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    Re: [RC] [RC] Helmets (long response) - Lynne Glazer


    At 4:23 PM -0700 8/26/02, amber applegate wrote:
    This thread would go away if everyone with a horror story to tell would shut up. Sorry, but her time was up. I get so sick of hearing IF this and IF that, well IF never happened and so be it. Let it RIP. And of course the body in the casket wasn't her. Her soul left for another plane. All you saw was an empty shell. I wish ppl that want to wear their helmets would just do so and leave the ppl that don't want to to their own vices.

    I'm against mandatory helmets. That said, I sure feel more comfortable riding with people who wear helmets.


    When Tori took that spill off of her giant buckskin the other day, she wasn't wearing a helmet and thankfully didn't conk her head on the ground. I worry about having to provide first aid to a buddy who gets a head injury sans helmet. That said, I also worry about riding with people who are allergic to beestings who **don't carry a kit**. I'm gonna feel real bad when you croak, and it's not really fair to your riding buddies to put them through the latter in particular. Much less disturbing if you're just not wearing a helmet.

    We've had some serious horse wrecks in Norco, the latest a week ago, involving visible compound fractures of leg and arm, great blood loss--911 and the trauma evac. No helmet, who knows about her head. A friend had an accident while ponying a horse back from *another accident*, and cracked her skull open when she landed on her back on the bridle path. She wears a helmet now. I won't go on, no point in it. Only this: --New riders and new people to our sport should know of the risk-- Ridecamp is a source of information for both of these, and that's why this needs to be talked about periodically. Viewing the archives is not easy enough.


    This is starting to sound like a religious conversation with the christians trying to shove religion down the non believers throats. LIVE and LET LIVE as long as it isn't infringing on your personal rights and freedom. And an injury caused by a horserider sans helmet isn't infringing on you unless you got hurt as a direct result of that person not wearing a helmet. Lets move on.

    Got no problem about punching out when your time is up. People who *don't* die are pretty sad to watch, however. Do you know anyone who has had a closed head injury? Their life is *altered*, forever. Personality changes. Skills lost. I agree with Scott on the insurance premium thing, that is simply hogwash to think that our premiums will ever reflect a change when more people chose to wear helmets.



    amber........ who wears a helmet and would rather not, my choice and woe be the day when the law steps in and mandates helmet wearing. Another personal freedom snatched away from us in the land of the free and the home of the brave.

    I also deplore mandates from the government when it professes to know better. I think that mandating helmets is the next step to trying to regulate other aspects of our sport.


    I just want people to consider the ramifications of their choice.

    Personally, I need every synapse firing 'zactly as they did this morning (well, after my morning dose of caffeine) because I literally could not make a living without what's on my "hard disk". So that means wearing a helmet, and paying attention (which goes without saying when I'm on Mr. Rubberband). As SuG likes to say, Your Mileage May Vary.

    10+ years ago, I bought my first helmet and then didn't start wearing it for a long time--then I decorated it with car pinstripes and press-on letters and have worn one ever since. What a reason, eh?

    Lynne
    Libertarian

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