(OT) "No Helmet" advocate killed in SUV-on-bike crash

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Dan White
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Well, since it is 10.5 years since I broke my pack and a half a day (40, extra high tar and nicotine) addiction, I will point one thing out for our American friends

Americans cigarettes come in packs of 20, whereas Canadians buy theirs in

25, usually, although most brands you can get in 20s as well. So, the price isn't 4 times as high, but only 3-some times higher. We pay for our basic universal health care through "sin" taxes on smokes, gasoline, and alcohol and even junk food--four things that over a lifetime have a higher than average likelihood (compared to fresh air, walking, pure water and plain salads), of getting you into the health care system.

Jim Bartley on PEI--I've also saved something in the range of $50,000 since Jan 11, 1996

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George

Wht does this topic keep coming up in this thread?

George wrote:

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Neil Doune Anblomee

Gotcha Dave. I wasn't thinking about it from that point of view.

Chip

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cjdaytonjrnospam

(Swerving, or steering a thread..not sure which, or who is driving...)

Well that tears it.... Now you have really struck a nerve where a meaningful law should be immediately enacted. Salad.... More specifically.. Salad dressing bottles.. Why in the world do some bottles have a little squirt hole and some a huge gaping opening? Oh, I can see the reason if chunks of fromunda cheese are in there, but it isn't uniform. I drained the last dribble of some french dressing (no capital f for me) out of a restrictor plate bottle, and opened the new bottle and puked a half a cup onto my salad before I could stop the premature ejaculation of salad dressing. (Figures it was french dressing). I am writing to my Senator. I want a law passed for the protection of salad eaters everywhere. Imagine. I could have choked, or got it in my eyes and gone blind, or slipped on the floor and hit my head and had my wife pull the plugs on me after 16 years (or minutes, I forget exactly what she said last time we spoke).... Damnit..... Jeff

"George" wrote...

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Jeff Rice

Actually I think both should be mandatory for just the reasons given.

Chip

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cjdaytonjrnospam

"I am not one that advocates helment laws, but one that believes that we as a

I agree BUT why pick on helmet and seat belts only. Why not outlaw smoking, getting fat, cell phones while driving, alcohol, or lets go way out in left field and outlaw cars, boy could we save lots of lives there. I know,some will say some laws are better than none. If not careful all our rights will be gone. Now this is really OT in the OT department but just show how stupid laws can be. You can be fined for venting R134 in the atmosphere but you can spray the air from a can to dust off your computer etc all day. It is the same stuff. Why is it unlawful to let it out of an ac but not out of the can in the office?

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L.D.

Usually, it's the hoity toidy lah dee dah brands that have the tiny "dainty" squirt hole. I have learned this after shopping mucho times at the local upscale market and shopping at Big Lots and other dollar type stores.

See, it's the environment that you choose to live in (at any given time) that determines premature salad dressing accidents!

No charge for this sage advice.

Juts the feeling of satisfaction.

JT

(Who, in retirement, tends to buy the cheap stuff!)

Jeff Rice wrote:

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Grumpy AuContraire

I believe one or two far north-eastern states (CT and RI, maybe?) HAVE passed laws against cell phone usage while driving! I say "bring it on", but that's a knee-jerk reaction to the idiots who wander lane-to-lane and breeze through traffic signals while yakking into their phones when they SHOULD be paying attention to traffic!

I do NOT believe in passing laws to protect me from myself...but then, I wear my seatbelts and insist all my passengers wear theirs, too! AND my motorcycle doesn't even run right now, so the helmet issue is moot at this point because I'm not affected by it right now.

I consider motorcyclists without helmets to be the potential organ donor that might one day keep me alive through their stupidity. I just hope MY donor is an otherwise intelligent, moral person....just in case there is something to that 'gene-transfer' thing we see in the scary movies about an organ donor taking over a survivor's brain. I could probably use a few extra brain cells and a tad more common sense!!

Bob (I sure hope he also likes Studes!)

L.D. wrote:

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Bigbob62

I kin see it now... Ol' Big Bob gets an organ donation from a uppity hippie that hated cars, grew his own food (veggies only), insisted on finely manicured lawns and only traveled on an ancient Schwinn single speed bicycle with a "rainbow" bumper sticker...

JT

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karinhall

I don't know if it's still that way, but at Stanford University Hospital, they used to call them "doner-cycles."

Karl

Bigbob62 wrote:

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midlant

june bug on edge of jaw at 70..took the skin plum off.

--Shiva--

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me

To add to this statement:

I also know one guy in my home town who was run over while out riding dirt bikes with buddies of his and not wearing a helmet. The guy had his head run over by both wheels. This happened when he was 18, he's now 44 with the mentality of a 3 year old.

Lee

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Lee Aanderud

I went on an accident once where a ten wheeler ran over the bikers head and helmet. The helmet cracked and his head popped out like a grape. Just a little bleeding around the ears to show for it.

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Alex Magdaleno

Wassamattah? No kin play jumbo???

JT

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Grumpy AuContraire

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Robert Black

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