The Glade 4.0

Yeah. That seemed totally obvious to me too. The word "darts" seemed to imply that all opponents would be throwing at a single target from the same location. The addition of the word "lawn" did not make me and my friends want to turn it into "crazy dodge the projectile game". If I suggested to the guys I hang out with that we have a round of "Lawn Target Shooting", no one is gonna go running off to grab their catchers mit.

I used to think helmet laws for the motorcycles were silly, it should be a matter of personal choice... a trip to rotten dot com fixed that for me. As a person with a type M endorsement, I now support helmet laws for motorcycles.

Don't get me wrong, I'm all about wearing helmets, but what does the fact that brains get splattered when someones head hits the pavement have to do with forcing stupid people to wear one? Is this just a darwin thing? Protecting stupid people from themselves?

I always thought the justification for forcing people to wear helmets was something to do with saving the taxpayers money by preventing people from incurring injuries they couldn't afford to have treated ...

It forces up insurance rates. Also Darwinism is the same thing as letting people rape each other because it's "natural". People should be protected from their own stupidity. It's why we put guard rails on ledges and bridges.

Darwinism is not the same as letting people rape each other; one is allowing accidents to happen, another is allowing people to actually attack each other.

Furthermore, bridges and ledges have railings because people can fall for reasons other than stupidity, such as it being wet, icy, they are unsteady on their feet, young, or a myriad of other reasons.

We protect people from their own stupidity in order to protect everyone else from having to deal with the consequences. Protecting people from their own stupidity just to protect them is silly and generally not feasible anyhow because there is far too much stupidity to deal with.

So Lex, do I hear you advocating legislating poor decision making?

Who gets to determine what criteria we use to decide what is too stupid to not be illegal?

I'm just curious. I have some ideas to submit...

In both cases, letting people act as unhindered agents results in bad events. This is why both should be prohibited.

Roads are often wet or icy, and drivers are often not paying attention. We should protect people from stupidity to save them from the consequences. Just because people are grown up doesn't mean they make the best decisions.

Pragmatically the legislators do, and the rest of the government, for obvious reasons.

I am just posting my own opinions on how I think the laws should be.

Don't get me wrong, I'm all about wearing helmets, but what does the fact that brains get splattered when someones head hits the pavement have to do with forcing stupid people to wear one? Is this just a darwin thing? Protecting stupid people from themselves?

I always thought the justification for forcing people to wear helmets was something to do with saving the taxpayers money by preventing people from incurring injuries they couldn't afford to have treated ...

And a lot of people I know who ride call helmets Brain Buckets; "because they will not prevent your head from popping like a grape, but they hold your brains in nicely for the paramedics."

Those people quite frankly are ignorant. A good quality helmet does not work like that in the slightest. Now, if they are refering to the metal caps that those against helmet laws often wear to technically follow the law, they might have a point.

There have been incidents where a motorcyclists head was RUN OVER by a semi-truck, but because he was wearing a helmet he walked away from the accident.

There have been incidents where a motorcyclists head was RUN OVER by a semi-truck, but because he was wearing a helmet he walked away from the accident.

MILWAUKEE, Wisconsin (AP) — Ryan Lipscomb lived to tell how it felt to have a truck run over his head. “Really strange,” he said.

Lipscomb, 26 of Seattle, suffered a concussion but was otherwise unhurt. He was shaken up, especially after he saw his mangled helmet.



Lipscomb, a graduate student in medical physics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, was riding down a bike path in Madison on Friday afternoon. As he approached an intersection, he said, he noticed the oncoming delivery truck preparing to make a right turn in front of him.

The truck wasn’t going to stop, Lipscomb said, so he slammed on his brakes, flipping his bike and landing in the street.

A moment later the truck rolled over his head.

“I didn’t see it coming, but I sure felt it roll over my head,” he told The Capital Times newspaper. “It feels really strange to have a truck run over your head.”

His black helmet was flattened, tread marks visible on the cracked frame.

Lipscomb was taken to a hospital and released about three hours later.

Police initially declined to call the incident a hit-and-run, saying it was unclear whether the driver knew someone had been hit. But Sgt. Bernie Gonzalez later updated the accident report to include the designation.

Police spokesman Mike Hanson said Tuesday there hasn’t been an arrest because investigators haven’t been able to identity the driver.

In a telephone interview Tuesday with The Associated Press, Lipscomb said he has had some lingering headaches and a stiff neck.

“All things considered, that’s about as good as it can get,” he said.

Despite the close call, he said, he has to focus on school because his qualifying exam for the Ph.D. program is next week.

“I think it will probably hit me when I’m done with exams,” Lipscomb said.

Lipscomb does plan to ride again, he just prefers to wait until after exams are over.

“After that, I’ll go out and get a new helmet and be back on my bike,” he said.

I've been looking all over the web for info on this and can't find any.

I wore full helmet with face shield. I took a dragonfly to the face shield that probably would have **** me up.

Facism is not a school of thought, it is a racial slur.