If you choose not to wear a seatbelt, it should be a ticket or at least higher insurance wise. It is a proven saftey device that save lifes!
"Click it, or Ticket"
- Thread starter Legzman
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Well Airbags are a lot more dangerous and cause a hell of a lot more problems than they are worth, I actually have the airbags in my Jeep disabled.
The last Jeep I had got messed up when a idiot talking on his cell phone in a dully ran me off the road, my FUCKING airbag deployed blinding me and I ended up runing into a fucking tree. If the god damn, piece of shit, fucking stupid, air bag had not deployed when I left the road I would have been able to see and would not have hit anything! On top of that my nose was broken (by the damn airbag) and I could not smell anything but the cordite from the blasting cap used to deploy it for a week. NO I was not sitting too close to the steering wheel as I am over 6' tall.
My seatbelt which I have always buckled even before starting a vehicle is what saved my ass from flying out the windshield, the stupid airbag (and the idiot on his cell phone) is what created the need for having the seatbelt on.
So yea I say ticket the assholes who don't buckle up, cause if your in a state that has dwc laws the officers might be able to write em a ticket for talking on the damn phone too!
An interesting point though they had to stop the campaign years ago that had someone dressed as a peace officer saying he had never unbucked a dead person from a seatbelt because some organization pointed out that in some very rare accidents (like rollovers, ones involving a fire and others that fit in with these which make up about 1%) people have died with thier seatbelts on.
The last Jeep I had got messed up when a idiot talking on his cell phone in a dully ran me off the road, my FUCKING airbag deployed blinding me and I ended up runing into a fucking tree. If the god damn, piece of shit, fucking stupid, air bag had not deployed when I left the road I would have been able to see and would not have hit anything! On top of that my nose was broken (by the damn airbag) and I could not smell anything but the cordite from the blasting cap used to deploy it for a week. NO I was not sitting too close to the steering wheel as I am over 6' tall.
My seatbelt which I have always buckled even before starting a vehicle is what saved my ass from flying out the windshield, the stupid airbag (and the idiot on his cell phone) is what created the need for having the seatbelt on.
So yea I say ticket the assholes who don't buckle up, cause if your in a state that has dwc laws the officers might be able to write em a ticket for talking on the damn phone too!
An interesting point though they had to stop the campaign years ago that had someone dressed as a peace officer saying he had never unbucked a dead person from a seatbelt because some organization pointed out that in some very rare accidents (like rollovers, ones involving a fire and others that fit in with these which make up about 1%) people have died with thier seatbelts on.
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I agree Legz, but what's of greatest importance is that government
focus groups / think tanks have decided that their campaign slogan has to rhyme and isn't that cute !!
:crash:I bet that the taxpayers paid millions of additional dollars (that we don't have) in order to pay for this bogus seatbelt campaign.
Dicks, Huh ? P:
I am very sorry to hear of you misfortue, very seriously. In most cases airbags do save you from harm. Airbags helped me allot in a crash a few years ago. With a seatbelt on and them, I walked away with no injury. I was driving a 1998 Ford which had a the older high pressure type (?) and the newer airbags are far better now.
hold on for a second, not wearing a seat belt doesn't endanger anyone but the person that is not wearing it.
But, yapping on the phone and typing on their smartphone's while driving has been proven to be a distraction to the driver. This on the other hand is endangering others because of distracted-selfish behavior that does not give the driver full focus on driving.
Will E Worm
Conspiracy...
Drinking alcohol should be on your list of no noes.
Alcohol is the number one drug of choice.
One in four deaths of European men in the group aged 15-29 years is related to alcohol.
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Except for my insurance rates... I am in the same pool.... Injuries that could have avoided due to wearing a seatbelt affect us all... Car and medical insurance wise...
it's about tickets first, lives second. the saving lives aspect is to make the ticket writing aspects more acceptable. however, even the life saving is about money as ^e-ann-hilden^ points out.
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Air bag deployment in an otherwise minor accident could render a slightly damaged vehicle as a useless TOTALED vehicle. I'm sure it happens hundreds maybe thousands of time a day.
Example
Insurance Service writer: "Sir, it's going to cost we the insurer $12,000 + your deductable to restore your airbag system. It might not be cost effective here, we should prolly total the vehicle"
Me : "Fuck that ! It only has about $5 - 600 bucks worth of body damage to the front quarter panel ! What are you talking about ? I like this vehicle ! I'd like this vehicle even better, less the g'damn air bags ! just slap the cover panels back where they belong, I didn't want to have air bags in the first place !"
Service writer: "The vehicle will go no where unless airbag system is restored." (disabled ignition because of airbag deployment that costs money to restore too)
Me: "!@@W#E$R%T^Y&U* f'en fraud bastid mofos √∫√∫˜µ≤√ç"
Legzman
what the fuck you lookin at?
see, another good example of my Click it, or Die theory. Or in that case, Click it, or Kill :1orglaugh
As someone old enough to remember when cars were sold that had safety as a very low priority it makes me shudder and glad things have changed.
I can remember as a kid my parents owning cars that had no seatbelts( it was an option) and they bought the stripped cheapest cars you find on the lot.
My mom had a 1961 VW with no belts which we almost got killed in when hit by Edsel.:eek:
The car that replaced it was a 1964 corvair which while it did come with belts it had no back up lights(another option lol) and like the VW an all metal dashboard(zero padding), but the corvairs was much more imposing (scary) looking.I remember thinking "damn I slam my face into that thing its gonna hurt".
Cars and safety have come long long way so Buckle up!!!:thumbsup:
I can remember as a kid my parents owning cars that had no seatbelts( it was an option) and they bought the stripped cheapest cars you find on the lot.
My mom had a 1961 VW with no belts which we almost got killed in when hit by Edsel.:eek:
The car that replaced it was a 1964 corvair which while it did come with belts it had no back up lights(another option lol) and like the VW an all metal dashboard(zero padding), but the corvairs was much more imposing (scary) looking.I remember thinking "damn I slam my face into that thing its gonna hurt".
Cars and safety have come long long way so Buckle up!!!:thumbsup:
I see a lot of idiots texting while driving. FYI, you can't talk on cell phones and drive at the same in Chicago, unless you want to donate 100 bucks to Daley and Co. The funny thing is that I see a lot of Chicago cops talking on their cell phones while driving. :thefinger
