Mandatory Bicycle Helmet Laws

[blue neen]

68. Most powerball players don't die or end up in the hospital on life support if they don't win.

Nice try at the false dichotomy, though.

The rest of the public also will not have to pay for the lottery players' tickets and lifetime healthcare if he/she chooses to play, win or lose.

Riding a bike without a helmet? Russian roulette. Playing the lottery? It's not even in the same hemisphere.


"Every year the estimated number of bicycling head injuries requiring hospitalization exceeds the total of all the head injury cases related to baseball, football, skateboards, kick scooters, horseback riding, snowboarding, ice hockey, in-line skating and lacrosse."

"Estimated indirect costs for injuries to unhelmeted cyclists are $2.3 billion yearly."

"In bicycle crashes, 2/3 of the dead and 1/8 of the injured suffered brain injuries."

"95% of bicyclists killed in 2006 reportedly were not wearing helmets."

http://www.helmets.org/stats.htm