That very same thing can be said for every single person riding a motorcycle. Totally unprotected from ANY vehicle hit.

 

Your argument makes no sense..."certain degree of safety" IS wearing a seatbelt.

No, I wear gloves, I dont do it bare-handed because I like to complain about government making laws to try to keep me from cutting my own hands off. That argument (set belt laws) is just a cop-out, nothing more.

Sure, you can break your neck in the shower...but the shower is just that, a shower, not a drunken or distracted shower with a few thousand pounds of metal moving at 60mph right for me.

Sre you are, you just don't realize it yet, and by the time you do, you will have your head through your windshield, your steering wheel will have broken all of your ribs and bruised your internal organs, you'll be bleeding out and you'll spend those last few minutes of life gasping for breath thinking to yourself "how could I be so stupid?"

You will NEVER convince of us that have pulled unrestrained people (sorry, bodies) out of a car that it is somehow OK not to wear a seatbelt. No amount of rationalization or complaint about the law makes sense to anyone who thinks like a sane person.

If you think it is "OK" or "cool" to "stick it to the man" or whatever other ridiculous justification you come up with, I guess when someone like me arrives on the scene and sees you broken and bleeding out, you'll just have to understand when we stand over you and say "chalk another one up for Darwin".

I'm unsubscribing from this post, not worth my time to talk sense into people that refuse to think rationally.

 

Think rationally? You live in a earthquake zone where a building can fall on you at any second. A rational decision would be to move.

 

As long as all four tires are on the ground. As soon as one tire loses contact

with the ground, it's one of the most dangerous vehicles out there!

 

OK So the post has gone on a tangent but I'm gonna attempt to cool things...

Snowseeker, what I think some here are trying to say but not finding the words for is this: We like you as a fellow Ex owner and appreciate your contributions to this forum and we consider us all friends. That said, we'd like you to stick around as long as possible for yourself, us and your beautiful daughters. So maybe reconsider wearing seatbelts...for us. We all recognize it is your choice alone.

To the others, arguing over a forum will NEVER convince someone to change their mind or choices. Please respect the differences, even when it hurts to do so. I too disliked body recoveries from my Mountain Rescue days. It is a fact of life, people make choices.

Done with the hijack

 

I can appreciate the concern and every ones point of view towards wearing seatbelts. I agree in a crash it will keep you safer and can save your life. I'm not saying I don't ever wear my belt, there are times when I do use it. Like when traveling threw bigger cities, in bad weather conditions, when your body says he is gonna try something, stuff like that. But I don't use them in town when going to the stores or to get ice cream or something, normally when speed limits are below 35mph. I do make my family buckle up any time we go anywhere.

 

I can vouch that Snowseeker lives in a town most of us would call rural