Safety Equip.

funny thing about seat belts here in Canaduh...
...if your car didnt come with them...then you dont have to have them...
BUT...if you put them in...and DONT use them...BIG FINE!!
actually...i think its the same in the USA now too

 

When I was driving fuellers in my early twenties, after trembling at 18 driving over 30 MPH, I got those belts on in a flash! When I drive, the car doesn't move until everyone is buckled in. One 83 year old spry, mouthy old neighbour got in the back seat one time to come shopping for groceries. She always buys a goose in the fall, and the only place that had them, had no bus-route.

She didn't want to put the belt on. I wouldn't move. She was smacking me on the head to move. My wife grabbed her arm, and told her to put the belt on or take a cab.

We saw too many 'road-kills' driving up from Guadalajara to here and when I met my wife, she wasn't consistent about the belt, either. After the move to here, she's just as passionate about it. The old gal finally puts the belt on, every time we take her.

 

...i've been racing cars my whole life...when i get in my normal cars...ya cant pay me to put on a belt!....

to each his own

 

I feel that way about air-bags. I'm not convinced that they really save lives at all. At least with the belt, you can undo it and get the puck out of there.

But I think its because the newer cars are mostly plastic, dependent on thin struts and the light-weight. If you get hit at 90 degrees, everything works, if not, say your prayers, FAST!

 

We've probably all got war-stories of accident scenes, so I don't want to go there, and I'm not going to try to turn anyone to the 'good' side of the force.

But I'd rather be in the eye of the tornado or hurricane that rolling around with the hubcaps. I'd rather be in the car, than thrown against whatever. Centrifugal, not chunked up or mashed.

Air-bags look like they could easily suffocate an unconcious or stunned victim, and they're too hard to move to get the belt off, if you're in shock.

 

Ok, another Chrysler story. Back in 1989 Chrysler was the only company putting in drivers side airbags on all their cars.

I don't remember which state but there was the first head on collision where both cars were equipped with airbags. The combined speed of the vehicles was well over 100 mph. Both cars were totalled to the point of determining what brand they were was near impossible. Both drivers walked away.

Then there's the Chrysler story where a woman crashed her car, which under normal circumstances would have killed her instantly. She sued for 1.5 BILLION dollars because her left wrist was burned by the escaping gas from the airbag. This was a circular first degree burn about the size of a quarter dollar. Of course she won. The case revolved around the fact that since Chrysler had redesigned the airbag, moving the vent away from the hands that they were admitting that the earlier air bag was a faulty design. The fact that the airbag had apparently saved her life was not admissable in court because the court could only consider the intent of the case...faulty design.

 

That's a sad story, TBird. A bad law, a good lawyer can equal a get-rich-quick card? And now Chryco is down the tubes? We lose in these cases.

Well, I hope I never have to find out whether they work or not.

 

If you really don't care about the belts, just lay them on the seat and stuff the ends between the seat cushion and the backrest. They'll look like the real thing, but you can take them out and no holes to drill.

 

well "I" dont give a hoot 'bout em but if it comes to the baby car seats, well then thats another story. car seats and babies i dont mess with. vbut thanks for the suggestions fellas.

 

things that make ya go ...hmmmm????
how ever did us old farts ever survive without seat belts?...bike helmets?..knee pads?...air bags???.........perplexin aint it??....

 

Thats because we had thicker skin and harder heads than this generation.

My wife tells me that if there was a contest too see who more hardheaded between a Jackass and me the Jackass would lose.

 

Do the wives all go to the same schools?

I get the same from mine, only in Spanish, unless its fixing something she broke.

 

It must be something in the JEANS