Man protesting motorcycle helmet laws dies...because he wasn't wearing a helmet

[schiezainc]

I just don't even know how to describe this one. I know a man died and all and I should be sad but, golly, this is just hilarious.

http://beta.news.yahoo.com/ny-motorcyclist-dies-ride-protesting-helmet-law-143217859.html

 

[Starman]

He died doing what he loved -- driving his unprotected skull into the pavement.

 

[Lieslntx]

To me, this is very sad, because not a single person that was "protesting" with him is going to change their stance and start wearing a helmet.

 

[LongTimeListener]

Is this irony?

 

[BTExpress]

Not really, although on first glance it seems like delicious irony. But according to the definition, irony needs to have some level of incongruity between the actual result of a sequence of events and the normal or expected result.

Thus, although not quite as interesting, had the person died on the way home from taking a motorcycle safety course, that would be a more accurate case of irony.

 

[Baron Scicluna]

God Hates Helmetless Motorcycle Riders!" {Westboro Baptist Church}

 

[D-3 Fan]

To me, this is very sad, because not a single person that was "protesting" with him is going to change their stance and start wearing a helmet.

Of course not. They'll start blaming and suing the state DOT for ensuring that the highway was safe.

Like to say it's sad, but he chose not to wear a helmet. Darwin rules.

 

[Steak Snabler]

At least he got to feel the wind whipping through his hair right before his forehead hit the pavement ...

 

[imjustagirl]

I'd like to think that the last thing that went through his head, other than the pavement, was to wonder how the hell that motorcycle ever got the best of him.

 

[slappy4428]

I'd like to think that the last thing that went through his head, other than the pavement, was to wonder how the hell that motorcycle ever got the best of him.

Nice...

 

[bbnews60]

As someone who visits Maine and New Hampshire often, the sight of motorcyclists pulling over at, or just after. crossing the border of those states to take their helmets off has always mystified me.

It's just so far beyond stupid that it defies words.

 

[JonnyD]

Not really, although on first glance it seems like delicious irony. But according to the definition, irony needs to have some level of incongruity between the actual result of a sequence of events and the normal or expected result.

Thus, although not quite as interesting, had the person died on the way home from taking a motorcycle safety course, that would be a more accurate case of irony.

I hate myself for going down into one of these ridiculous "definition of irony" debates (the common usage of a word is the definition, and this is one of the many words with multiple meanings), but his expectation was that he'd prove that motorcyclists are fine without helmets. He proved they were not. There was an incongruity between his expected result and the actual result.

 

[93Devil]

As someone who visits Maine and New Hampshire often, the sight of motorcyclists pulling over at, or just after. crossing the border of those states to take their helmets off has always mystified me.

It's just so far beyond stupid that it defies words.

Helmet or no helmet, riding a motorcycle is not the wisest thing to do.

God bless people who do, but you will never see me on one.

 

[outofplace]

My brother rides. He had to give it up for a few years for health reasons, but I recently found out he had started again. I was going to send the story I did with pictures from a fatal motorcycle accident scene, but I realized it was pointless. He has seen much worse as an EMT.

He insists that any accident that would kill him without a helmet would most likely kill or paralyze him anyway. He's even more stubborn than I am, so you can imagine how productive those conversations are. Stories like these get me pissed off at him all over again (good timing for it, too, since he's here visiting this week).

 

[zagoshe]

My brother rides. He had to give it up for a few years for health reasons, but I recently found out he had started again. I was going to send the story I did with pictures from a fatal motorcycle accident scene, but I realized it was pointless. He has seen much worse as an EMT.

He insists that any accident that would kill him without a helmet would most likely kill or paralyze him anyway. He's even more stubborn than I am, so you can imagine how productive those conversations are. Stories like these get me pissed off at him all over again (good timing for it, too, since he's here visiting this week).

Well if you ride his motorcycle, no need to wear a helmet because there is nothing to protect....

 

[zagoshe]

As someone who visits Maine and New Hampshire often, the sight of motorcyclists pulling over at, or just after. crossing the border of those states to take their helmets off has always mystified me.

It's just so far beyond stupid that it defies words.

You may think it is stupid but guess what - in this country we have the right to be stupid.

And just like the decision to wear a seat belt, the decision to wear a helmet is each individual's decision to make - not some whiny ass political action group or politician.

 

[Oz]

My brother rides. He had to give it up for a few years for health reasons, but I recently found out he had started again. I was going to send the story I did with pictures from a fatal motorcycle accident scene, but I realized it was pointless. He has seen much worse as an EMT.

He insists that any accident that would kill him without a helmet would most likely kill or paralyze him anyway. He's even more stubborn than I am, so you can imagine how productive those conversations are. Stories like these get me pissed off at him all over again (good timing for it, too, since he's here visiting this week).

Well if you ride his motorcycle, no need to wear a helmet because there is nothing to protect....

 

[Beef03]

Was Ben Roethlisberger among those protesting?

My dad's a minister, and has said numerous times he would disown me if I bought a motorcycle. He's buried too many who have been in motorcycle accidents.

The city closest to my hometown is an oil city. I also worked at the paper there. It is a city where there are too many young people with too much money and too much time on their hands. This leads to two things there, a huge drug trade, and far too many idiots on crotch rockets. They like to do wheelies all the way down the main drag, in and out of heavy oil traffic and some of the worst drivers in the country. This one evening during a heavy rainstorm, about a block from where I lived -- I was home at the time -- this one guy in his early 20s is out ****ing around on his crotch rocket in front of his house in a residential area doing different tricks, no helmet of course. At one point he calls out his younger brother and girlfriend to watch him do trick. He winds up losing control and braining himself on a trailer hitch of a truck. I have no sympathy for these retards. Your brains on the pavement or a trailer hitch is not a cool look.

 

[Shoeless Joe]

It's those 20-somethings ****ing around on crotch rockets where most of your statistics come from. The overwhelming majority of your accidents involve some kind of cocktail of youth, speed and stupidity.

The biggest danger to older guys on cruisers riding back-and-forth to work and down isolated roads is the stupid cagers that are too busy talking on their phone or too cool to be bothered to pay attention. Ride defensively.

I ride almost daily. If you don't, that's your business. I wear a helmet 100 percent of the time. (I wear a helmet 100 percent of the time when I'm on my bicycle, too). Accidents can happen any time, any place. When you hear about someone falling and dying in their shower do you avoid bathing because you're scared you'll get injured?

 

[outofplace]

My brother rides. He had to give it up for a few years for health reasons, but I recently found out he had started again. I was going to send the story I did with pictures from a fatal motorcycle accident scene, but I realized it was pointless. He has seen much worse as an EMT.

He insists that any accident that would kill him without a helmet would most likely kill or paralyze him anyway. He's even more stubborn than I am, so you can imagine how productive those conversations are. Stories like these get me pissed off at him all over again (good timing for it, too, since he's here visiting this week).

Well if you ride his motorcycle, no need to wear a helmet because there is nothing to protect....