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Hopper · #1 04-29-2010, 09:12 PM

Man "W" they eatin you alive buddy. Guess salty cajun is a strong supporter of the seat belt law! guess i would have to agree with a few of the post though. good news is that you don't have to wear your seat belt on the water!!!

dmouton272 · #2 04-29-2010, 09:41 PM

Glad it was you and not me

southern151 · #3 04-29-2010, 10:10 PM

Put the damn thing on! It's a lot easier than paying the ticket or spending hours on the phone just to prove that you have the stroke to make a $25 ticket go away! Pretty much shows that your salary isn't as great as you claim if you are willing to spend 3 hours on the phone trying to beat this likely $25 ticket. That would put your labor rate at $8.333333333/hr. You must be living large if that's what your salary is! LOL

It takes two seconds to click it and it may save your life! It takes more time to put the ticket in an envelope!

Salty · #4 04-29-2010, 10:15 PM

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Originally Posted by southern151

Put the damn thing on! It's a lot easier than paying the ticket or spending hours on the phone just to prove that you have the stroke to make a $25 ticket go away! Pretty much shows that your salary isn't as great as you claim if you are willing to spend 3 hours on the phone trying to beat this likely $25 ticket. That would put your labor rate at $8.333333333/hr. You must be living large if that's what your salary is! LOL

It takes two seconds to click it and it may save your life! It takes more time to put the ticket in an envelope!

Pass the salt, please.

Salty · #5 04-29-2010, 10:29 PM

W, I'll make a couple of phone calls tomorrow and see if I can get the violation lowered to Driving Without a Phonebook.

Asterisk-Rich · #6 04-30-2010, 08:59 AM

Cars got crushed...if they wouldn't have been ejected they would have been killed. The reason I know this is because there were other passengers in the car who had their seatbelt on who are dead now

Asterisk-Rich · #7 04-30-2010, 09:00 AM

If you wouldn't have changed the mobile style I would give you " the finger"

ShadMan · #8 04-30-2010, 09:57 AM

Hmmm...the BAN button still works in the mobile style.

Asterisk-Rich · #9 04-30-2010, 10:08 AM

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Originally Posted by ShadMan

Hmmm...the BAN button still works in the mobile style.

And your reason for hitting that button would be?

jchief · #10 04-30-2010, 06:49 PM

Been in the fire service for 35 years. Have seen, hell I don't know, probably 1000 or so wrecks. The vast majority of them that were wearing seat belts were better off with them on. Maybe 10 that MAY have been better off not wearing them.

It is not only you that this affects. How about your family? If the odds are better weaing the belt, would you let them NOT wear it. And the other ones that it affects, the 18 year old firefighter that walks up to the first wreck he ever works and the person is ejected and decapitated? Or the EMT that this is the one that gets him thinking about what if the teenager had been wearing the seat belt. Then the insurance rates go up because the people that don't wear seat belts are injured worse and spend more time in the ER.

Just my thoughts.

H2OFwlKlr · #11 04-30-2010, 09:40 PM

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Originally Posted by jchief

Been in the fire service for 35 years. Have seen, hell I don't know, probably 1000 or so wrecks. The vast majority of them that were wearing seat belts were better off with them on. Maybe 10 that MAY have been better off not wearing them.

It is not only you that this affects. How about your family? If the odds are better weaing the belt, would you let them NOT wear it. And the other ones that it affects, the 18 year old firefighter that walks up to the first wreck he ever works and the person is ejected and decapitated? Or the EMT that this is the one that gets him thinking about what if the teenager had been wearing the seat belt. Then the insurance rates go up because the people that don't wear seat belts are injured worse and spend more time in the ER.

Just my thoughts.

Chief, now you are on to something. The gov't tells us we have to do it, but it is the big Insurance companies backing it. Seatbelts increase odds of survival: 1-less payout on life insurance and Less chance of serious injury: 2-reduced medical claims which increases insurance companies bottom line!

Dink · #12 04-30-2010, 10:34 PM

There was a commercial a few years back that explained it perfectly......it was a state trooper. He said, " if you feel its not the governments place to tell you to wear it, that's fine.......after you've been in a wreck, explain to your child how you weren't gonna let the government tell you what to do when your Slayer up in the hospital.......

I too was in a wreck that I would have been crushed if wearing my seat belt.......I was lucky cause I was in a hurry and don't put it on.

Do I wear it today?? Sometimes......

Guess its all in the luck of the draw????