"Dave Hinz" wrote in message
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On 20 Jul 2005 08:38:32 -0700, jim rozen wrote:
In article , Dave Hinz says...

Well, having been an EMT for a dozen or so years, I have some strong
feelings about helmets. But, I also have strong feelings about organ
donation, so I have this conflict, y'see?

Right, but you probably wear a full-face when you do (did) ride.

Hell yes.

That automatically takes you into the liberal zone.

Sorry, but I reject that theory.

True
conservatives ride without, or just one of those phony
DOT-stickered beanies because anthing else is a tacit
admission that helmet laws are tolerable.

I didn't wear a helmet because of a law (it's optional in Wisconsin
anyway, which may be why we have a very high organ donor rate here),
I wore it because I didn't want to crack the egg. And this was before I
was doing the EMT thing.

Funny how you get a feeling about that. I bought a new TR6 back in '63.
Beautiful thing, purple and silver paint job. I insisted on a helmet-----at
least that's what they called them then. Just a half thing, but enough to
maybe save me in a crash. I was totally inexperienced as a rider-----and
the crash came. Long story short, I ended up coming down on my left side,
head and shoulder first. Had it not been for the helmet, I'd have likely
been killed. Some folks might think that would have been a good thing,
but I'm damned glad I lived------thanks to the helmet, which almost no one
wore at that time.

Harold