A while back, I mentioned (http://daleesperling.blogspot.com/2010/07/ray-criscoes-follies.html) an article that appeared in a weekly column in the newspaper about opposition to seat belt use. It seems the columnist, Ray Criscoe, had just received his second ticket for not wearing a seat belt. He criticized the law, critized the police officers who wrote the ticket, and expressed the notion that we should not be punished because we disobey the laws we don't believe in.
I asked readers to send him copies of reports when people are hurt or killed because they didn't wear selt belts. In todays paper, Monday, 8-9-10, Jeffrey Wayne Beck, 43was thrown from a vehicle and died. I bet if he could have a do over, he would not have ridden with a person who had been drinking and if he didn't change that part, he would have worn his selt belts.
But he doesn't get a do over.
Buckle up!
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