You know, all of my life I’ve ridden motorcycles / ATVs. For the most part, I wear a helmet. I don’t like the thought of having my brains ooze out after an accident, and if there is a chance that a helmet may prevent that should a situation arise, you can bet I hope I’m wearing a helmet.
I just saw on the local news where [I think] the mayor of Martins Ferry OH is lobbying for an Ohio helmet law. As you know, in Ohio if you are an adult you aren’t required to wear a helmet. I’m all for a helmet law.
Tell me – Does it make sense that we all must wear seatbelts (as a matter of law) but there is no requirement in Ohio for motorcyclists to wear helmets? That’s BS.
I don’t look at the statistics, and I don’t give a damn what the statistics are – logic tells me that if I’m in an auto accident I have a better chance of surviving and even possibly coming out unscathed than motorcyle riders… yet the law wishes to force me to wear a seat belt while the boozed up numnut with a doo-rag for a helmet goes cruising by me on the interstate. Sorry, but I can’t process this.
Let’s add insult to injury – Let’s imagine if that numnut also has a wife and a few kids and/or other dependents and loved ones. Why in the hell would they want the increased risk of riding without a helmet? You can’t be a husband, father, brother, son, etc. if you’re a vegetable hooked up on life support for the next umpteen years.
Hey, my gripe really isn’t with the A.B.A.T.E. noodleheads – so don’t go soiling yourselves en masse. I’ve got a few good friends who ride motorcycles but refuse to wear helmets… they’re pretty bright guys. They didn’t just fall off the turnip truck. They aren’t dumbasses. I’ve got a family member (technically an ex family member) who rides without a helmet. He’s got three kids. Imagine if those kids had to hear the news that he died in an accident (or was in the hospital in a vegetative state) due to not wearing a helmet and that investigators deemed it could have been prevented merely by wearing a helmet?
This is just a little rant… I don’t give a damn what my friends do as much, but I do give a damn about family.
There should be a national helmet law….. would save a few lives [quite possibly including some friends and family members], and wouldn’t make me feel so much like i’m being jipped out of what I think should be a personal choice, wearing [or not wearing] a seat belt.