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nichomachus

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24. Apparently, you've never seen someone ejected from a car accident

Reply to coldbeer (Reply #21)

Mon Sep 3, 2012, 12:43 PM

Sep 2012

I can tell you from personal experience that it isn't pretty.

I've seen lots of car accidents and I've never seen one where a person lived because they weren't wearing a seatbelt.

If you are in a car traveling 60 mph, you are traveling 60 mph also. If the car stops suddenly, you are still traveling 60 mph. Unrestrained you become a flying object going one mile per minute. Inside or outside a vehicle, the results of that aren't very pretty.

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The Case for Banning Life Jackets - a graphic [View all] ehrnst Sep 2012 OP

I've heard this argument used about first aid kits and seat belts ehrnst Sep 2012 #1

This really isn't talking about flotation devices. (nt) Posteritatis Sep 2012 #10

This isn't about life jackets. The Velveteen Ocelot Sep 2012 #11

Can also be applied to the whole idea of a social safety net. randome Sep 2012 #30

seat belts? coldbeer Sep 2012 #21

Apparently, you've never seen someone ejected from a car accident nichomachus Sep 2012 #24

I was and damned near died coldbeer Sep 2012 #39

I say BS- digonswine Sep 2012 #25

coldbeer Diclotican Sep 2012 #31

i've never known of any accident barbtries Sep 2012 #32

good lord what hole did you crawl out of? i haven't heard this argument in decades! unblock Sep 2012 #35

Also fire extinguishers slackmaster Sep 2012 #27

I'd use one in an emergency because I can't swim Skidmore Sep 2012 #2

The logic used by the antis would claim that the existence of life jackets ehrnst Sep 2012 #3

Good point and love your signature line. freshwest Sep 2012 #7

Or just get rid of all the water. Easy peasy. tridim Sep 2012 #4

Luckily, the water is rising. Soon we can swim in the NY subways. ChairmanAgnostic Sep 2012 #15

I just read Sekhmets Daughter Sep 2012 #23

sadly here in NC barbtries Sep 2012 #33

If you use a life jacket, you're going against God's will mindwalker_i Sep 2012 #5

reminds me of an old joke justabob Sep 2012 #18

Add a few nasty names to call people who like swimming and boating gollygee Sep 2012 #6

Great, but too subtle for the gullibles. nm rhett o rick Sep 2012 #8

Yup, even here. It's *not* about flotation devices, folks... The Velveteen Ocelot Sep 2012 #12

Amazing, isn't it? N/T Ineeda Sep 2012 #22

BRAVO!!! Applause Applause KauaiK Sep 2012 #9

Yup. Makes just as much sense as banning birth control lunatica Sep 2012 #13

Bravo! EvolveOrConvolve Sep 2012 #14

this heaven05 Sep 2012 #16

lol defacto7 Sep 2012 #17

The only thing is.... AlbertCat Sep 2012 #19

well, i know more than a few boaters who really do seem to have some primal urge to sail.... unblock Sep 2012 #36

Yes, however, in evolutionary terms ehrnst Sep 2012 #38

Rec 100 obxhead Sep 2012 #20

K&R = Girl howdy! isn't THAT the truth in so many many more ways than just one!!! patrice Sep 2012 #26

Yup. "Moral Hazard" and all that. n/t markpkessinger Sep 2012 #28

I'm teaching Health this year. WinstonSmith4740 Sep 2012 #29

As Surgeon General Satcher said about sex ed: ehrnst Sep 2012 #37

k+r! TeamPooka Sep 2012 #34

wow. that's powerful. Liberal_in_LA Sep 2012 #40