Helmets

I don't get it; people ride their bikes all over town and all over campus with a helmet either hanging from their handlebars or sitting in their basket. It's never on their head. Haven't people grown up enough to realize that no one will make fun of you if you wear a helmet? Why even own a helmet if you're not going to wear it? I think that if you add up the amount of money that a person would spend on a helmet (which aren't cheap), and you add up the amount of money you'd spend on an average number of lifetime tickets, you'd be SAVING money by not owning one.

Some people might argue that non-helmet wearers is a form of modern day natural selection. However much I agree with this point, I must also point out that current medical technologies are so advanced that they work to keep these morons alive, sucking out more money from our health care system than needed. Money that I think could go to PREVENTATIVE health care, such as not implementing HST, or tax cuts for sports programs, etc.. Some say it's their choice to not wear helmets, my argument is that it's not my choice for our government to be forced into wasting money on a person who wasn't smart enough to wear a helmet.

I think Jerry said it the best:

"There are many things that we can point to that

prove that the human being is not smart. The helmet

is my personal favorite. The fact that we had to invent

the helmet. Now why did we invent the helmet? Well,

because we were participating in many activities that were

cracking our heads. We looked at the situation. We chose

not to avoid these activities, but to just make little plastic

hats so that we can continue our head-cracking lifestyles.

The only thing dumber than the helmet is the helmet law,

the point of which is to protect a brain that is functioning so

poorly, it's not even trying to stop the cracking of the head

that it's in..."

I just don't get it, so wear your helmet.

JS