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hfojvt

(37,573 posts)
27. how is it hijacked?
Sun Apr 28, 2013, 12:09 AM
Apr 2013

a thread about a bicycle accident is sorta about bicycle helmets too, isn't it? Reply #2, written at about the same time as my reply, also was about bicycle helmets, although his was in favor and mine was against.

As I mentioned somewhere else, I tend to ride my bike to work, and other places, two or three times a day, so when it comes to bicycle helmet gestapo, I have some skin in the game (and from my bicycle accidents, I have some skin on the pavement too).

And I am NOT against bicycle helmets. I am NOT the one trying to pass laws forcing other people to live the way I do. I am NOT proposing laws preventing people from buying bicycle helmets. It is not me, that wants to run their life and make their personal decisions (although when I see people wearing helmets I do tend to roll my eyes and think "what a conformist putz&quot . It is they who want to control my life, because apparently they cannot stand to see somebody who doesn't think the way they do and who makes a decision that they would not make (one that my now almost 80 year old dad made too as he rode his bike to work every day, and one that my now nearly 78 year old mom made as she rode her bike to the store and the library.)

So what the heck, anybody, even Justice Breyer can wear all the helmets they want. Heck, wear two of them just to be doubly safe. I could care less about the helmets. It is the helmet LAWs that I hate.

I hope he wasn't wearing a helmet hfojvt Apr 2013 #1
That's a bit harsh. Buzz Clik Apr 2013 #3
How is it harsh? hfojvt Apr 2013 #7
Ah. I see now. Buzz Clik Apr 2013 #15
Okay, maybe not harsh, but definitely a stupid thing to post. morningfog Apr 2013 #26
how is it hijacked? hfojvt Apr 2013 #27
What an awful thing to say. n/t tammywammy Apr 2013 #4
Hey, he's one of the not-so-bad ones. LuvNewcastle Apr 2013 #5
I happen to not like hfojvt Apr 2013 #10
I see. I think bike helmet laws are silly, too. LuvNewcastle Apr 2013 #12
Seat belts on bikes are a very bad idea. ChairmanAgnostic Apr 2013 #14
Oooooh, that's bad. Glad you're all right. LuvNewcastle Apr 2013 #20
yeah RILib Apr 2013 #23
Because that's just what I said, huh? LuvNewcastle Apr 2013 #24
When did DU get so mean? Glitterati Apr 2013 #11
but is it really nice hfojvt Apr 2013 #16
Yeah, that was my Mom Glitterati Apr 2013 #22
HATEFUL thing to say about someone who is usually on our side. kestrel91316 Apr 2013 #18
I'm testing an hypothesis on this one: Buzz Clik Apr 2013 #2
see, so am I hfojvt Apr 2013 #8
Please stop taking english lessons from Sarah Palin Electric Monk Apr 2013 #17
I know the source hfojvt Apr 2013 #25
Justice Breyer is on the liberal side of the court. Here's to a quick kiranon Apr 2013 #6
He seems like a nice man, to boot. LuvNewcastle Apr 2013 #9
He is DFW Apr 2013 #21
This is his THIRD accident Tx4obama Apr 2013 #13
I bet it is more than that hfojvt Apr 2013 #19
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