Posted on 10/12/2007 5:41:50 AM PDT by ShadowDancer
House Passes Bill To Allow Helmetless Motorcycling
POSTED: 8:11 am EDT October 12, 2007
UPDATED: 8:29 am EDT October 12, 2007
The state House again has passed a bill that would allow some motorcycle riders to go without a helmet.
Similar legislation passed the Legislature last year but was vetoed by Gov. Jennifer Granholm.
The latest version is more restrictive, but likely will be vetoed if it reaches her desk.
This year's version passed the House by a 69-39 vote. It now goes to the Senate.
The measure would let riders pay a $100 annual fee to allow them to opt out of wearing a helmet.
They'd also would have to be at least 21 years old, have two years of experience riding, complete safety training and carry at least $20,000 in personal injury health insurance.
Good deal, we need the herd thinned a bit.
The Governatrix has already said she’ll veto this. I’m surprised she’d let such a great tax-hike opportunity slip by, though...
Should be:
House passes Bill to allow Idiots to Off themselves...........
Michigan ping
” at least $20,000 in personal injury health insurance.”
Nowhere near enough for a serious head injury! Someone with severe head trauma will end up on the public dole. Taxpayers will get screwed.
bikers vote.
I would dare say owning a motorcycle is a good indicator of a super voter. (one who always votes)
At last, a solution to the perennial shortage of organ donors.
Didn’t Michigan just increase their local taxes by 1/2 a billion or so? Looks like they need to crank up the bread and circuses act up there. Keep the people thinking they are actually managing the state rather than destroying it. How many jobs lost this week? But look, no helmets.
Democrats just don’t have a grasp on reality.
the left used similar arugments when they tried to outlaw guns as a healthcare issue.
given the fact motorcyle helmet standards only go to 14mph and 75%+ motorcycle accidents are the fault of the automobile perhaps we need mandatory automobile driver education about motorcycles.
It is facinating the sheer vitriol from people who don’t ride or care to ride.
That’s sure to improve the economic climate of Michigan.
Acttually many bikers carry NON-donor cards because of the perenial rush to harvest. Thus they remove that save or donor question from the debate. As a non-donor the doctors have only the save end of the equation.
Thanks for the tasteless goulish joke.
“Nowhere near enough for a serious head injury! Someone with severe head trauma will end up on the public dole. Taxpayers will get screwed.”
I had a wreck on June 29th. I don’t remember what happened, I just woke up in intensive care four days later with six broken ribs, a concussion, a bruised liver, two broken wrists and numerous cuts and abrasions. My wife told me my head looked like a pumpkin with hair. If I hadn’t been wearing the helmet I wouldn’t be here.
The cost for the ICU stay (11 days) was around $60,000 dollars. That’s not including all the individual doctors bills and the cost of wrist surgery.
That being said, I’m in favor of letting people do what they want concerning helmets. Now whenever I see someone riding a bike in shorts, flip-flops, a T-shirt and no helmet I cringe inside.
I have two Honda Goldwings and have ridden cycles ever since I was 18 in 1973. I was in sever accidents where the helmet saved my head form severe damage. One where the helmet was unuseable afterwards. I cannot stress enough that helmets are a necessity...............
...and the rest of us are fined if not wearing a seatbelt in a car. ???
I feel that there should be the freedom on whether or not to wear a helmet [mine saved my life, almost 10 years ago!], but it should NOT be required by the state to mandate it. This law was done by the insurance co.s so they could save on their bottom line.
Also the $100.00 fee is paid to the state to help fix the their failed money problems & policies. There can be no price paid for a life to be repaired & or lost.
There is a more ghoulish aspect to this as well. the amount of organs to be donated has gone down as well as the required helmet laws are enacted.
Liberty to kill yourself. Too bad for the ones you leave behind huh? But to hell with them, just as long as you have the freedom to kill yourself.
As the mother of a non-survivor, I feel even more qualified to say that you might as well just go out and shoot yourself in the head now and be done with it.
The moms, dads, the wives, the kids left behind, they are the ones who really suffer. And it doesn’t heal like a broken rib.
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