Bike Helmets

footfootfoot · 11-08-2010, 09:26 AM

yeah, and had they let the kid off w a warning and he did a head plant a hour later I can imagine the shit storm that would have brewed. Great idea to let the air out of his tires.

The issue of helmet safety is a complex one, esp. for kids since I've yet to see a kid wearing a helmet properly. Usually they wear it pushed back so their foreheads are exposed. Might as well not bother in that case. The helmet is merely decorative.

Urbane Guerrilla · 11-09-2010, 05:03 PM

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Originally Posted by footfootfoot

yeah, and had they let the kid off w a warning and he did a head plant a hour later . . .

I knew, slightly, a perfectly nice guy who died that way. Name of Millard Drushal, died in a bike/car collision in Monterey, California. '77 or '78. Concrete curb on Franklin Street wins out over skull. A lid might have allowed him to get off with a concussion.

11-08-2010, 09:26 AM	#1
footfootfoot To shreds, you say? Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: in the house and on the street-how many, many feet we meet! Posts: 18,449	yeah, and had they let the kid off w a warning and he did a head plant a hour later I can imagine the shit storm that would have brewed. Great idea to let the air out of his tires. The issue of helmet safety is a complex one, esp. for kids since I've yet to see a kid wearing a helmet properly. Usually they wear it pushed back so their foreheads are exposed. Might as well not bother in that case. The helmet is merely decorative. __________________ The internet is a hateful stew of vomit you can never take completely seriously. - Her Fobs

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