Seatbelt Laws - Fucking Stupid

[JiveTurkey]

First, let me say that I am 100% in favor of child restraint laws. Kids hardly ever want to wear a seatbelt and/or sit in a car seat and I think it's only responsible to make sure that they do.

However, seat belt laws for adults are complete and total bullshit.

The gubment uses the "it's for your safety" excuse to justify this bullshit law........BUT, what right do they have to decide what is or is not safe for me? Why should the government have a right to decide whether I risk my own life or not in a vehicle?

Of course, if this whole safety excuse WERE true, I might could bend a bit and suffer through a bit of discomfort. However, seeing as it's put in place for money and money ALONE, I will continue to see this law as total bullshit and I will continue to ignore it.

This personal seatbelt usage law is total fucking bullshit at this point.

I can understand other vehicle laws put into place. Speeding and drunk driving can be harmful/fatal to others. The same can be said for not having your headlights on at night or in the rain and driving recklessly. However, the only person you stand to hurt by not wearing your seat belt is YOU. Shouldn't that be a PERSONAL decision??

Well, I suppose I may become a dangerous projectile if not wearing it....but seriously, what are the odds of that? hahaha



Luckily (for me anyway), I still don't have to wear a seat belt in my trucks. Georgia does have it's good points. However, as per usual, there are a great number of fuckwits running around in the pursuit of pushing their will onto others via amending the law here to cover pickups. Not only are these fuckwits trying to get the government to further enslave us to their fucked up laws, they have enlisted the help of the almighty dollar in constantly reminding them of the extra 21 million dollars they will receive (not to mention the extra revenue from the tickets).

Perhaps the uselessness of the dollar these days may actually work out to the favor of us evil bastards who refuse to wear seatbelts.


I suppose only time will tell.

During that time, I will continue to wish horrible death on those who would love to have the government force THEIR will onto the rest of the populace.


MY PERSONAL SAFETY is my business fuckers. Leave it alone.


J

[skunk]

Great rant Jasn. I do wear my seatbelt, but not because its the law. When I'm driving I feel like I have more control over the car when I'm buckled in.

With that being said, I don't think it is anyone's right to tell someone else what they should and should not do as long as they're not infringing on other's rights.

If driving without a seatbelt affected your driving ability I could see where the law comes into play, but in my opinion its all about the tickets.

The revenue gained from the "click it or ticket" nanny police state laws must be astronomical. You know what's fucked up? How the hell can a cop tell if you're wearing your seatbelt or not when he pulls you over? And what is going to stop you from putting it on as soon as you're stopped? How is he/she (ah shemale cops) going to know when you put your seatbelt on?

[Yo Mama]

I wear my belt because of a couple of accidents in my life. It's just safer.

But yeah, I gotta agree with the stupidity of the nanny state making adults buckle up "for their own good." Let the dumbest, worst driving mofos remove themselves from the gene pool. Works for me.

[JiveTurkey]

Personally, I'd like to see some verifiable statistics on those saved by NOT having their safety belt on during the accident.

As just two examples of many that I know of personally:

Had a friend head on an oak tree at about 85mph. He was thrown into the backseat and the 350 in his camaro plowed through the front driver's seat. With seatbelt: Dead. Without, barely even a scratch.

A girl I fucking hated is driving back from the beach after graduation. Truck hits her and knocks her off the road. She is talking and seems to be okay until she moves. Her neck was barely hanging on and when she moved she died almost instantly. Seat belt was officially blamed for the broken neck as it was the strap snapping on here at impact that created the movement required for the break.



While seatbelts DO sometimes save lives, they also take them from time to time.


J

[Foxtrot Oscar]

If you're reckless enough to not wear a seatbelt, which is mostly common sense, you're probably reckless enough to drive like a cawk and kill someone.

We should do away with all fines for law breakers and just shoot people on the spot.

From you're friendly NWO propaganda officer!

Not really related and I'm not so sure a seat belt would have helped, but there was a crazed dog running around in China somewhere biting people. The police were going to beat it to death with sticks but it bit a few officers, so they got back in their cars and chased the bastard down...

Mang: I bet that was fun!

Fox

[DeadSoul]

Man, you've touched on a tough subject. I would have to agree on the fact that it does fall under personal choice. At the same time though, I just can't get into my truck without buckling up. They are enough dumbfucks out there that don't know what they are dong. So I guess i wear it to protect myself from the dumb fucks out there rather than from my own driving.
You see, I do not want to deal with the cops no matter what. So I also wear it just to never give them a reason to pull me over. Plus, driving around with my little guy in the vehicle, I couldn't imagine the, I should have had it on aspect if a bad accident were to happen and I didn't make it.

Plus, I can't afford a fucking ticket. the man already gets enough of my funds.


Failure to wear a seat belt contributes to more fatalities than any other single traffic safety-related behavior. 63% of people killed in accidents are not wearing seat belts. Wearing a seat belt use is still the single most effective thing we can do to save lives and reduce injuries on America's roadways.
Seat belts are the most effective safety devices in vehicles today, estimated to save 9,500 lives each year. Yet only 68 percent of the motor vehicle occupants are buckled. In 1996, more than 60 percent of the occupants killed in fatal crashes were unrestrained.

If 90 percent of Americans buckle up, we will prevent more than 5,500 deaths and 132,000 injuries annually.

http://www.car-accidents.com/pages/seat_belts.html

You can also go to this site which gives some stats from the NHTSA. But these are stats from the government so I don't know how much you will trust them. Stats are stats and we all know what they can mean.
http://www.wtpdmorris.org/Traffic/programs/Click/sbelt.html

[JiveTurkey]

Man, you've touched on a tough subject. I would have to agree on the fact that it does fall under personal choice. At the same time though, I just can't get into my truck without buckling up. They are enough dumbfucks out there that don't know what they are dong. So I guess i wear it to protect myself from the dumb fucks out there rather than from my own driving.
You see, I do not want to deal with the cops no matter what. So I also wear it just to never give them a reason to pull me over. Plus, driving around with my little guy in the vehicle, I couldn't imagine the, I should have had it on aspect if a bad accident were to happen and I didn't make it.

Plus, I can't afford a fucking ticket. the man already gets enough of my funds.


Failure to wear a seat belt contributes to more fatalities than any other single traffic safety-related behavior. 63% of people killed in accidents are not wearing seat belts. Wearing a seat belt use is still the single most effective thing we can do to save lives and reduce injuries on America's roadways.
Seat belts are the most effective safety devices in vehicles today, estimated to save 9,500 lives each year. Yet only 68 percent of the motor vehicle occupants are buckled. In 1996, more than 60 percent of the occupants killed in fatal crashes were unrestrained.

If 90 percent of Americans buckle up, we will prevent more than 5,500 deaths and 132,000 injuries annually.

http://www.car-accidents.com/pages/seat_belts.html

You can also go to this site which gives some stats from the NHTSA. But these are stats from the government so I don't know how much you will trust them. Stats are stats and we all know what they can mean.
http://www.wtpdmorris.org/Traffic/programs/Click/sbelt.html


I don't distrust stats because they are from the gubment haha.

As I said, I agree with the other laws that are there to protect OTHERS. However, my not wearing a seatbelt doesn't make me drive any differently. Well, maybe better since I'm uncomfortable with that strap on my neck.

J

[Foxtrot Oscar]

Nothing to se here...

[Foxtrot Oscar]

Looks like someone needs some one of these!

http://www.oztion.com.au/OA/oa_previewp ... num=3&#pic (http://www.oztion.com.au/OA/oa_previewpic.aspx?itemid=3383333&picnum=3&#pic)

You're such a girl!

Fox

Pic won't link!

[mojo]

I wear a seatbelt so that i dont appear to be a hypocrite when i tell my kids to buckle up.
When im on my own or out bush i'll sometimes not buckle up, however its mostly a reflex now to put it on when i get in a car.

[DeadSoul]

Why don't you try one of those seat belt covers that are somewhat padded, then they don't cut into your neck. Some might call you a fag, but at least you won't feel like you are being choked.

:D :D

[Yo Mama]

Fag.

See? he was right. LOL

[DeadSoul]

I also don't want to end up like this:

[attachment=0:2ifi6z17]skullsplat.jpg[/attachment:2ifi6z17]

[JiveTurkey]

I also don't want to end up like this:

[attachment=0:1y8jrq7l]skullsplat.jpg[/attachment:1y8jrq7l]


You don't want to 'live forever' through people posting your death photo online for the rest of time?

hehe


Just cuz you wanna fuck me don't make me a chick. Fox, you are such a homo.


J

[Bitchkoma]

It's gonna be compulsory for backseat passengers to buckle up by August this year where I'm from. More "coffee cash" for the cops.

[Oblivion]

It's gonna be compulsory for backseat passengers to buckle up by August this year where I'm from. More "coffee cash" for the cops.

do you know what an unbuckled person or pet can do to the people in the front seat during a smash?

even my 2 dogs get put in their doggy seatbelt/harness whenever we go out driving with em.

if its just to the corner shop i dont bother with their harness as its just a couple of back streets away, but anything further and they have em on.

not wearing seatbelts is not just a risk to your life (do what you like) but when you fly through the front window and have to get scraped off the road by some poor bastard and taken to hospital where more poor bastards have to work their arse off to save your life, because you didnt care enough about your own life, yourself.

you guys who refuse to wear em: do you have "do not resuscitate" on your drivers lic. too?
if you dont care about your own life why should the emergency staff?

i can see it now.

the ambulance arrives and they say "naah, let the fucker lie there in pain till he dies. he didnt give a shit about his own life, so why the hell should we..
lets go for coffee and donuts, there on me" :smokin:

[Bitchkoma]

Didn't say I disagree with the law, dude. They've aired some pretty gruesome and convincing PSA ads on TV showing the backseat passengers becoming projectiles.

Just saying a lot of cops here will use this as an opportunity to get bribes. They ought to raise their salaries and have better graft reporting procedures..

[GhostOfCaptSpaulding]

I buckle up every time; the way I drive, I need it to hold me in the seat. http://i233.photobucket.com/albums/ee162/21b45o13x25c54o34d45e/lol-021.gif

And the same goes for my passengers...

I'm thinking about getting five point harnesses for my baja bug when I get it running again...

That being said, anyone who doesn't buckle-up isn't driving with a full tank.

The reason being, besides the obvious revenue enhancing aspect, the PTB want to keep as many stupid people alive as possible to vote for their lame-ass nanny-state laws.

Anyway, if the man intends to pull you over, he doesn't need a seatbelt law to do it; there's not a car on the road, even fresh from the factory, that meets every law on the books.

S'truth!

[Martian Exile]

What bugs me is the Calf law that requires all children under 18 to be strapped into an infant safety seat, capped with a bicycle helmet, and covered with soccer mask. Also, the back doors may not be opened so that the rugrats can experiance the thrill of burning to death while it's rescuers watch in horror.

[GhostOfCaptSpaulding]

Another problem is the fact that as they build vehicles with more and more safety features, people get a false sense of security and drive ever more stupidly.

Witness SoCal in a rain storm; idiots in their SUVs still barreling down the freeways at 80 plus.

I'll bet everyone would drive a lot safer if, by law, the driver was required to be strapped to the front of the vehicle, not unlike driving an old VW bus...

http://i233.photobucket.com/albums/ee162/21b45o13x25c54o34d45e/Disney-Cars-Fillmore.jpg

[Yo Mama]

I used to have a '58 beetle van. Driving that was like driving something made out of aluminum foil -- no safety at all.

Volvo drivers are the worst, that's what hit my motorcycle. And aren't Volvo's supposed to be the safest cars on the road? Goos's theory has some meat to it in that case. :P

[apeci]

I can't imagine they get that much revenue from seatbelt citations. People who aren't wearing them probably just put them on real quick when pulled over. I think it's more of a control issue. A way for the gub'ment to remind you that they own your tied down ass.

My uncle died after he went through his windshield. I worked with another guy who had his face peeled off on his way through the glass. I've been in two wrecks where if I hadn't been wearing my seatbelt I would either be dead or have been in need of plastic surgery. Seatbelts = smart.