Posted on 01/26/2008 7:36:44 AM PST by Mr. Brightside
Michigan lawmakers push helmet requirement for skiers, snowboarders....
the Michigan lawmakers also push for taxes on helmet for skiers, snowboarders....
“First, they came for the motorcyclists...but I wasn’t a motorcyclist....”
LOL at the idea that Michigan has big enough ski hills that anyone needs a helmet there.
I would guess that about 70% of skiers in the US already wear helmets. In europe the number is much smaller. Maybe 10%. I never wore one until I saw a skier get killed by a snowboarder near Cordoba a few years ago. The snowboarder came over a rise and hit the skier directly in the head with the board. The first year I wore it, it saved me from getting my head sliced open after a collision with another skier. One of our edges from a lose ski cut a big slice into the front of my helmet. They are also great for keeping your head much warmer and being able to stay out for a couple more runs.
Helmets are mandatory with our family, whether we are snowboarding, biking or riding dirt bikes (a helmet is just one of the many pieces of gear we wear while riding dirt bikes).
I have seen too many out of control people on the slopes to not strap on a helmet. It is better than nothing.
Nanny State Ping!!!!!!!!
That and too many people who have decided they get to decide what is and what is ot acceptable risk.
These Legislators will need a helmet after we here in Michigan get a big piss elm club and start putting knots on their heads faster than they can rub them! The State is broke and I guess this is just another revenue gathering move, using the “nanny state” to promote it! Can’t wait until they pass a law requiring bulletproof vests for hunting!
In WV they passed a helmet law for ATV riding. Surprise, the number of deaths went up this year.
This stuff is getting scary.
And of course the PTB will make up some lame excuse.
I don’t disagree with the wearing of helmets or seatbelts, I disagree with such wear being mandatory.
How about a mandatory drug test.
Getting scary???????
We ride, we decide.
all private automobile occupans must be required to wear helmets.
ALL of them.
IF you don’t want to wear a helmet, take the bus.
(nanny state sarcasm off)
I'd bet the police lobby will put a stop to that idea.
Atlanta has the largest ski club in the country that isn't in a ski area so naturally you have to fly to any ski holiday you go on. In all the years I've been skiing I've never heard Michigan mentioned one time as a place to go. I guess it's so good that the natives keep the secret to themselves, hehe.
I went to college in Grand Rapids, and the local ski “hill” is in fact artificial—built on an old garbage dump.
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