I’ve done quite well in accidents wearing seat belts (even before I was forced to by Big Brother). I’d be just as happy with no air bag (or a bogus air bag), then with a bunch of pyrotechnics staring me in the face.
(no to mention the 100+ decapitated kids from air bags that did work correctly)
So, I think these crooks are doing society a service.
Ditto. Saved my noggin and/or my life more than once.
“I’d be just as happy with no air bag (or a bogus air bag), then with a bunch of pyrotechnics staring me in the face.”
I’ve thought of this. I have a 12 yr old Ram 1500 and I often wonder how stable ageing airbags are.
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Thanks Ralph Nader.
I realize you are stating an opinion, but I'd really like to see how you would defend your position to Mary and Bob Ellsworth.
The following snippet is from an article in the current Reader's Digest.
Would you be so confident in your opinion if it were your son and not the Ellsworth's?
When Mary Ellsworth awoke one morning, she noticed her son Bobby’s double-cab Toyota was still in the driveway. He must have slept over at a friend’s house, she thought. Mary and her husband, Bob, had always urged Bobby to stay put when he was tired and out late. “Thank God he didn’t drive,” she told herself.
It was July 2003, a mere month after two milestones: Bobby’s 18th birthday and his high school graduation. Mary was pleased that her outdoors-loving son was having a near-perfect summer, fishing and working as a groundskeeper at a golf course.
Her joy ended, though, when she answered the phone at 8 a.m. It was the San Diego medical examiner; Bobby was in the county morgue.
The Ellsworths learned that Bobby and 18-year-old Waylon Blocker had been visiting friends outside San Diego. Bobby was riding shotgun in Blocker’s pickup truck. At 1:50 a.m., they headed home to Jamul, California, on a two-lane rural road. Blocker crossed the center line and slammed head-on into a BMW with a driver and three passengers inside. Everyone sustained serious injuries; only Bobby’s were fatal.
But it was one shocking discovery that “really put the knife in our hearts,” says Bob Ellsworth. “The state police told us no airbags deployed in the truck because there were no airbags. Instead the compartments were stuffed with paper. Everyone on the scene—the police, EMTs, firefighters—couldn’t believe what they were seeing.”
In my opinion, the only 'service' these criminals should be doing for society is to be a means of disposing of old ammunition.