While I would not do it and certainly would not condone it,
is there people who are against helmets ? what is there to hear ?
ABATE is a motorcycle organization opposing mandatory helmet laws.
Yes. This was a huge issue in Pennsylvania, maybe 15 or 20 years ago, when the helmet law was voted down.
Meh. The medical expenses of a few stupid individuals may look like a lot of money to an individual, but in the grand scheme of the state budget, they’re but a drop of water in the ocean. If you really want to split hairs so fine, there are also costs associated with enforcing helmet laws, but I think we probably all have bigger things to worry about.
I don't disagree. But in this case, the cost of enforcing useless laws may be several more drops in that bucket, than the occasional (6.8% in my state) uninsured accident victim.
In a previous lifetime I did in-depth studies of costs in various State departments. I discovered CalTrans legal division pays for lifetime care of several totally disabled people who had successfully sued the state for putting a guardrail or lamppost etc right where they ran into it.
If THAT'S where you're looking for government/taxpayer/health insurance waste you're focused on a single grain of sand on a Florida beach. There are 10,000 other types of things where we waste orders of magnitude more money. Often for things that are far dumber than driving a cycle without a helmet.
That's what windshields are for. I suppose if your bike style doesn't have a good windshield then a helmet becomes more useful.
Count the bugs in their teeth!
Congratulations, YOU beat the odds. By your reasoning, there should be no seat belts, no airbags, meat with green slime on it should be for sale, sewage should go straight into the water system, every room should be full of cigarette smoke, etc., because the millions of people who think like you, died, but you didn't, so it's all ok.
It's always entertaining to watch drunk boaters at the boat ramp, late Sunday afternoon.
