Click It or Ticket Insanity

[Ronbo]

You'll love this one...

In Florida it's legal to ride in the bed of a pickup truck, however if your in the front seat you must wear a seat belt. The seatbelt law was enacted right at the same time the mandatory helmet law was abolished.

Heard of a fellow that got in a wreck while picking his nose, drove his finger right into his brain. Perhaps the legislature can assign a staff of researchers to look into this hidden killer.

There's a lot better odds that cheeseburger you just huffed down will kill you, or the cancer gene you inherited from your parents (last I checked it was still legal to clog your arteries). Ejections are not very common, more often than not the car crushes in on you. Steering wheel chrushes your chest in and you spend the last moments of your life coughing blood over the dash.

People that work in emergency services lose persective of how real the danger is since they respond to these accidents for a living, in their eyes it's easy to think "it happens all the time!" in reality it doesn't considering the sheer hours/years that people spend behind the wheel. Who has a wreck every say 10yrs? I've had two in 30yrs of driving, both minor. One my fault one not. Both times not wearing a seat belt, didn't matter.

I guess my question would be where was all this concern when the tax revenue was just a'flowin in???