[Spridgets] Why I wear seatbelts...

[David Littlefield]

Texas does give motorcyclists a choice.  It requires those going without
helmets to carry additional medical insurance to offset the brain injury
costs.

David

On Tue, 18 Nov 2008 23:21:17 +0000 dlancer7676 at comcast.net writes:
> Ya know, I have heard the seatbelt/no seatbelt argument and the 
> motorcycle helmet/no motorcycle helmet argument I guess most of my 
> long life.  My dad, god bless him and his wonderful heart, hated 
> seat belts and would always point out that one incident where a guy 
> was killed and the investigators said if he HADN'T been wearing his 
> belt he might have lived. But my Dad still wore seat belts.  
> 
> I have concluded one thing, and I have written my State legislators 
> with my concern, and that is that if you are NOT wearing your 
> seatbelt or your motorcycle helmet and we are involved in an 
> accident with one another, then MY liability increases because of 
> YOUR stupid decision not to protect yourself.  Therefore, I would be 
> in favor of a law which provided CHOICE on whether to wear a 
> seatbelt or a motorcycle helmet AS LONG AS it ALSO RELEASES THE 
> OTHER DRIVER FROM LIABILITY IN THE EVENT OF A WRECK CAUSING INJURY 
> to your moronic head or body, regardless of fault (eleminates all 
> the legal wrangling and hookey-do, and if you protect yourself the 
> law wouldn't matter anyway).
> 
> There, simple solution to a stupid problem.  8^)
> 
> --David C.
> Snowmen fall from Heaven unassembled.
> 
> 
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