Fausto1
These are bicycle helmets dumbass. For kids. Kids fall down a lot. Brain damage is bad. Helmets prevent this. What adults want to do on motorcycles is thier own business. Read the damn thread before you start bitching about nothing next time.Originally posted by: CPA
Originally posted by: Fausto1
Originally posted by: ObiDon
I think here in Oregon, it's not just responsible...it's The Law!Actually, I'm pleased to see so many kids wearing helmets while riding bikes these days.
It's officially a law here in GA as well if you're under 16. Mostly to give parents leverage to make the kids wear the helmets.
It's not to give leverage to anyone but a small group of nannie-state supporters.
Helmets are required in motorcycles for everyone in Oregon, too.
nik
Originally posted by: Fausto1
These are bicycle helmets dumbass. For kids. Kids fall down a lot. Brain damage is bad. Helmets prevent this. What adults want to do on motorcycles is thier own business. Read the damn thread before you start bitching about nothing next time.Originally posted by: CPA
Originally posted by: Fausto1
Originally posted by: ObiDon
I think here in Oregon, it's not just responsible...it's The Law!Actually, I'm pleased to see so many kids wearing helmets while riding bikes these days.
It's officially a law here in GA as well if you're under 16. Mostly to give parents leverage to make the kids wear the helmets.
It's not to give leverage to anyone but a small group of nannie-state supporters.
Originally posted by: BooneRebel
This just in: State legislators have suggested that all 9th graders be issued helmets before entering the padded lockerroom. A 2/3 majority vote carried the motion and it will be added to the ballot during the next election.
First: I apologise for calling you a dumbass. It just irked me that you started in with the nanny-state thing in the middle of what was an otherwise lighthearted thread. We were all having a good chuckle about the stupid stuff we did as kids and you just tossed in that one inflammatory line and left it.Originally posted by: CPA
Originally posted by: Fausto1
These are bicycle helmets dumbass. For kids. Kids fall down a lot. Brain damage is bad. Helmets prevent this. What adults want to do on motorcycles is thier own business. Read the damn thread before you start bitching about nothing next time.Originally posted by: CPA
Originally posted by: Fausto1
Originally posted by: ObiDon
I think here in Oregon, it's not just responsible...it's The Law!Actually, I'm pleased to see so many kids wearing helmets while riding bikes these days.
It's officially a law here in GA as well if you're under 16. Mostly to give parents leverage to make the kids wear the helmets.
It's not to give leverage to anyone but a small group of nannie-state supporters.
Fausto1, why don't you try to have an intelligent conversation without resorting to name-calling.
I read the thread. I know the issue. I have 4 kids, 2 of which ride bikes and one which will start soon. I don't care what the CDC says or the government for that matter. The point is I don't need someone else mandating how I raise my children. I don't need you or anyone else to tell me what is good or bad for my children. If we made laws for everything the CDC studies or recommends we would live in a friggin bubble.
When I was in 9th grade, I was sitting on a bench in a locker room. The bench somehow fell over causing me to whack me head against a concrete wall. I almost blacked out and it hurt like hell. Should I have been wearing a helmet, should the walls be padded?
Now let's see if you can respond with a mature post.
Obviously not, but the odds of a bench randomly falling over is extremely slim. The odds of a kid falling off his bike and banging his head on the ground are pretty high so that's not really a good example.When I was in 9th grade, I was sitting on a bench in a locker room. The bench somehow fell over causing me to whack me head against a concrete wall. I almost blacked out and it hurt like hell. Should I have been wearing a helmet, should the walls be padded?
...and then it's just fun!Originally posted by: Rallispec
Originally posted by: Lonyo
I did a ring of fire once around someone with some lighter fluid. (it was indoors tho, so no grass was harmed).
BB guns rock, never fired one at a person before though.
its all fun and games until somebody gets a BB in the ear.