Yet you post on Usenet using HTML. Clbutt.
by being forced
Well maybe YOU do, but I'm f***ed if I'm handing over responsibility for my safety to anyone else.
We need this equipment
And? We don't know what tomorrow will bring either, so maybe we should be issued with (and enforced to take) a pill that ensures we don't see tomorrow?
Helmets are usually worn on the head, not on arms or legs. If you DO wear them there, then you must expect those sorts of injuries.
So you blame who?
Now, eleven days later, she is
I'm beginning to get the feeling that this is the time to haul out the violin.
Was it HER choice to not wear a helmet, and even if she had, would it've stopped her NECK from breaking? If so, please explain the mechanics of that thinking.
Now THAT makes perfect sense. ASKING someone to wear a lid is good. Demonstrating a good reason is also good, but simply MAKING someone wear one is BAD.
I know they
Sad as this story is, it doesn't make the point. You niece (or whoever's niece) broke her NECK and even if the lid could've saved her, she STILL shouldn' be MADE to wear one of she doesn't want to. It's all about choices and I don't need a bunch on lard arsed politicians making judgement calls on my behalf. As it happens, they did over here in the UK so EVERY rider has to wear a helmet, but that doesn't make it right.
-- Beav
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