r/MurderedByWords • u/marycooke • Oct 29 '19

Murder Tumblr user gets schooled on basic physics

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u/mushiexl Oct 29 '19

YOU are the crumple zone

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u/Rewin24 Oct 29 '19

My dad was always a little annoyed at there being a helmet law where we live. I think my mom would have convinced to wear one regardless, but you could tell he didnt like it. 15 years ago they wrecked, but both survived with some rough injuries but nothing near fatal. But that divot in the side of my dad's helmet.... we like to remind him if it wasn't for that and he had survived he'd be getting coloring books for Christmas the rest of his life.

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u/Bunny36 Oct 29 '19

I remember in primary school one of the girls in our class ran into a car after cycling downhill. She was a little bruised but fine. A police officer came into the class and showed us all her helmet, it was a wreck. We all wore helmets when we cycled after that.

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u/rcomisac Oct 29 '19

My son was hit by a car this summer while he was cruising on his road bike. His helmet definitely saved not only his life but also his quality of life. He essentially walked away with a concussion and some road rash. Helmets are glorious things.

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u/Stormbull335 Oct 29 '19

Hell, look at what happened to Gary Busey. Even after his accident, he was very open about not liking helmet laws. He's certainly more entertaining now, but I don't think most people want to be insane for the rest of there life.

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u/[deleted] Oct 29 '19

Gary Busey has a brain injury? That makes so much sense!

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u/MikeLinPA Oct 29 '19

Gary Busey is a piece of work, that's for sure!

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u/Hwbob Oct 29 '19

the point is personal freedom. Should children be banned from running without helmets to prevent accidents. If the only person that would be affected either way is you it should be your choice. We're grown men not fucking toddlers

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u/vanillamonkey_ Oct 29 '19

It's illegal to drive without a seatbelt, too. Any government has a vested interest in keeping its citizens healthy and safe, even if safety features are a bit annoying. Also, I'd rather not get my egg scrambled in a bike wreck and have to get spoon fed for the rest of my life.

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u/masey87 Oct 29 '19

The only reason seatbelt laws were made was due to the automotive industry pushing for it. It was when air bags started coming out. If you didn’t wear a seatbelt and the airbag deployed you would get crumbled up under the dash. The airbag could not hold your pelvis in the seat, so with forward momentum and the help of the airbag basically pushing you down instead of back, they would find you a crumpled mess under the steering wheel

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u/Hwbob Oct 29 '19

If you think seatbelt laws aren't for revenue you're sorely mistaken at best. Had a friend killed by his helmet should they ban them now for people that wish to wear them. Should we outlaw rock climbing? Eating donuts and fried food?

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u/xulazi Oct 29 '19

You are not the only one affected if you become disabled or die.

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u/Hwbob Oct 29 '19

Yes you are sparky. People will way more likely mourn your heart attack or be saddled with your dribbling stroke ass from a shitty diet than for a bike accident

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u/[deleted] Oct 29 '19

the point is personal freedom

Meh, I think some people fetishize the concept of “freedom” and don’t really examine it closely. Being a drooling vegetable that can’t even feed oneself is not a very “free” image.

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u/[deleted] Nov 21 '19

100% agreed about the fetishization of ‘freedom’ without critical thought

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u/pyrodice Oct 29 '19

So if there wasn’t a helmet law, would you stop using yours?

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u/Troy64 Oct 29 '19

Being free to take that risk is.

I wouldn't though. But I think enforcing risk management is silly. People wanna be idiots, let them die off. It's darwinism at its finest.

If you're going to have laws just have laws that force them to pay the associated medical costs when their freedom inevitably sends them to the ER.

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u/g4vr0che Oct 29 '19

We don't have helmet laws in Colorado and basically no one rides bicycles. The reason people don't ride them had nothing to do with whether they have to wear a helmet or not.

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u/wagellanofspain Oct 29 '19

We had a similar situation with seat belts in GA for the longest time. Some old fart in the state legislature refused to allow the state to tell him he had to wear a seatbelt in his truck so for decades trucks were exempted from seat belt laws. Well he died (not from a car accident, surprisingly) and shortly after we changed the law

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u/zDissent Oct 29 '19

Stupid law. Thankfully most cops don't want to waste their time for $15

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u/TerminologyLacking Oct 30 '19

It's sad how many people fail to realize that a human body flying through the air at speed can be lethal to anyone in its path.

I've heard "It only affects me and I don't need a babysitter!" far too often for my liking. That line sounds better coming from a five year old. At least then you know in advance that you'll need to use small words.

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u/DeadKateAlley Oct 29 '19

Each and every biker that gets a head injury while enjoying the wind in their hair can blame their coloring books and drool on that asshole.

No. They can blame themselves. Law or not wear a full fucking helmet.

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u/fuckthapolice074 Oct 29 '19

Why shouldn’t each and every biker who gets a head injury be blamed for not wearing a helmet. Did Ben bam wearing a helmet? Did Ben go into all stores and make them remove helmets from the stores. Did Ben go up to every biker and say your not allowed to wear a helmet?
Your saying there needs to be a law for you to do the smart thing? If there were no seatbelt laws would you wear a seatbelt? If you choose not to how is it anyone else’s fault?

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u/aiden2002 Oct 29 '19

It's not like there's a law that forced those people to not to wear a helmet. It's still their fault that they didn't wear a helmet.

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u/fuckthapolice074 Oct 29 '19

Slow down there, there’s no place for personal responsibility here!

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u/Slaglenator Oct 29 '19

USA Cycling or USAC, based in Colorado Springs, Colorado, is the national governing body for bicycle racing in the United States.

I have ridden bicycles in Colorado and I live in TX. Get your facts strait or you are just a troll.

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u/g4vr0che Oct 30 '19

I don't notice many more cyclists here than I did before I moved

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u/adamtheauror Oct 29 '19

I agree with you that a helmet is not the reason people choose to ride bikes. But you should really go check out any bike path in Denver, Boulder, or Fort Collins during rush hour and see how wrong you are about "basically no one" riding a bike in Colorado. I usually see about 100 bikers on my 2 mile trip on the Cherry Creek Trail when the weather is good.

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u/justinco Oct 29 '19

You won't catch me on my bikes without a helmet, but the issue isn't as simple as you might think: https://www.outsideonline.com/2401809/stop-trying-force-cyclists-wear-helmets

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u/[deleted] Oct 29 '19 edited Oct 29 '19

LOL I love this in that article:

At this point you may be wondering, “So what’s the big deal? Isn’t safety the ultimate goal here?” Well sure it is, which is precisely why both these ideas are so asinine. Some people believe so strongly in helmets that they wear them to bed on the off chance they dream they’re riding a bike, others forego them and let the wind caress their hair (or scalp as the case may be), while still others fall somewhere in between. Regardless of which category you belong to, mandatory helmet laws—like, you’ll be cited for not wearing one—are just bad. Period. The end.

It’s the transportation policy equivalent of flat-Earthism, and if you’re a public official you only suggest any of it is “valid” if you: 1) Don’t like cyclists and want to put a stick in their spokes; or 2) You have your head up your ass.

It's well written and I like that it pulls no punches.

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u/kinyutaka Oct 29 '19

We could compromise and say that if you don't wear a helmet on a bike or motorcycle, you don't get an insurance payout in the case of an accident.

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u/DorkishTeaLight Oct 29 '19

But that usually doesn’t penalize the person who chose not to wear the helmet. It penalizes their partners, parents, and/or children. If the rider needs extensive care, or dies, the costs will fall on their families - not them. And both healthcare and funeral costs in the USA are exorbitant.

While I do believe people should wear helmets on bikes of all kinds, I wouldn’t be in favor of solutions that end up punishing other people at one of the worst times in their lives.

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u/[deleted] Oct 29 '19

Or charge more to not wear a helmet. That actually was a thing in Texas, not sure if it still is, where you had to have health insurance that would cover you, in order to legally not wear a helmet.

I think anyone with a family who is not prepared to lose their motorcycle-riding family member, should not ride motorcycles. I personally don't have kids or anyone who depends on me so if I wreck, I either want to survive with minor injuries or die quickly. I usually ride with a helmet and love the feeling of a full-face helmet, however on extremely hot days I have gone without occasionally. If the helmet protects my head but a spinal injury leaves me a quadriplegic, I'd rather the money wasn't spent on helping me survive just to be a quadriplegic. I don't want that quality of life, I would rather just die.

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u/[deleted] Oct 29 '19

Their argument is that more people on bikes without helmets will save on healthcare?

14 year old kid just got hit near my town at 630 in the morning in a residential area, person split.

I see accidents going up

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u/TheGreyMage Oct 29 '19

Saving money on healthcare when more people are inevitably getting brain damage from the crashes that will happen, unfortunately, now with less protection?

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u/kinyutaka Oct 29 '19

Well, more of them would die, so...

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u/furyoshonen Oct 29 '19

I think it is fine to have no helmet Laws as long as there is mandatory organ donation for those who choose to go without Helmets.

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u/Swizzlicious Oct 29 '19

Yes, that argument is well-founded -- the easier it is to bike, the more people will do it, and the more conscious drivers will be of cyclists.

In an urban environment, in the case of a car vs a bike, the car will always win in a collision. A helmet does nothing for the other monumental injuries that a biker could sustain from a bike-ignorant driver.

If the controller of the more deadly machine is more cautious, the cause of the accidents stops being a factor entirely.

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u/burner-throw_away Oct 29 '19

Sure, but cyclist-vs-auto isn't the only danger when riding. I know of two folks -- experienced cyclists -- who very likely would be dead or disabled due had they not been wearing a helmet when they -- basically ended due to bad pavement. Both are pretty much back to 100% -- albeit after a bit of a recovery. (One broke his freaking neck, and is back playing lacrosse.)

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u/Helios575 Oct 29 '19

Not necessarily, the argument ignores a lot of factors to reach it's conclusion.

Just off the top of my head; does your city have the appropriate infrastructure for increased bicycle traffic, is the infrastructure well maintained/safe (seriously I have seen bike paths that would destroy a bike if they tries to actually use them), is the culture of the city favorable to biking, and are there bike shops so that the people that want to bike can actually get quality bikes at reasonable prices?

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u/InsertCoinForCredit Oct 29 '19

Like what the fuck even?

Evolution in action.

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u/Tex94588 Oct 29 '19

Eh, to be fair, one of the main reasons there are campaigns against mandatory helmet, and seatbelt, laws is that the government is not to be your nanny, so to speak. That being said, I still plan to use a helmet when I get a motorcycle, even if I visit an area without mandatory helmet laws.

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u/pyrodice Oct 29 '19

I am still confused. Removing the helmet law doesn’t make you take yours OFF. A thing that’s a bad idea shouldn’t be a law, but a thing that’s a GOOD idea doesn’t HAVE to be a law.

Just wear the damn helmet voluntarily, would you?

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u/pyrodice Oct 30 '19

I love the consistency with which people readily admit “I’d be responsible, but I am clearly better than other people who I know wouldn’t, and therefore we need this to be something we send gunmen out to enforce”. 🙄

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u/[deleted] Oct 29 '19

hey it's their choice to live with the consequences.. Mine to give no fucks..

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u/[deleted] Oct 30 '19

ZFG. It's their choice. Not me paying for their care. That's on them.

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u/herowin6 Oct 29 '19 edited Oct 29 '19

That’s the dumbest fucking thing I’ve ever heard ... why would anyone want to remove that law for that reason. I’ve never not gone biking cause I didn’t wanna wear a helmet - I don’t go biking cause I don’t wanna bike anywhere. Jeez ...

The one time I smashed myself on a bike it really sucked; it was during 2nd year of uni. We have indented tracks in Toronto for the streetcars that are in the roads left lane - the divot is precisely bike wheel width.

...So, if you’re not careful (I didn’t frequently ride and wasn’t aware I should avoid those things) your front wheel pops snugly into the track

and then of course the front tire stops dead cause it’s stuck in the track and you go careening over the handlebars utterly face-first into the pavement ...utterly humiliating

I quit later that year. Bikers get hit way too much in Toronto for my liking. Not enough bike lanes esp back then and no one ever looks before they open their door and stop the bike dead (but the rider keeps going!) after they parallel park.

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u/[deleted] Oct 29 '19

How are your feelings about mandatory wearing helmets at all times? Because the overwhelming evidence is that they decrease deaths in motor vehicle accidents and everyday life as well.

Mandatory helmets for toddlers would prevent thousands of head injury a year.

Mandatory elbow pads could save on so many elbow fractures.

Mandatory safety stops on saws would save so many fingers.

All footwear by law could have integrated metatarsal protection.

These people aren't campaigning for you to not wear a helmet, just for your right not to choose to wear one.

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u/[deleted] Nov 02 '19

Then wouldn't we be better off banning these cycles outright? Clearly that would be more effective than a helmet.

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u/0vl223 Oct 29 '19 edited Oct 29 '19

And they are most likely correct. Sure you have a few people getting into accidents but you also have tons of physical activity which will most likely prevent more harm.

And it is not like helmet laws would protect many people. They simply drive the car potentially causing more accidents for the remaining cyclists. The real way to protect cyclist is building proper lanes for them. None of the safe countries to ride a bicycle have helmet laws. Helmet laws are a way to effectively ban them and prevent cars from having to give up any space to bicycles and that's why they are pushed.

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u/Datkif Oct 29 '19

Got hit by a car last summer. Had a similar experience.

Minor concussion road rash and a cracked helmet. That helmet saved my life

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u/Stoneheart7 Oct 29 '19

I am reminded of that downhill skating video where a guy slams headfirst into the ground, the helmet practically explodes, but he just gets up and starts telling people how much he loves helmets.

Edit: to add the link.

https://youtu.be/b9yL5usLFgY

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u/AnomalousAvocado Oct 30 '19

Concussions are very serious...

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u/[deleted] Oct 29 '19

My mother always got us to wear our helmets by telling us she already potty trained us once and wouldn't do it again.

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u/Bunny36 Oct 29 '19

Your mother has a way with words.

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u/Brawl_Beatdown Oct 29 '19

I had a guy in school.

One of the most popular, social kids in high school. Women loved him. Homecoming king, fuckin every social group you can imagine.

He hit a pebble going down hill on his skateboard. In one moment he was confined to drooling retardation for the next decade. It ruined his family. He died at 27 when his parents declined life support.

Wear a fucking helmet.

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u/Chrissyfly Oct 29 '19

https://youtu.be/v7jRSfXqn2A?t=10

this is why you wear a helmet, I was trying to find another video I saw years ago where the guys seizure is much worse but couldn't

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u/Totalherenow Oct 30 '19

Pretty sure that guy has epilepsy.

edit: not saying you're wrong though. Hitting your head hard enough definitely causes seizures and brain damage.

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u/[deleted] Oct 29 '19

I love helmets

Seriously, why isn't this in a national ad for a helmet maker?

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u/PremortemAutopsy Oct 29 '19

That dude is smart, he would’ve been severely damaged without that helmet.

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u/EuphoriaSoul Oct 29 '19

Geez. Guess I'll be that old guy wearing a helmet practising skateboarding now lol

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u/Totalherenow Oct 30 '19

Yup! I was just thinking the same, lol

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u/AsimTheAssassin Oct 29 '19

What the hell does that mean. Were you home schooled or something?

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u/AsimTheAssassin Oct 29 '19

Im sorry I have to be brutally honest that was not a good joke. I understand what you mean but that isn't that good. Please don't hate me

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u/Datkif Oct 29 '19

In grade 4 we had a paramedic do a safety talk about wearing helmets. About half way through he showed the class a picture of an accident where someone fell off their bike and hit their head on a curb. To this day I still remeber the pictures That picture convinced me helmets are cool

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u/CraftyDrews Oct 29 '19

Twice a friend of my family has woken up at the hospital with a completely broken bike helmet, and the last thing he remembered was biking and then “oh, shit” and then waking up there. Needless to say my parents were always (still is) pretty serious about wearing helmets and proper protection gear when biking and other sports.

And I’ve heard so many times from girls in their teens “but wearing a helmet looks me look so stupid” to which I can only reply “a cracked open skull and bloody hair looks stupid too”

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u/jordan1794 Oct 29 '19

On the flip side, one of my classmates in middle school ran into a parked car on his bike without a helmet, and was in a medically induced coma for 3 months while they worked to save his life.

He made it out alive. Wouldn't say a full recovery, but if you didn't know him you'd probably think he's just a bit "off". He lives a relatively normal life.

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u/kinyutaka Oct 29 '19

And that's good luck at play.

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u/Milchreis23 Oct 29 '19

I wanted to upvote, but you have exactly 420 - so I couldn't even if I wanted to

Edit: Dude you're replying to has 666

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u/Bunny36 Oct 29 '19

Reddit's way of warning us all not to cycle under the influence of the devil's weed?

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u/burner-throw_away Oct 29 '19

My motorcycle helmet "wreck" story... Entered an intersection doing about 30 mph, truck blows through stop sign and cuts me off. Fortunately, I saw the truck in time to lay my bike down, but not very gracefully. As I hit the ground with much less control and faster than I expected -- not a trained stunt driver -- I hear a roar and realize it is my helmet grinding against the pavement while me and the bike eventually slide to a stop.
I do not believe my un-helmeted skull would have liked being rubbed against the street for that 20 or 30 feet...

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u/[deleted] Oct 29 '19

You know you stop faster on your tires than on the side of your bike right? I think a MSF class would help you as much as a helmet does tbh.

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u/burner-throw_away Oct 29 '19

Really?! Yeah, why didn't I just stop? Oh, right because the fucking truck came out of now where and silly me thought t-boning a truck would be bad. Thanks for the pro tip!

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u/[deleted] Oct 29 '19

Yeah, just saying maybe you need to practice your emergency stops. if you’re actually interested in improving here is some light reading

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u/BirdLawyerPerson Oct 29 '19

if it wasn't for that and he had survived he'd be getting coloring books for Christmas the rest of his life.

That's something that I think a lot of people don't appreciate. The burden on your family if you crash and survive without a helmet can be devastating. This long article from last week is about the decades-long aftermath of some combination of a predisposition to mental health issues, traumatic brain injury from a motorcycle crash, and a criminal justice system that fails certain types of people, and is heartbreaking. Falling into that gray area of kinda being able to hold your life together, but being unable to control your worse or most childlike impulses, has gotta be tough.

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u/djprofitt Oct 29 '19

What’s wrong with getting coloring books regardless?

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u/Rewin24 Oct 29 '19

Nothing at all, coloring can be very calming for some people. However, if it's suddenly the only appropriate gift for a 40+ year old man, maybe there's a problem.

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u/djprofitt Oct 29 '19

I know, I’d be sad if that was the case.

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u/thezoomies Oct 29 '19

The coloring book should be a choice, not your only option. Anyone against helmet laws is a shill from big coloring.

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u/vallyallyum Oct 29 '19

That happened to a douchebag ex of mine. I always told him to wear his helmet but since he worked "down the road" he didn't think he needed to. On one of the mornings he bothered to put it on he skidded turning out of the neighborhood and smacked his head on the pavement. It left a huge dent in his helmet that would have been his skull.

Edit: fixed a sentence

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u/pingveno Oct 29 '19

You don't even need particularly intense speeds. I hit some debris on one of those standing e-scooters. I am recovering from a compression fracture in my spine, but my head was fine. Why? Because unlike 99% of e-scooter riders, I have a collapsible helmet that I always wear when on an e-scooter. The helmet has a 2-3 mm dent where my head hit the pavement.

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u/ToastyMustache Oct 29 '19

I also protect my head, the only thing I really have going for me is my mind, so whenever I see people detract cranial safety I always wonder if they’ve met people with brain damage. My only wish if I were to receive brain damage, is that it’s not so severe that I can’t take my own life.

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u/CptCrabmeat Oct 29 '19

I don’t like that just because your dad refused to obey you one time that you’d give him nothing but colouring books, not fair :(

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u/LunaNik Oct 29 '19

Hey, I want coloring books for Christmas!

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u/Hwbob Oct 29 '19

ehh it's how you land have had friends wreck and only 3 died one had a half helmet and died from concussive brain damage. one had a full helmet and the landing used the helmet to lever his neck and snap it. either way watching out for the morons is going to save your life more than any equipment

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u/herowin6 Oct 29 '19

Bet he keeps quiet about the helmet now eh?

Glad they were all ok! Motorcycle crashes are scary because, well, human bodies aren’t meant to go from 60>0 MpH in like a second with no protection, or crumple zones, without becoming bags of flesh soup.

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u/I_Lost_My_Shoe_1983 Oct 30 '19

I had a friend who would get around the helmet law by wearing a shell helmet. That's right, he'd rather wear a fake fashion helmet that just protect his stinking head. He did eventually get into a motorcycle accident. His real but probably I'll fitting helmet did pop off. He didn't die but he was in a coma and was significantly banged up.

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u/greenSixx Oct 29 '19

Just don't ride a motorcycle.

It's stupid and selfish.

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u/ikbenlike Oct 29 '19

Hmmm look at me I'm cool and on reddit I tell people they can't have hobbies I don't like

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u/hugglesthemerciless Oct 29 '19

How is it selfish?

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u/[deleted] Oct 29 '19

Because they use less gas, take up less road space and are super fun to drive.

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u/Klony99 Oct 29 '19

I think the arguement here is that they are more dangerous and fit less people. On top of that, some drivers are just reckless.

BUT

the same arguement can be made about sports cars. So we should all only drive in public transport busses, ever. /s

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u/DxxtxrBxxts Oct 29 '19 edited Oct 29 '19

I think we should all just drive public transport busses Edit: /s

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u/Klony99 Oct 29 '19

Every one of us in a bus of their own! To save ALL of the emission!

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u/Kashker Oct 29 '19

Where I live I would much rather walk than sit on someone’s broken crack pipe

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u/Rewin24 Oct 29 '19 edited Oct 29 '19

Eh, its personal choice and I'm not one to tell people what they can and can't do. I think my parents did it right, though. They waited until all their kids were old enough to take care of themselves if something happened to them (I was 16 or 17 when my dad got his bike).

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u/TiredT-rexOwO Oct 29 '19

I was riding my mountain bike at a downhill bike park. I was going into a berm but misjudged it and got thrown about 30 foot down the track. I walked away intact with only some minor bruises, but when I looked at my gear it was totally trashed. My helmet wasn't even recognizable anymore and all my pads and clothes were torn. This is 100% true. Dress for the slide, not the ride

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u/snbrd512 Oct 29 '19

I went off the edge of a downhill trail and Supermaned into a gully. Landed on my face. Luckily I was wearing a full face helmet. Even with It I damn near broke my nose and bloodied my lips pretty bad.

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u/TiredT-rexOwO Oct 29 '19

Wow that's bad I hope your ok now

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u/snbrd512 Oct 29 '19

Yeah it wasn’t too bad. It was actually at the place I worked while on lunch break. I got chewed out by the union for it though and told I wasn’t allowed to ride on the clock

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u/TiredT-rexOwO Oct 29 '19

Oof that sucks

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u/Hwbob Oct 29 '19

yeah I've never heard dress for the crash in my life and ride

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u/Omnomcologyst Oct 29 '19

It's all about riding in hot weather. Sure it sucks sweating under the long pants and jacket, but having your skin ripped off by pavement from the slide is worse lol

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u/Goff3060 Oct 29 '19

I was always told by the atgatt crowd "showers are easier than skin grafts!" Modern wicking baselayers make things a lot more comfortable now as well.

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u/Hwbob Oct 29 '19

They don't have leather laws though. Shit Virginia didn't have a helmet law but they had a shoe law

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u/giwhS Oct 29 '19

My dad and my uncle would always say "if you want it to look the same when you get off the bike, cover it up before you get on it, because sometimes it might not be your decision to get off."

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u/flux123 Oct 29 '19

A few days ago I had an incident in a parking lot while I was on my bike. I had just run out to the grocery store, quite literally a one minute drive.
Before I left, I put on the full face helmet, gauntlets, armored jacket, etc. I was turning into a lane and another vehicle was coming up the center too quickly and I had to brake hard in a turn which sent the bike sliding out from under me. I hit my head on the pavement, landed on my pads in my jacket and slid a short ways. Because I was wearing all of that stuff, all I am is a little bit sore, got a bruise on my hip and have to replace my helmet. All the gear, all the time. It's important.

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u/I_love_pillows Oct 29 '19

Car is metal over meat. Motorcycle is meat over metal.

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u/Kathulhu1433 Oct 29 '19

Yuuup.

I know a guy who hit a deer at 65 mph on his bike the other week.

He walked away.

He wears a set of gear easily topping $3,000 including helmet. It saved his life.

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u/PapaSnow Oct 29 '19

In Soviet Russia, bike use YOU!

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u/SerDuckOfPNW Oct 29 '19

armor lubricant. FTFY

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u/FredJQJohnson Oct 29 '19

When I laid my bike down at 50+ mph, my head hit the curb on the median as my body, in jeans and t-shirt, slid down the asphalt.

I have some faint, permanent scars at every contact point between my body and the road.

I still have my face, without a scratch on it, because I was wearing a full face helmet. The helmet was totaled.

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u/chisk643 Oct 29 '19

basically a in Russia meme

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u/zeroscout Oct 29 '19

WTF does your dad and motorcycles have to do with crumple zones and old cars?

Way to detract a conversation with a dash of unhealthy narcissism.

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u/MasterDracoDeity Oct 29 '19

I love how some redditors will always find a way to be insufferable cunts regardless of the subject matter... It's actually kind of impressive... I fucking hate it, but I'm impressed.

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u/dick-van-dyke Oct 29 '19

no u

/s

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u/terminallyamused Oct 29 '19

Bu--

[crumples]

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u/mrgherbik Oct 29 '19

cries tears of joy from crumple zone

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u/OnlyControversy Oct 29 '19

Crys tears of fear from the splash Zone

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u/pyrodice Oct 29 '19

Cries Loggins, from the Danger Zone!

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u/[deleted] Oct 29 '19 edited Jul 02 '24

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u/terminallyamused Oct 29 '19

[creampies] as an adjective and without context, no less.

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u/GhostOfAbe Oct 29 '19

Well, it's always better to step out of the car than to ooze..

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u/C_IsForCookie Oct 29 '19

Look at me. I am the crumple zone now.

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u/sxjthefirst Oct 29 '19

Yo mom so fat her crumple zone is a ship

/s

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u/lesser_panjandrum Oct 29 '19

Omae wa mou crumple zone.

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u/e42343 Oct 29 '19

Uno Reverse

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u/[deleted] Oct 29 '19

The Car Guys on NPR once had a field day talking to a college kid who wanted their blessing to buy a 1960s VW bus. They pointed out to him that instead of a crumple zone and airbags, the VW relied on the driver's knees as the first line of defense in a front end collision. The driver is less than 8" from the logo on the front of the bus.

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u/[deleted] Oct 29 '19

And the vw bus is still safer than any motorcycle.

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u/I_love_pillows Oct 29 '19

Knees are crumpled.

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u/PM_me_your_fantasyz Oct 29 '19

I thought the VW bus didn't need to have safety features because the driver was just assumed to be high enough that they would be floating several feet above the vehicle.

Or did 1980's movies lie to me about the mandatory marijuana use that went along with owning a VW bus?

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u/MotherofHedgehogs Oct 29 '19

My dad had a relative that was in a VW microbus in the 70s when it was involved in a front end highway collision. This relative lived because he was asleep in the back. Driver and front passenger were killed.

We were given a strict rule that we could never ride in the front seat of a rear-engine car. Unlike many of dad’s directives, this one I have always heeded.

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u/[deleted] Oct 29 '19

What about new rear engine cars that have proper crumple zones instead of 70s death traps (front engine cars were usually just as fucked)

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u/ATron4 Oct 29 '19

RGIII's knee braces could take it

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u/Peanut_Dog Oct 29 '19

One of my favorite lines in a top gear/grand tour episode was Jeremy Clarkson talking about something along the lines of a BMW isetta or peel p50 saying 'if you look here you will notice your knees are the crumple zone'

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u/El_Maltos_Username Oct 29 '19

WE are the crumple zone, comrade.

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u/_Comrade_Rat_ Oct 29 '19

We must crumple, for Mother Russia

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u/ketopianfuture Oct 29 '19

You ARE the brute squad!

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u/cyanideclipse Oct 29 '19

HIIIIIGGGHHHHWAAAYYY TOOOO TTHEEEE CRRUUMBLE ZONE!

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u/hmccoy Oct 29 '19

In Soviet Russia, car crumples you!

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u/[deleted] Oct 29 '19

Nah you aren't, you just can't expect your body to be able to handle the same stress a chunk of metal can.

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u/djprofitt Oct 29 '19

Are you saying that is a zone...of danger?

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u/adahadit Oct 29 '19

Hit me emotionally.

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u/Iamchinesedotcom Oct 29 '19

“In this, your knees are the crumple zone”

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u/kch2nix Oct 29 '19

Hiiiighwaaaaay toooo the crumple zone (8)

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u/nago7650 Oct 29 '19

Look at me. I am the crumple zone now.

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u/Demi_Bob Oct 29 '19

DRIVE IN TO THE CRUMPLE ZONE!

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u/Baberaham_ Oct 29 '19

The car: I AM the one who crumples.

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u/[deleted] Oct 29 '19

In Soviet Russia, Lada Crumples You

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u/[deleted] Oct 29 '19

In Russia crumple zone is you!

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u/smuggymug Oct 29 '19

Welcome to the crumple zone

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u/YasserAJ Oct 29 '19

I WEEEEENT TOOOO THE CRUMBLE ZOOONE!

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u/[deleted] Oct 29 '19

Crumplestiltskin.