Seat belt laws can suck it! long read

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Blair C

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My wonderful state, as they usually do, have set up selt belt enforcement zones prior to Memorial Day weekend. And I, of course, forgot this and they caught me not wearing mine. So, yay, they get another $65 from me. What a bunch of assholes.

Surprisingly, they only have these enforcement zones during long holiday weekends (e.g., Memorial Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving and from Christmas to New Year's). I wonder why that is? To make money, that's why! Lots of traffic=lots of potential cash.

The rest of the year, they could give a shit if I'm wearing my seat belt. It's ridiculous.

As I've stated in the past, if the police and government truly gave a damn about the public good, they'd outlaw tabacco(sp) use, the leading cause of cancer. And they'd ban alcohol, which is poison to the body. If the U.S. gave a shit about its citizenry, we'd ALL have health care. We're the most obese country in the world, but millions of fast food restaurants open each morning selling fatty foods, sodium and cholestrol. The above enterprises make billions of dollars, however, so we can't shut them down.

They don't honestly give a fuck about our health; they just care about the Almighty Buck.

The more I think about it, the more I realize that we are all just a bunch of whores working for Uncle Sam, our omnipresent pimp. You want a job? Cool, pay me income tax, the pimp says. Want to buy a house? Awesome, that's property taxes for me. Buying a used car? Then I'll tax you for something that's all ready been taxed. Want a six pack of Budweiser? There's an excise tax for that.

It just sickens me. And this selt belt thing is the icing on the cake. I'm paying taxes, so this government lackey (a.k.a. a policeman) can "protect and serve" me. And what does this dildo 'serve' me: an additional $65 for the pimp.

That's all.
 
Seatbelts here are mandatory all year.

It's true, though. You have to pay for everything you do.

You have to pay to work, to get married, to be born, and even to die.

It's stupid, really.
 
Seltbelts are "technically" mandatory in all 50 states, too. But they hardly ever pull a person over for it and fine them. At least not in the three states where I've lived. Except during high-volume travel times. Which is why I bitched in the first place.
 
I once got a 500 dollar fine and a 3 month licence suspension for going 94 in a 50 zone on a perfectly straight road with nobody on it.

There was a lawyer not so long ago who was going 100 in a 50 zone down a road with a lot of corners in it, wrecked his car, and got away with it.

Lawyers need to die.

All of them.
 
If the government really cared about its people; they'd spend more on education than on warfare. They wouldn't prohibit the use of controlled substances; rather relying on people to make their own decisions and suffer their own consequences.
 
I think it's a little different in Texas now. They cracked down for a while, but I think it's back to "we can't give you a ticket for not wearing a seatbelt, unless if we have another good reason to pull your ass over."

So if your car is fogged up and smoky, you better be wearing your seatbelts.
 
I think it's stupid because my not wearing my seatbelt doesn't affect anyone but me. How the fuck can you ticket me for not wanting to wear protection.

Fuck Taxes. I got paid 363 but it got knocked down to 296. FUCK TAXES
 
I didn't read all of the other replies. But you should be glad the seat belt is there. One day you're going to wish you have it when you get in an accident and thrown out the window or through the windshield.
 
Hey,

If you read the forum description (available not only on the forum index, but at the top of the thread list AND the top of the "New Thread" page where you created this), you would know this does not belong here very clearly. You have absolutely nothing in your post relating to friends or family which is the definition of "Dearly Detested". Don't just dump crap wherever expecting it to be moved by a staff member. This can be avoided if you just read a 1-2 line description.

If this happens repeatedly, the consequences won't be pleasant!

...moving...
 
I'll agree with your full argument with the exception of this statement.

Did you know for 40-plus years they have been attempting to link ciggarette smoke to cancer? So far they found NOTHING.

Even if it was found to be a cause of cancer the government would only put a higher tax on the product because of the likely death-rate.
 
Hey man, there's an easy way to avoid a seatbelt ticket: wear your fucking seatbelt! On another forum, I've heard many stories of guys rolling their cars at 50+ MPH, and walking away, simply because they were wearing their seatbelt.

No, I realize you don't plan on getting into a collision, or rolling your car. That's why those two things fall under the category "accident".

A friend was driving a beater car out in the country one day, when he decided to swing a quick u-turn. He swung the back end around, and when it kept going a little further than he wanted, he let go of the gas, and the back outside tire caught on the grass edge. The car had enough momentum to barely do a complete roll down the side of the ditch. My friend, his sister, and another friend were the three people in the vehicle; they all had their seatbelts on, and were perfectly fine besides minor cuts from glass. None of them would have guessed that the car could have rolled from going at that low a speed! It still happened.

I said in another thread how wearing my seatbelt is so much second nature to me, that just recently when I was moving my van a few hundred feet at basically a crawl, something felt weird; I realized that it was that I wasn't wearing my seatbelt.
 
You know, it takes all of 2 seconds to actually put your seatbelt on and NOT get that 65 dollar ticket. You're complaining about such a tiny thing. It's so easy to do, why not fucking do it?
 
Personally, I'm of the persuasion that seatbelts should be optional. They can save lives, but they can take them, too. I know a lot of people who have been hurt more than they have been helped by seatbelts when it comes to wrecks. If I would have been wearing my seatbelt when I had my wreck Saturday, I probably would have been more seriously injured than I was.

It's the law, however, so I do try my best to wear it at all times so that I can avoid situations like this. :thumbsup:
 
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