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ORIGINAL: probe1957


I lived in Mannassas as a kid.  Had a job offer there a few years ago.  Money was good but not really an area I want to live in.

DH is from Manassas and in-laws still live there. You wouldn't believe how much it's grown. It's one giant traffic mess waiting to get into one giant strip mall.

Cars and motorcycles is apples and oranges.

 
Ok..got it now ... Yes, they are apples and oranges
 
BUT one you should use a helmet when driving and the other a seatbelt! [8D]  and don't worry..NO charge for the "safety tip"![]  Free to you my friend!  

I think I would rather not wear a helmet and be dead than wear a helmet and be just injured enough that I spend the rest of my life as a drooling, pooping tard.
 
Yours in political correctness,

I think I would rather not wear a helmet and be dead than wear a helmet and be just injured enough that I spend the rest of my life as a drooling, pooping tard.

 
Your personal choice my friend and one that MANY people feel the same way about []      (you should see the film "The Sea Inside"... true story about a man with a spinal cord injury who fought the law for over 30 years to have someone be able to assist him with suicide, interesting story and one I would be interested in discussing with you AFTER you saw it). For many they would RATHER die.. but erhaps because I have so many incredible people with disabilities as friends AND have had to work with families trying to cope with such tragedy I see another side of it.
 
    
My only point is that people should consider how their choices affect their loved ones... but that said ...what was it I was saying about stupidity helping the "natural selection" process along??? []  

In the past 20 years, the main number of motorcycle accidents involved people who had been riding less than 6 months and who did not take a motorcycle safety course. Translation, yuppies who couldn't wait to show that they would spend $40k on a Harley would buy own and ride to Daytona or Sturgis (The Black Hill Run, back in the day) so that they could feel like "bikers" and wipe out.
 
Generally speaking, helmets reduce visibility and hearing quite drastically. Most non-fatal head injuries involved lacerations, which can still happen if wearing a peanut shell, as opposed to a full faced Bell. I've read of accidents where a rider was killed while wearing a helmet. Over 90 % of motorcycle accidents involving a car and a motorcycle are the fault of the car driver.
 
On a motorcycle, you functionally take up the space of a car but you are invisible. People behind you cannot stop as fast as you can.
 
OTOH, I've watched superbike racing. More than once, I have seen a guy lay the bike down in a turn at literally 120 mph, skid across the tarmac onto the grass, get up and walk away. Usually wearing a helmet but more importantly, he has learned how to get away from a motorcycle going down. There is a specific way.
 
There are 3 accidents involved in a motorcycle accident. The intitial accident that causes you to lose control. That rarely results in injury. The second accident is where you fall off or are thrown from the motorcycle. Sometimes injury sometimes not. The third accident is when you are hit by someone in traffic after you have been thrown off the motorcycle. That results in great injury and death.
 
What's more important than the helmet is proper handling of the motorcycle and reading traffic. There are old bikers, there are fast bikers, there are no old, fast bikers.
 

In the past 20 years, the main number of motorcycle accidents involved people who had been riding less than 6 months and who did not take a motorcycle safety course. Translation, yuppies who couldn't wait to show that they would spend $40k on a Harley would buy own and ride to Daytona or Sturgis (The Black Hill Run, back in the day) so that they could feel like "bikers" and wipe out.

[sm=clapping%20hands%20smiley.gif][sm=clapping%20hands%20smiley.gif] (and I'd add Laconia...being from NH and all)
But a helmet will save your skull, and said motorcycle safety courses will remind you of that. 

ORIGINAL: probe1957
So, they are unethical hunters, they break the law, then they go up to a complete stranger and brag about their antics?  Forgive me for being a little skeptical.

Its amazing what shoots out of your mouth after 6 or 12 Canadian beer.  []And yes when we are camping while hunting, it is not rare for us to invite other parties to share our campsites if there is room.

4 years ago, my youngest brother was killed in a motorcycle accident, he lived in Mass. so he was wearing a helmet.  He was brain dead. 
Mass also has a seatbelt law. I don't like the government telling me what I have to do to make MY life safer. If they cared all that much, why don't they make cigarettes illegal.
Just where I want to go hunting, a camp site with drunks with guns[]

ORIGINAL: huskymom
Its amazing what shoots out of your mouth after 6 or 12 Canadian beer.  []

 
How very, very well I know that.  []

and I'd add Laconia

 
You busted me. Laconia is the oldest biker rally, usually in August, which is also the duration of summer in NH. My brother used to live in Seabrook and then Exeter. Then he moved to Maine.

The bike fest in Laconia is in June. I had gone a couple of times in my younger years. We stayed at Weirs beach and it is wild.

and since this is all off topic, nobody can bust me for sharing the Laconia bike week website.. [linkhttp://www.laconiamcweek.com/]http://www.laconiamcweek.com/[/link]
and Linda is right - it's in June and it is wild. (and I'm sorry for the loss of your brother.)

Ron - Seabrook and Exeter are my neighboring towns... also, summer oddly enough does last June thru August... and if this past year was any indication, one might even think it lasts until December with 70 degree weather... weird. 

More OT - all this religion talk lately has me watching Dogma again, just for the laughs...