Re: YO Rich!

Unfortunately, it is not possible to legislate sense in more than it is possible to legislate taste. It's kind of like teaching a pig to sing -- it wastes your time, and it bores the pig. The only problem I have with people who refuse to wear proper safety equipment is the increase in my insurance premiums.
zem
----- Original Message ----- From: "Bonnie Holmes" <holmesbm@usit.net>
To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
Sent: Thursday, April 20, 2006 5:52 PM
Subject: RE: [CHAT] YO Rich!


Amen...two of my sisters work in surgery...both say that injuries often
involve head injuries...when you hit something when moving, your head acts
as the tip of a bullet. They have the results of too many accidents
involving bikes and motorcycles wo helmets...most are never the same...many
become vegetables. Maybe, it would be good for those who are getting
licensed to see the repercussions and sign a waiver before getting a
license.


[Original Message]
From: Bonnie & Bill Morgan <wmorgan972@ameritech.net>
To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
Date: 4/20/2006 10:43:59 AM
Subject: RE: [CHAT] YO Rich!

It is necessary to mandate that people without the sense to get in out of
the rain must wear their helmets to protect their brain buckets only

because
without such a law, they would not. On the other hand, without the law,
there may be an improvement in the gene pool. (Did I really say that?)
Perhaps that is why Ohio repealed their motorcycle helmet law but kept the
law that says a motorcycle must drive with the headlight on.

I loved riding with Bill on his bike, but he is a stickler when it comes
to

safety.  All kidding aside, around here, it is mandatory for people to

wear

bicycle helmets, use seat belts and such, but not to wear a motorcycle
helmet.  (Tell me how this infringes on their rights?)  One can live

without

an arm or leg, with scars and various other injuries, but in an accident,

I

vote for protecting the head.  I don't want to be a vegetable somewhere

and

I don't think most folks would.  However, I see so many people (not just
teens) riding without appropriate protective gear.  It really gets my

blood
to boiling when I see kids on the back of a parent's bike and neither are
wearing a helmet, in shorts and short sleeves and "flip-flops. And then
they ride in a car's blind spot without any thought or they tail gate, zip
between two cars in a double lane and other such nonsense.

O.K., I'm off my soapbox now. I'm going to go meditate in the garden,
pull

weeds and see if I can get my blood pressure down.

Blessings,
Bonnie (SW OH - zone 5)

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-gardenchat@hort.net [o*@hort.net] On

Behalf

Of Cersgarden@aol.com
Sent: Thursday, April 20, 2006 9:56 AM
To: gardenchat@hort.net
Subject: Re: [CHAT] YO Rich!

In a message dated 4/19/06 10:28:44 PM, red4@omni-tech.net writes:


> Nebraska law requires a helmet, unlike IA
>

Great law however I find it difficult to understand why we must mandate
someone to wear protective gear.   Iowa passed the law a number of yrs

ago &

it was
repealed.   How does it differ from a seat belt, duh!   Enjoy your rides,
Rich!
     Ceres

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