For FSM's sake, who the hell STILL doesn't wear their seatbelts?

Every day I read a story about someone killed in a traffic collision because they were ejected/weren't wearing their seat belt. Seriously, in today's day and age, who is so lazy or stupid to not wear a seatbelt?

And don't get me started on carseats and children...:mad:

If per chance I forget to click them on, I go about 10 feet, realize they are not hooked, stop and put them on.

while texting my girlfriends and flashing my breasts at random passers-by.

Otherwise, I buckle up.

I seriously DOUBT they wear their seatbelts, however. :P

I HAVE to see that picture!

Think: long nipples.

A twenty-something co-worker of mine tells me that he doesn't wear his as a protest against government intrusion (the "Nanny State" as he calls it) into his life. And in the past year or so, he's gotten three traffic violations because of it, which caused him to rail against the system even more. He's in a self-validating, self-fullfilling prophecy of his own making I guess.

How in the hell do you argue with that type of thinking? I guess you don't...

make sure that asshat has an organ donor card

half the time it seems to be a teenager. And no one deserves to die that way.

1:30 in the afternoon, less than a mile outside of Glenns Ferry Idaho and suddenly we're out of control and the car rolled. After spinning on it's side across two lanes we went sideways into a bush at a speed so fast that the car tipped over the bush and back onto it's wheels. It was the weirdest accident I have ever heard of much less experienced. No air bags, just seatbelts. We walked away and after refilling the two tires on the drivers side we went on to Seattle.

I doubt we'd be here today if we hadn't been using seatbelts.

A friend of a friend knows a guy who burned to death because he couldn't get his seatbelt off! Doncha know? Them things is dangerish!

been ejected through the windshield onto the pavement at 100 mph. I hear lots of folk walk away from that. Some of them don't even have to be scraped into buckets, they can be stored in a blanket!

And that keeps you from getting thrown out. Silly.

I have a friend who hates the fact that the government has intruded into our private lives and made seatbelts mandatory. "But," he says, "I wear my seatbelt anyway because you'd have to be an idiot not to." So he's got the best of both worlds: he gets to keep his tepid libertarian-esque crusade against Big Guvmint, and he gets to keep his brains inside his skull if he's in an accident.


I also had a friend in high school who was absolutely certain that he'd be able to stop himself with his arms on the dash, in the event of an accident. No amount of physics-based argument would dissuade him, nor would he hear any claim that his arms would be as effective as wet spaghetti. He'd made up his mind, and that was that.



Stupid.

his arms would turn to jelly. Of course, that would be the least of his concerns. Some people are so stupid it amazes me.

his arms would be ripped off at the shoulders, and he'd slam face first into the dash/steering wheel. We asked him to bench press a Camaro, to get some idea of the forces involved, but he was deaf to all of it.

Haven't seen him in years. Wonder whatever happened to him...

When I totaled my Grand National (stupid VW Cabrio wench) I had my seatbelt on, BUT in the instant before the belt grabbed me, those 3 inches of travel I had with my arms locked up, I bent the top half of the steering wheel forward that distance. Even if your arms could hold, which they never could, the car would give. And the dash? It's plastic!

We in the biz call them organ-donors.

Years ago, he was in a horrible rollover accident. The paramedics and police officers told him that if he'd been seatbelted, he'd have been killed. Whether that's true or not I don't know but to this day, he will not wear a seat belt.

I wouldn't drive or allow my children to ride without one, but I can't get my own dad to buckle up. It's frustrating.

It is the first thing I do when getting in the car. I damn near go through a pre-flight checklist when I get in the car.

who feel that if they have an accident and are wearing a seatbelt, they'll be trapped in the car and won't be able to get out.