| Author | Message | ||
| Pete/RTS Daytona (Pete_rtsdaytona)
Registered Member Username: Pete_rtsdaytona Post Number: 616 Registered: 1-2005 Posted From: 97.104.18.110  Rating: N/A |
This is the new "wear your seatbelt" promo from the UK. It's being hailed across the world as a "beautiful" commercial. And now the video has gone "viral", which means it has become so popular with the general public that people are forwarding it to friends/family on their own so quickly that it has spread all over the world in a very short time. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-8PBx7isoM | ||
| Paul Lawry (Dreamscape)
Registered Member Username: Dreamscape Post Number: 667 Registered: 5-2007 Posted From: 64.40.216.52  Rating: N/A |
That's a good one Pete! I got into that habit many years ago and never leave home without it! It's amazing how many people you hear about that don't wear one, it's a life saver. Point well made! | ||
| marvin pack (Gomer)
Registered Member Username: Gomer Post Number: 930 Registered: 3-2007 Posted From: 71.53.153.91  Rating: N/A |
GOOOODDD ONE Pete! A lot of people don't realize what they mean to someone else until it is toooo late, Ane then it is. Gomer | ||
| Bruce Henderson (Oonrahnjay)
Registered Member Username: Oonrahnjay Post Number: 550 Registered: 8-2004 Posted From: 70.61.105.213  Rating: N/A |
I was driving down the Interstate at the speed limit about 3 years ago. A drunk, being chased by the police, running about 110-115 MPH rear ended me and knocked me off the road. My car rolled over (side to side) at least twice and flipped end over end. The investigating officers measured the mark in the ditch made by sliding on the roof of my car at about 68 feet long. I walked away with little injury. ALWAYS wear that belt. | ||
| Alex (Doctor_al)
Registered Member Username: Doctor_al Post Number: 15 Registered: 8-2006 Posted From: 173.202.13.202 Rating: N/A |
Luck may still have alot to do with it. 3 of us walked away with scratches and not a seatbelt in site. lost control on a curve, skid sideways till the car hit the shoulder. car dug in and flipped on its top. then slid on its top till it hit a huge oak tree. I believe when God say's it's time... then it's time.  (Message edited by doctor al on June 15, 2010) | ||
| Len Silva (Lsilva)
Registered Member Username: Lsilva Post Number: 371 Registered: 12-2000 Posted From: 72.187.35.208  Rating: N/A |
God says "Wear your seat belt". | ||
| Kyle Brandt (Kyle4501)
Registered Member Username: Kyle4501 Post Number: 575 Registered: 9-2004 Posted From: 65.23.106.193  Rating: N/A |
I've seen the high speed videos of what happens to the people inside the car during a crash. . . . That was enough to convince me that proper use of a seatbelt is better than not. (That & the time the clutch pushed me across the armoralled slick seat as I was turning left onto a busy street - later use of the seatbelt kept the clutch from pushing me up the seat too - '69 SS chevelle  ) I don't have the statistics, but I believe the instances of proper seatbelt use causing more harm than if not used are the rare exception. Buckle up. | ||
| Tony LEE (T_lee)
Registered Member Username: T_lee Post Number: 71 Registered: 11-2007 Posted From: 216.211.188.201 Rating: N/A |
Needs a similar message getting to all the motorbike riders I see riding without a helmet. Maybe the bandannas they wear have magic properties. | ||
| marvin pack (Gomer)
Registered Member Username: Gomer Post Number: 937 Registered: 3-2007 Posted From: 71.55.3.249 Rating: N/A |
Why is it that is a law to ride a bike with a helment and go back to the house and get on your motor cycle and leave your helment at home!! Duh what part of stupid do you not understand? If I can ride a MOTOR CYCLE without a helment why can't I ride my bike around the block? What am I missing?? Gomer | ||
| FAST FRED (Fast_fred)
Registered Member Username: Fast_fred Post Number: 1211 Registered: 10-2006 Posted From: 99.156.66.88  Rating: N/A |
If I can ride a MOTOR CYCLE without a helment why can't I ride my bike around the block? What am I missing?? Simple , children usually don't vote, Geezers on Harleys do. Remember way back when there were muffler laws? more HOG (Harley Old Guys) "rolling thunder" at work. FF | ||
| Kyle Brandt (Kyle4501)
Registered Member Username: Kyle4501 Post Number: 580 Registered: 9-2004 Posted From: 65.23.106.193 Rating: N/A |
Sometimes, the mass of the helment causes neck injuries, but with new materials, helments don't weigh as much, so that is less a problem than it used to be. Then, there is the arguement that kids bodies can heal when an old farts body can't, so they figgure to let the older riders stay off life support . . . . Bikes usually don't go fast enough for body trauma to be as big a factor as head injuries - motor bikes speed potential may raise body trauma risk significantly above head injuries. Based on my driving record, I figgure that my driving skills are better than most, but they are still severely lacking, so I'm going to hedge my bets whenever I can. . . . steel cage, seatbelts, airbags, ABS, etc Besides, it isn't MY actions that concern me most - it is those with out a brain that give me pause. | ||
| Justin Burie (Justinb)
Registered Member Username: Justinb Post Number: 26 Registered: 1-2010 Posted From: 209.254.23.194 Rating: N/A |
Quote: Kyle4501 --------------------------------------------------- "Besides, it isn't MY actions that concern me most - it is those with out a brain that give me pause." =================================================== Usually those without a helmet have nothing in the noggin to protect. | ||
| Roderick W. Chandler (Rod)
Registered Member Username: Rod Post Number: 48 Registered: 11-2003 Posted From: 173.184.52.227 Rating: N/A |
Motorcycle riders without helmets are called organ donors. We need those body parts let em ride. |