Hey, Steve just wants everyone to be safe, just like him. As you can see, he wears a perma-helmet:
Posted on 02/21/2007 12:37:08 PM PST by Rakkasan1
BOSTON -- If one lawmaker has his way, children in Massachusetts will have to put on helmets to go sledding. State Sen. Steven Panagiotakos said he plans to file a bill to require children under 13 to wear helmets while sledding or skiing. He said most kids already have bicycle helmets, and those could be used for sledding as well.
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Nanny
eye-roll, shaking head
SLEDDING! SLEDDING! They're going to allow SLEDDING?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!? The epitome of irresponsibility, I tell ya....
What about knee and elbow pads...and matresses around the trees??
Omaha was sued this year for a child who was hurt sledding in one of our parks...so NO more sledding in Omaha...
This isn't enough. All kids should be hermeticly sealed in a plastic bubble until 18. It's for the Children.
State Sen. Steven Panagiotakos is a sissy.
Sadly, I would no longer wager significant money that this was a democrat's idea.
I'd bet a dollar ,though.But there's probably a law preventing that ,too.
Because, after all, there's nothing more important than the chilluns.
It is my contention that anyone who walks the Boardwalk in any of our Ocean resort sites should be wearing a Coast Guard approved Life Jacket.
Little boys who go to Public Bathrooms should wear an approved Chastity belt in case a pervert is hanging around.
And do-good big -brother politicians should find something to do besides screwing in our lives personal lives and passing dipstick laws.
It is my contention that anyone who walks the Boardwalk in any of our Ocean resort sites should be wearing a Coast Guard approved Life Jacket.
Little boys who go to Public Bathrooms should wear an approved Chastity belt in case a pervert is hanging around.
And do-good big -brother politicians should find something to do besides screwing in our lives personal lives and passing dipstick laws.
State Sen. Steven Panagiotakos is a sissy Democrat.
Oops...same thing!
Oh here we go again --- big government taking control of your life --- Hillary would be salivating.
it's a sledding quagmire.save yourself while you still can.
I propost that Senator Panagiotakos be require to wear kneepads while pandering.
Geez, two typos in a single post, lol. That should be:
"I propose that Senator Panagiotakos be required to wear kneepads while pandering."
There. Much better.
Very good. I propose that Senator Panagiotakos change his surname to something more American.
Hey, Steve just wants everyone to be safe, just like him. As you can see, he wears a perma-helmet:
If sledding is banned only sledders will have sleds (or something to that effect...)
Trial lawyers are destroying our freedoms so that they alone can live in obscene luxury on landed estates so vast that the laws that result from their efforts will never apply to them.
When sleds are banned, only sledders will have sleds.
How ever did I survive sledding, biking, skateboarding, riding in cars, etc. without breaking a single bone or getting a scrape on me??
Oh yeah...that's right...I did get injured! BUT I GOT OVER IT!!!
Oh yeah, that's tough.
I'm 55. We grew up gargling mercury, had mattresses stuffed with asbestos and our parents used to toss us through the windshields of cars just so we would get used to it.
Can you imagine being a 12 year old boy meeting your friends for sledding, and you show up WITH A HELMUT ON???!!! LOLOLOLOL! You would never live it down.
If sledding is banned, only banned-its will have sleds!
When sleds are outlawed, only outlaws will go sledding.
Howie Carr would say "How many More Mr. Speaker?"
To have a sled and waste it is a terrible thing.
LOL, with that hair, he could get dropped on his head and he would simply bounce!
I've got fifteen years on you, and grew up without ever wearing a helmet for anything at all, other than football. I have very early recollections of standing on the front seat beside my dad, while he drove a car; we never wore seatbelts. I and my friends even liked to chase after the trucks spraying DDT for mosquitoes in the summertime, and rode our bicycles right into the mist. I thought it smelled good.
I propose a 7 day waiting period on sleds.
Include a graduated license formula ,too:
Any sled over 3 feet long requires training from a trained,gubmint safe sledding instructor and a special tax.
Sleds over 5 feet require a Commercial Sledder's License.
Special inspection stations will be required to inspect the safety of sleds carrying more than 2 people.
I'm 55.
So am I. How did we ever make it this far, TC?
I can see that he's really, really into helmets. I understand completely now.
I have the same memories. It must have been running around in the DDT clouds that did it to me.
I dunno how I survived childhood. No bicycle helmets etc. Sledding helmets? LOLOLOLOL My folks (mother really) us chased outside to play when we lingered or watched TV. That's all they cared about, that we weren't underfoot
What didn't kill us, made us stronger. Today's kids are wimps.
I'm 37 ...I remember riding down a steep hill on a gravel road on a tenspeed with a speedometer, going 40 mph...no helmut, of course...and my Dad was racing me!
"It must have been running around in the DDT clouds that did it to me."
Oooh, so that's why lefties hate DDT so much ... conservative mutations, lol.
As a kid,I once slid into a barbed wire fence good thing I had a thick snowsuit on.
I never got a cent for my mental anguish and humiliation.
Now you got me thinking to market a product "Helmet in a can hairspray".
Next up: Water wings in the bathtub.
KOO KOO, KOO KOO, KOO KOO!
When I was a kid the trail back to the top was marked with blood.
Nanny State Ping..........
I think I'll go sledding.......oops can't do that, there's no snow and no hills around here.
A childhood friend and I once got the brilliant idea to use the hood of a VW Beetle as a sled, on a big hill in a pasture. Put it this way, we'd have been better off if the barbed wire had held. They go reeeal gooood, is all I have to say, lol. If we had been a few years older, it would have been a definite "hey Bubba, watch this" moment.
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