This new seatbelt law for bicycles that's slated for '06 really upsets me

[mtnsnake]

I guess it applies to motorcycles and boats, too. That's gonna suck.

[Lady Effingbroke]

1. WTF?

seat belts on bicycles?

[mtnsnake]

3. Yeah, everything but canoes

[Lady Effingbroke]

6. where is this genius piece of legislation being proposed?

Seatbelts will not work on bicycles! What a stupid idea!

[aeolian]

2. Are people flying off their bikes around you?

Who the fuck came up with that?

[mtnsnake]

5. Feds came up with it I guess. For every state but Alaska

although they're enacting a seatbelt law up there for kids on their sleds to take effect in October I heard.

[Kathleen04]

4. Hmm--

I don't really see how keeping you tangled up in your bike would keep you safe.. :shrug:

[RC]

7. April Fools was 2 1/2 months ago.

[bikebloke]

8. What about helmets for bathing.

Folk slip and fall in the tub and shower all the time. And just because corporations manufacturing helmets would make a mint doesn't mean they shouldn't get some sort of tax break, too. It comes down to profits....um, I mean safety.


(I'm being facetious.)

[mtnsnake]

9. That's why conventional showers & tubs are slated to be outlawed in '08

Too many lawsuits. The bottoms of tubs manufactured after '08 will have to be made of astroturf.

[RC]

10. I wonder how much Merry Maids charge to keep

Astroturf on the tub bottom clean? That's gotta be fun.

[mtnsnake]

12. That's the price you have to pay for safety, but think of it this way...

Imagine how nice it'll feel when you decide to take a bubble bath.

ahhhhhhhhHHHHHHH

[enigami]

11. and holes in buckets so kids can't drown

[GoddessOfGuinness]

13. Why not strap us all in our beds while they're at it?

Or put us in straightjackets...That'd be a good way to keep people from presenting a terrorist threat. :eyes:

[Lex]

14. Not in my state we don't.

Do you have a link to the statute for your state?