Question:
And the fact that a construction worker wears a hardhat has what relevance
to wearing a bike helmet?
Answer:
I think the most important question here is, were they wearing shoes?
Gary, you have got to be the king of egregious comparisions. I know
numerous cyclists who only wear hemlets for organized rides, which they
do only because they're usually required as a condition for
participating. During rest stops and lunch breaks, they sometimes take
their helmet off, and sometimes don't. So what's your point? That just
because you saw some construction workers eating lunch with their
hardhats on, we should meekly submit to the hype and infringement of
personal freedoms fostered by the rabid pro-helmet faction? You've
managed to extract a biased, flawed deduction from a cursory observation,
and somehow related this to bicycle helmets. Newsflash: that dog don't hunt.
Furthermore, I'm curious to know how many of those workers kept their
helmets on when they got in their car to drive home, and what they would
have done to you had you informed them that they were all idiots for not
wearing a helmet while performing such a dangerous activity, as cyclists
frequently are told. The people you label as "anti-helmet fanatics"
generally don't volunteer criticism concerning another individual's
rights to wear or not wear a helmet; we're reactionary. I fail to
understand how you have acquired the perception that we go around telling
other people what to do. We leave that to people such as yourself who,
for whatever bizare reason, feel compelled to frequent this website with
repeated tales of why not wearing a helmet is such a stupid thing to do,
and why it's all right for you to regulate what my children should wear
when cycling, and how a 1/2" piece of styrofoam saved your life, and that
you don't think you should have to pay my medical bills when (not if) I
become a vegetable because I didn't wear a foam hat, etc., etc., etc.
In support of these arguments you quote your neighbor's cousin's
hairdresser's brother's friend who heard about a news report that
claimed a cyclist would have survived being run over by a Mack truck had
he been wearing a helmet, or you use "common sense" which is neither
common nor makes sense, or you simply resort to ad hominem attacks.
Then, when we respond to your insults and obvious trolls, we're branded
"anti-helmet fanatics". Go figure.
I beg to differ with you as a retired Union Carpenter, hard hat are hotter
by far. They stick up high for a safety cushion not for ventilation. They
are heavier by a wide margin. You obivously haven't had to wear one. OSH
made us wear them or OSH fined our employers.
"Don't want to wear your hard hat!!! Fine with us. You are fired! Find
another job." With construction jobs paying $25 an hour, one wore the hard
hat.
I have a big collection of Hard Hats that my employers bought. If you think
bike helmets are worthless, you might see what a dropped wrench or 2 by 4
does to a hard hat.
