Is this a free country or what? If a guy doesn't want to wear a helmet that's his business right? I suppose the only problem is that if you don't wear a helmet you become an expense that has to be cleaned up by the municipal authorities. On the other hand, if you become an expense laying there dead in the middle of the road you are also creating jobs. I don't think lower taxes create jobs, but corpses do, because they have to be cleared, moved and finally, buried. Is life really worth living in a society where you can't ride a motorcycle without a helmet? For most of us the answer is emphatically "yes" but then again I don't ride motorcycles. Would you rather live your way for a day on your feet or crawl for a lifetime on your knees? Isn't that what the Romans asked? How did that go?
Sad story but there's a silver lining somewhere, and THAT'S WHAT THIS COUNTRY IS ALL ABOUT. Love it or leave it baby. Happy Fourth of July!
Police say a motorcyclist participating in a protest ride against helmet laws in upstate New York died after he flipped over the bike's handlebars and hit his head on the pavement.
The accident happened Saturday afternoon in the town of Onondaga, in central New York near Syracuse.
State troopers tell The Post-Standard of Syracuse that 55-year-old Philip A. Contos of Parish, N.Y., was driving a 1983 Harley Davidson with a group of bikers who were protesting helmet laws by not wearing helmets.
Troopers say Contos hit his brakes and the motorcycle fishtailed. The bike spun out of control, and Contos toppled over the handlebars. He was pronounced dead at a hospital.
Troopers say Contos would have likely survived if he had been wearing a helmet.
[Associated Press]
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