Lets ban cars for the sake of homeland security!

auto accidents kill more than 40,000 people a year in the US. cigarettes kill nearly 10 times that amount. heart problems kill nearly 25 times more people.

so let's ban all tobacco and meat products, and put a big tax on saturated fat. and force everyone to exercise.

tai fu wrote:

Shouldn't you be concerned about "lickshaws?" ; )

Randy

Can't smoke with a full face helmet on...so mandatory helmets all day long for everybody. Also will protect you from head injury in the event you have a heart attack and fall down.

What's truly phunnie about that is THAT would prevent more injuries and deaths than banning rockets!!!!!

there's a risk with everything, even with safety equipment. seatbelts cause whiplash - serious problem sure, but without the seatbelt you wouldn't be around to enjoy it. airbags cause problems too, especially for underweight and undertall people.

lifejackets only work if you wear them. people don't wear them so manufacturers made inflating vests. the self-inflating ones go off at the wrong times (in a rainstorm; under the trampoline of an inverted catamaran, etc.); the manual inflating ones are no use if you get bonked on the head and fall over.

so, I wonder what would the wave of injuries be from a whole country of helmeted people.

we'd get cervical bone problems from all that extra weight up high. we'd get people who can't see to tie their shoes so would trip over their laces all the time, or else switch to velcro shoes. we'd get skin problems and permanent bad hair days.

on the bright side, it would probably improve general manners and driving because people couldn't use their damn cell phones!

Nah, someone would be sure to market a helmet with a built in cell phone.

I know they have helmet speaker systems for long bike rides... you can listen to the radio, and some even have intercoms so you can talk to the back seat passenger.

-dave w

Too late. There are interfaces now available to hook up your cell phone, stereo, intercom and radar detector into your helmet and you can program the priority of each item so, for example, the sound from the radar detector will override the stereo.

Intercom very handy, especially when passenger "need go pee". ;-)

be sure to leave your pee at an ATF approved disposal site, since the wrong people could potentially harvest the nitrate out of it.

And all the race car drivers, from F1 to NASCAR have figured out how to get their 2 way radios inside their helmets.

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