NY motorcyclist in helmet protest hits head, dies - Yahoo! News (http://news.yahoo.com/ny-motorcyclist-helmet-protest-hits-head-dies-225710487.html)

ONONDAGA, N.Y. (AP) — A man riding bareheaded on one of about 550 motorcycles in an anti-helmet law rally lost control of his cycle, went over his handlebars, hit his head on the pavement and died, police said Sunday.

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I am, for the record, against mandatory laws too. This demonstrates that hemets are still a good idea, though.

NY motorcyclist in helmet protest hits head, dies - Yahoo! News (http://news.yahoo.com/ny-motorcyclist-helmet-protest-hits-head-dies-225710487.html)



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I am, for the record, against mandatory laws too. This demonstrates that hemets are still a good idea, though.

blackman beat you to it.
http://forums.somd.com/motorcycles-4-wheelin/229603-how-ironic.html

NY motorcyclist in helmet protest hits head, dies - Yahoo! News (http://news.yahoo.com/ny-motorcyclist-helmet-protest-hits-head-dies-225710487.html)



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I am, for the record, against mandatory laws too. This demonstrates that hemets are still a good idea, though.

I guess the only thing is though, is someone that ends up in a vegetable state and we (everyone else) ends up paying the medical bills. Although people have a right to be stupid, we shouldn't have to pay for other peoples' stupidity.

I guess the only thing is though, is someone that ends up in a vegetable state and we (everyone else) ends up paying the medical bills. Although people have a right to be stupid, we shouldn't have to pay for other peoples' stupidity.

Maybe everyone who doesn"t what to wear a helmet should sign a waiver stating that they will not be elegible for medical care once their own reaches the maximum. Maybe if it is presented to them in that fashion,they will think about the implications and use some common sense. After all kids die every day from a fall from a bicycle,which doesn"t have the speed of a motorcycle.

After all kids die every day from a fall from a bicycle,which doesn"t have the speed of a motorcycle.

No they don't.

Falling is falling and you will accelerate at a rate of 32 ft per sec per sec. Doesn't matter if you're falling from a bike, motorcycle, horse or a building.

Forward velocity isn't a factor untill something stops your forward movement