Sometimes... it's just sorry to feel bad for some people

[Monster2]

Regular motorist have to wear seatbelts... is asking bikers to wear helmets really too much to ask?

Motorcyclist crashes in helmet law protest, dies
By Barbara Goldberg | Reuters – Mon, Jul 4, 2011
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A bare-headed motorcyclist riding in protest of New York state's helmet law crashed, struck his head on the roadway and died from his injuries, state police said on Sunday.
Philip Contos, 55, was riding among a large group of motorcyclists staging an organized protest ride in western New York near Syracuse against the state law requiring all motorcyclists to wear helmets.
The Parish, New York, resident crashed on Saturday on Route 11 in Onondaga, New York, and was pronounced dead later at a local hospital, state Trooper Robert Jureller said.
"The doctor felt that the death could have been prevented if he simply had been wearing a helmet," Jureller said. "He hit the brakes, lost control, was ejected and struck his head on the road. He suffered a skull fracture."
(Reporting by Barbara Goldberg; Editing by David Bailey)

 

[ijustwannabefit]

That's sad but ironic. In Saskatchewan you are required by law to wear a helmet. I would even if it wasn't the law, but I guess that's just me.

 

[Emerald1]

I read about that too. It's irony that I can't laugh about. I wonder how many of the protesters changed their minds after that...

 

[San2]

I read about a woman that was staging a protest in some nature reserve. It was one of these sky diving things where they jump off low hills and buildings, pull the parachute immidiately and touch down. Not entirely sure what it's called, but I'm sure everybody has seen the pictures of people diving off tall buildings with parachutes.

Anyway, this woman and her group were staging a protest because the authorities had deemed the hill in the nature reserve park too dangerous to jump from, and had threatened the divers with fines and arrests. The woman jumped off during the protest, crashed into the mountain and died.

Her husband showed up TWO DAYS LATER and resumed the protest.

I really don't wish death on anybody, but really, how stupid can people be???

Sometimes I wonder if these things don't just happen to weed out the most stupid, remove them from the gene pool? Because really, would you want people like that to procreate?

 

[Iain1974]

"Just think how stupid the average person is,
and then realize that half of them
are even stupider!"
--George Carlin

 

[San2]

The good old Darwin Awards. Can't beat them.

Always leave me half way between amused and wondering how people manage to survive long enough to manage to get themselves killed...it's amazing.

And yes, I know, not all of the stories are true. Those that are are more than enough to make you doubt the existence of 'intelligent life' though.

 

[ChefChiTown]

I read about that too. It's irony that I can't laugh about.

Oh, I can.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

I wonder how many of the protesters changed their minds after that...

..or how many of them had their minds splattered all over the pavement after that. You know, because they don't...want to...wear...hel...mets?