Well, thats one point of view. Fair 'nuff.Kimmo wrote:
I'll tell you what's fucking ghey; being told I must wear a helmet.
They're for pussies who are scared of traffic. Pissant pollies act like cycling isn't seven times safer than travelling in a car (in terms of deaths per million hours). Go fuck yourselves with your on-the-spotters, you stinking fucks.
The hide, to interfere with such pure freedom...
Heres one from a long time motorcyclist and racer.
As a matter of interest, my father is an orthapaedic surgeon.
Many of his weekends when i was a lot younger were taken up with being endlessly on-call for the ED up that Sutherland Hospital. Indeed back then I really detested that fucking hospital and the time it took from my father..... neway, I digress!
I cannot even hazard a guess at how many times he came home bent out of shape over having to piece together some poor kid or other biker dude who faceplanted himself into a gutter or the side of a car and ended up as a veggie due to brain damage from a fall and clouting his scone!
despite being an eminent physician, he still suffered over his patients when a fair whack of them would have not been brain injured at all if they had been wearing a bash-hat.
The cavalier stance on the (not) wearing of helmets by both the push and motorcycle brigade bleating personal freedom and so-on, altho laudable and understandable, palls considerably against the ongoing cost to society, in labour, resources and increasingly moreso, monetary terms to keep the helmetless dudes alive with acute and irreversible brain damage from a seemingly insignificant fall....
Of course, those brain dead dudes dont give a shit anymore as they dont think about anything more complex than adding 1 and 2 together or remembering to take the next breath, but what about everybody else starting with their families, carerers, medics and so-on charged with looking after them.
The collateral damage after the event in close to incalculable on every level.
A fair percentage of there victims could still be contributing to society instead of languishing in close to a vegetative state in some public home or at best, capable of only a menial task such as sorting out rags into various types at a sheltered workshop.
Indeed a close m8 of mine from primary school became a violent cunt of a thing, medicated for life due to significant brain damage after a seemingly light thump into the side of a car reversing out a driveway while he was tooling down the footpath on his trusty treadly.
No blood. No broken bones, hardly even a bruise but irreversibly scarred for life.
Given the above, the loss of personal freedom and liberty to the bikers of both powered and pushed variety is a small price to pay for "pissant pollies" insisting that all of use wear a helmet and loose some of our cherished personal freedom if it saves even just a couple of dudes from irreversible brain damage and useful function each year.
Another point of view.
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