On Mon, 28 Apr 2008 08:45:06 -0700, "ScottM" <no@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> An aquaintance and friend of a friend lost her life about 3 years ago
>> in a very minor traffic incident in Toronto when the bag went off and
>> broke her neck. She was only 4'11" - and could NOT get an exemption to
>> allow her to have the bag disconnected. Her death has made it possible
>> for shorter drivers to LEGALLY have air bags dissabled in Ontario now.
>> There was NO VISIBLE EXTERNAL DAMAGE to her car, and according to
>> investigators it did not go off "prematurely" It was just a fluke that
>> it went off - but the results were predictable given her size.
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>> I don't think air bags and antilock brakes, along with miriad other
>> so-called"features" on today's cars should be mandated as standard
>> equipment - or even encouraged as "recommended" equipment.
>> People should learn to drive - - - - -.
>> ** Posted from http://www.teranews.com
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>So you can get thrown in jail for disabling your own airbag in your own
car?
No, but the automakers want to make it non-trivial to disconnect
them. You can if you have a good reason, and you sign a form stating
you are doing it on your own.
The automakers don't want to disconnect them, and then get sued by
your heirs and estate for the fatal accident where the airbags did NOT
go off... Doesn't matter that you wanted the airbags disabled, if
they do it (or even allow it) and can't prove your intent, they could
lose big damage awards.
>Thats BS, kinda like seat belt tickets and helmet laws.
Actually, there is a compelling reason to require basic safety
measures: Because when you get in the accident without seatbelts, or
dump a bike and center-punch an Audi without a helmet on, the medical
response teams can often save people who would have been by all rights
better off left to die - because even though you have been saved, now
you are a vegetable. Or a quad on a ventilator, or other nasty
outcome.
And when you run out of money and/or insurance (which in some cases
is immediate, and in others doesn't take long) you are now a 'ward of
the State' and Medicare/SSI Disability and Medi-Cal (or other state
programs) will continue to care for you till you finally pass to your
final judgment, all on the State's dime. And that means from the
taxpayers pockets, you and me.
If it was only as simple as the Biker's Credo to "Live Fast, Die
Young and Leave a good looking corpse" it wouldn't be a problem. But
they often don't leave a corpse, but a drooling sack of potatoes that
will spend another 25 - 40 years in a hospital bed...
>Next we will get tickets for eating fatty foods, drinking beer or
smoking.
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>Help me government! Save me from myself pleeeeeease!!!! lol
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>Probably not the drinking beer one in Canada though ;)
That one we can leave to social progress, for now. People are
finally figuring it out on their own.
Then again, there's the state prison inmate in (Kentucky?) suing the
prison system claiming "They're starving me to death, the food is so
bad and ****tions so small I've lost 100 pounds in 8 months!"
He doesn't mention he went into the lockup at 408 pounds, and is now
down to 308 on a standardized roughly 3,000 calorie diet.
Da-yum, and you are complaining?!
--<< Bruce >>--
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