Why are there no anti-seatbelt groups?

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DainBramaged

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Originally posted by: mugs
Originally posted by: chambersc
(5 January 2005, Nebraska) In September of his senior year at the University of Nebraska, 21-year-old Derek wrote an impassioned declaration of independence from seatbelts for his college newspaper. Although "intrusive and ridiculous" seatbelt laws saved 6100 lives a year, according to statistics from the U.S. Congress, Derek concluded with the statement, "If I want to be the jerk that flirts with death, I should be able to do that."

Derek "was a bright young boy, a 4.0" majoring in five subjects and planning to attend law school. He was also smart enough to tutor friends in subjects he didn't even take. But good grades don't equate with common sense.

Derek was returning from a holiday in San Antonio, Texas. The driver of the Ford Explorer and his front seat passenger both wore seatbelts. Only Derek was willing to buck the system, sitting without a seatbelt in the back seat because, in the words of his newspaper column, he belonged to the "die-hard group of non-wearers out there who simply do not wish to buckle up, no matter what the government does."

When the SUV hit a patch of ice, slid off US 80 and rolled several times, Derek, in an involuntary display of his freedom, was thrown from the vehicle. He died at the scene. The other occupants of the SUV, slaves to the seatbelt, survived with minor injuries.

Alcohol was not involved in the accident.

http://www.darwinawards.com/darwin/darwin2005-15.html

EDIT: So please, don't wear seatbelts. I need more meat to eat; I need more air to breathe; I need more space to inhabit.

Involuntary display of his freedom :D

That's awful. Awful funny. :laugh::eek:
 

IBuyUFO

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Originally posted by: JLGatsby
Originally posted by: swtethan
okay ill do an experiment, you stand there while i fling a 150lb sandbag at you @30mph (at the least)

How old are you? Do you have no common sense at all?

The odds of getting hit by a flying human body is about the same as shooting a bullet straight in the air and it coming down and hitting someone in the head, killing them.

The odds of your body hitting someone is so astronomical it's laughable. I mean seriously, like literally one in a million. I doubt if it's even happened before.

How good are the odds that your body rolls in front of someone's car when you get ejected and they try to avoid hitting only to roll over and get themselves killed? So what are you going to tell me next, that they should just run over you?