Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire Sir, you're not gonna give me a seatbelt ticket today are you, I just got one yesterday

I wont wear a seatbelt. Write me all the tickets you want.

I tied a girl up once.....
She didn't like mandatory seat belt laws either.
We split up.




I untied her, first.

Hey 7mmMato,

Sell me your rifle. That was one well made rifle.

OK, back on track...

wageslave,

I should have thought of that. Instead, she tied me up and after we split up she kept me tied up.

If most of America took responsibility for themselves we wouldn't have half these nanny laws.

Most people, whether you want to believe it or not, will cry about being forced to wear a seat belt, then cry about being asked to pay even a small percentage of the medical bills when they get injured.

Of course, different government agencies pick up the rest. Paid for by taxes. Not just taxes from individuals, but also taxes and regulations to insurance companies. Who start being forced to offer a minimum coverage that costs you more. Both car and medical insurance.

The result is that you pay several times for those who won't pay for themselves or demand that underinsured folks go without care.

There's lots of other factors like the way too high cost of the medical care and lawsuits that claim cops/cities "should have protected me from myself." But the point is that there are reasons for these laws that most of you don't think about. These tickets do not generate the revenue you think. The average cop won't write enough tickets in his career to pay for even two entire years of his employment.

did you ever think about the little girl that didn't get medical attention because gov. spent the money on foolish programs so people could sit around with a doughnut watching for strapped in folks on their way to producing income and value?

Any cop using the tax payer pays for medical issues excuse for writing seat belt ticket better do nothing that increase their risks for health issues.

No smoking, drinking, or being a lard ass.

Why don't school buses have seat belts...?

About twenty five million kids ride the school bus every day in our country, and nearly all of them are making the trip without a seat belt.

We�re required to wear seat belts in our cars, but why aren�t there seat belts in school buses...to protect the children...?

Bro,
I got Uncle Henry today.
He arrived with a chest belt and seat belt.
He was safe.
And glorious.
Thanks.

The heck with a seatbelt; I want to be thrown clear if an accident happens

Have no idea - interesting that your basic rationale for your nagging constraining police work here is that you are controlling costs for taxpayers and premiums for the insured. How much of the remainder of your "protect and serve" role is driven by such lofty and serious purposes?

Cost to much... Ironic...

This is what happens when govt and insurance cartels conspire to dig into your pockets.

I have yet to see my "seatbelt dividends" in the form of lower insurance premiums since this BS started.

G-12, with all due respect (and I mean it) wearing/not wearing a seat belt isn't going to change much. In fact, there was a truck driver around these parts who died BECAUSE he had his seatbelt on.

I would respond to any officer who's yowling at me for not wearing a seatbelt and who asks that same question thusly:

"Officer, do you not think that it's much more prudent and safe to drive in such a manner that one does not NEED a seatbelt?" Let him answer THAT.

I refuse to wear a seat belt unless and until I'm hauling one of my trailers; especially the camper due to it's size and weight. If I'm running truck only I will not wear a seat belt.

It's called FREEDOM...

In any case - ALL of us should drive safely, carefully and PAY ATTENTION to the road and traffic.

FWIW.

My observation has been that at city speed (30-40mph) seatbelts don't do dick. Highway accidents however, they save lives. The people were more often than not D.O.A. from horrid injury after being ejected.

click it or ticket campaigns are nothing more than a method for raising money.
Heck, that describes most traffic laws.

I'm hoping the conservatives wear seat belts.

Nah, the seatbelt laws came into being because the Federalis threatened to stop federal dollars that they normally dole out to the states unless the laws were passed. Kentucky started out as a secondary state too, and after a few years it was switched to a primary offense.

I have yet to understand that why it is too unsafe to get on the road behind the wheel of a car without a seatbelt, yet one can get on a motorcycle without one.
Now, I know that a seatbelt on a motorcycle is riciculous and would make it more dangerous, BUT if a car without a seatbelt is too dangerous to drive, then a motorcycle is too dangerous with or without a seatbelt.

still, I always wear my seatbelt. I only have one of me and I cannot go hunting all over the world if I'm dead or a paraplegic.

Lost a good friend who was 19 years old who was driving back from elk camp last year by himself. He had a 5x5 he just shot in the back of the pick up.

It was around 8am when he was driving back the police figured he fell asleep at the wheel, went off the road, and rolled the truck. The truck rolled multiple times and he was ejected out of it, and was killed.

I was a FF on the local dept and it was our ambulance that was there first. It was our EMT's that loaded Matt up. The boy they picked up that day was the previous Captains son. A kid who was cadet in the dept, who was on calls with us in the past, who grew up with many of us, and who knew better.

So don't tell me a seatbelt is bullshit, its a first amendment right or any other crap. Its a law. Don't think about yourself. Think of the paramedics that have to put you in the back of an ambulance, and the memories that are burned in their memory for the rest of their life. And think about your mother, father, brothers and sisters who have to get a phone call to tell them there son/daughter is dead.

Basically not wearing a seat belt is being selfish. I have been on enough calls that a simple seat belt would have saved their life. I have watched a person roll a Chevy Blazer 5 times in front of me, and walk away from it because of a seat belt. I have had extricate a person for over 4 hours because they decided to drive drunk and drive off the side of a hill wedging themselves 6 feet up in a tree. They would have walked away with a seat belt on, but since they chose not to, they wedged them self under the steering column and broke their back and were paralyzed from the waist down.

So do what you want. But don't be surprised to get a ticket, don't give cops crap for trying to make it a little safer for you.

And if/when you don't wear a seat belt and get in a major accident, don't be surprised when you never see your family again.