Posted on 07/08/2011 10:16:52 PM PDT by Paleo Conservative
ONONDAGA, N.Y. (AP) — Police say a motorcyclist participating in a protest ride against helmet laws in upstate New York died after he flipped over the bike's handlebars and hit his head on the pavement.
The accident happened Saturday afternoon in the town of Onondaga, in central New York near Syracuse.
State troopers tell The Post-Standard of Syracuse that 55-year-old Philip A. Contos of Parish, N.Y., was driving a 1983 Harley Davidson with a group of bikers who were protesting helmet laws by not wearing helmets.
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Oy!
/johnny
Just damn....
Hope he gets to ride a motorcycle in Heaven.
I agree.
I quit riding when my passenger got badly hurt. Minor, Sunday morning, pillar of the community hit us. Couldn't read the ticket he got because his eyes were bad.
You deal with your wife, your insurance agent, and your NCOIC on what safety gear you wear. Everyone else can pound sand.
But I'm not know for slavishly following laws.
/johnny
Me either. I am waiting for a cop to pull into my farm & say you need a helmet when riding that horse. I need a permit to cross the road to get on the trails. I am tired of permits for everything too.
These laws have nothing to do with safety as they are advertised, but are just another of the many ways politicians bring in revenue by issuing frivolous tickets while pretending to be doing it because they care and want to save lives. It usually works because most people like me who don't ride motorcycles and always wear seat belts either support or ignore the issue. It's the same thing they do with cigarettes. A lot of people who don't smoke don't care about the laws because it's something that doesn't affect them, and while I don't smoke I think a person has the right to do so and I'm not afraid of the exaggerated second hand smoking crap they always report.
The only problem with things like smoking is many smokers are going to be using taxpayer money to get treatment for any illness that it causes. That doesn't change my opposition to the anti-smoking laws it just makes me think we need to make some big changes in taxpayer health care programs, and I have absolutely no confidence that any of that will ever be changed significantly for the better. There will never be a significant and permanent cutback to any of those things. There are just too many ignorant people who don't understand how things work and those who just don't care.
These laws have nothing to do with safety as they are advertised, but are just another of the many ways politicians bring in revenue by issuing frivolous tickets while pretending to be doing it because they care and want to save lives. It usually works because most people like me who don't ride motorcycles and always wear seat belts either support or ignore the issue. It's the same thing they do with cigarettes. A lot of people who don't smoke don't care about the laws because it's something that doesn't affect them, and while I don't smoke I think a person has the right to do so and I'm not afraid of the exaggerated second hand smoking crap they always report.
The only problem with things like smoking is many smokers are going to be using taxpayer money to get treatment for any illness that it causes. That doesn't change my opposition to the anti-smoking laws it just makes me think we need to make some big changes in taxpayer health care programs, and I have absolutely no confidence that any of that will ever be changed significantly for the better. There will never be a significant and permanent cutback to any of those things. There are just too many ignorant people who don't understand how things work and those who just don't care.
You two are goiung to have to learn to walk on your knees like everyone else! Now bow down and get on your knees. Right this moment, do it!
I liken this to seat belts. I was so opposed to seat belts that I actually removed them from cars until they were required to be worn.
I didn’t wear them until I was nearly rolled over by a semi on an Interstate. The older state trooper asked me if I was wearing a belt (again, not required at the time). He told me that most of the time vehicles rolled over in that type of an accident, and that he had never pulled a living person from one.
So, then I started wearing them.
There is a personal freedom issue here, but there is also a societal cost issue. I don’t want to pay for anyone’s “freedom” to get a quarter of a million dollars of reconstructive surgery, or lifetime disability care. You may say “my insurance pays for that”, but it really doesn’t.
I’m just waiting for the day when our Western cattle men are forced by law to turn in their ten gallon hats for helmets ... not any time soon.
lmao! Can’t. My knee is in a brace & the buckskin Sassy & I saved stepped on my foot & prolly broke it. You will have to wait until the xrays come back & they tell me what is wrong. Funny how I have to wait a week to find out if my foot is broken. After I get all those issues fixed I will let you know when I can do it. Good to see you.
Why are you posting 5-day-old news that has already been posted at least a half dozen times since?
Search is your friend...
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First time I saw it. That’s all that counts.
I’ll agree to allow you to protect me from the danger of not wearing a helmet when you agree to protect yourself from the harm caused by cigarettes, alcohol, obesity, drugs etc.
1st time I saw it too
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