Gubment should require everyone be issued an expandable, padded, cast iron casket at birth...to be worn every time you leave home. As you grow, the casket expands to accomodate your growth. Then, when you die (at the age of 147), you can be buried in it.
If Johnny is shooshing downhill on a sled while not wearing a helmet and then cracks his little skull there is only the sled manufacturer with deep enough pockets to be worth suing and sled manufacturers have been defending against frivolous lawsuits for decades and have gotten pretty good at it.
Now new products like “sled head protection”(helmets have to specialize)will be untried and unproven long enough to pay out perhaps billions (remember,head injuries are expensive)to bloodsucking tort attorneys until the manufacturers finally either perfect the product or have experienced winning legal defense teams.
Either way,the bloodsuckers win.
Is there snow on the ground outside your home? Are your local politicians making your kids wear sled helmets yet? If not then watch them, because the next big Nanny State idea is to force your child to wear helmet while snow sledding. As per my decision last Month, I am allowing my articles that have no videos to be posted in full as Amos McCoy did this morning. .........
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These people would’ve totally freaked out at the downhill antics we would do. We used to turn the hose used to flood the local ice skating rink down some hills in the woods so we could ice skate down them. Man, what a gas, especially avoiding the big rocks at the side of the creek!
I doubt this will get anywhere in Connecticut. CT does not mandata helmet use for motorcylists. And we teach our kids how to fall off a toboggan when a tree is coming.
My sister (still) has a scar on her chin from hitting a snow bank some 45 or 50 years ago
That’s why I preferred the aluminum saucers with handles on the side. You can tip them up backwards when you’re about to hit a tree, thus saving your head (but seriously denting up the saucer).
I myself would personally laugh at my son if he wore a helmet sledding. That’s ok because they don’t allow sledding on public land here anyway and they enforce this on private property.
My 11 yo son hit the back of his head against a tree while sledding yesterday (the sled spun around), it left quite a knot. Gave him extra motivation to stay off his back at wrestling practice last night!
Will Americans EVER stand up for themselves??!!!
BWAHAHahahaha. We used to prop up the barbed wire with a stick ‘cause the fence was half-way down the hill, then just sled right under the sucker. Lost my hat more than once.
Heck, it wasn’t any fun if it wasn’t dangerous.
Geez. I’ve never known of anyone hurt while sledding, but I DO no of a girl whose leg was broken on a toboggan run. Maybe we need rails on the sides of toboggans. *\:^(
Geez. I’ve never known of anyone hurt while sledding, but I DO know of a girl whose leg was broken on a toboggan run. Maybe we need rails on the sides of toboggans. *\:^(
I don’t see how they can unless it is sledding at a public or business facility. They can’t require someone to wear something during an activity on private land. Helmets for bikes and seatbelts for cars are requirements because use of the public road is a privilege and conditions can be imposed on use. Sledding on private land is not a privilege it is a use of private property and can be regulated only if such activity is a public nuisance that substantially endangers the general public health or safety of others.