ALWAYS WEAR YOUR SEAT BELTS AND YOU WON’T HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT IT!................
Stage 1: seat belts are about SAAAAAFETY
Stage 2: We’re going to pass a seat belt law. But they will be a secondary offense ie the police can’t stop you merely for a seat belt violation. Fines will be minimal because we’re just trying to promote SAAAAFETY!
Stage 3: Seat belt laws are now a primary offense. Because it’s all about SAAAAAFETY!
Stage 4: We have a cutesy slogan! Click It Or Ticket! Because if you’re intelligent enough to obtain a license and drive a large, heavy vehicle at 70 mph you still need a dumb slogan devised by a roomful of overpaid bureaucrats!
Stage 5: We’re conducting East German style checkpoints not just for DUI but for baby car seats and for seat belt use! 4th Amendment? It’s written on parchment, man! This is about SAAAAFETY!
Stage 6: That primary offense will now cost as much as a speeding ticket! And sorry if your insurance premiums go up drastically for a single ticket! But hey, State Farm made a nice contribution to our campaigns! Did we mention it’s about SAAAAFETY?
Here in Texas, they'll nail ya for not wearing a seatbelt, yet a person can hop on a motorcycle with no helmet, no seatbelt, no airbags...no nothing. Perfectly legal.
It is illegal to drink and drive. Not drunk driving, drinking a beer on the way home from a hard dayz work, but you can stop at a pub on the way home and have a beer or maybe even two and legally drive home.
Bars can sell alcohol till 2am on Friday/Saturday nights, but drink it, get pulled over...go to the poky. Could it be tax dollars keeping the sale of alcohol till 2am...legal?
I want the gubbamint out of our lives.
Been wearing my seatbelt every time for over 30 years.
Wearing a seatbelt is a habit for me.
If I had been wearing a seat belt when my car was hit by a drunk driver back in 1970; I would have been dead for the last 45 years.
Coercive statism at its worst.
Revenue.
Eating out our sustenance.
This campaign started yesterday in Wisconsin and will be enforced until the end of the month.
FReep Mail me if you want on, or off, this Wisconsin interest ping list.
I have come to realize that laws such as this are driven by an unholy alliance between State Governments and Insurance companies who have a vested interest in minimizing damage claims.
The Insurance companies get the States to do their dirty work for them, but the State should not be in the business of imposing restrictions to people's freedom to protect the interests of a third party.
Click-it or Tick-it
The first time I saw this sign, I was south bound on I-25 north of Colorado Springs, CO.
The hair on the back of my neck bristled.
I thought I had suddenly been transformed to Nazi Germany.
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I had the very same reaction when I first saw this on FR:
Cruz-or-Lose
This is worse than Hitler!
It’s for the CHILDREN......except that school buses don’t have seat belts.
Wearing your seatbelt is a fool-proof way of avoiding one.
Yup. You cops get out there and raise as much revenue as you can from this. Know though, that though it is a safe and profitable workday, that you are, once again, proving how worthless you are for actually protecting the public. We see what you actually care about investing time in. If you act like highwaymen, you’ll be treated like one.
Jackboot Revenue collectors in action.
For those who would like to see the gruesome effects of no seatbelts, you can go to google and view the aftermath. Search on: not wearing seatbelt then click on images.
Wish my brother had seen this about 4 hours ago. He got a $45 dollar ticket.