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From: abc@brl-tgr.ARPA (Brint Cooper )
Newsgroups: net.politics,net.auto
Subject: Re: Massachusetts seat belt law
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Date: Tue, 17-Dec-85 21:18:00 EST
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Posted: Tue Dec 17 21:18:00 1985
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In article <294@frog.UUCP> tdh@frog.UUCP (T. Dave Hudson) writes:

>
>Now I wear my seat belt as a matter of habit, and take it
>off only in exceptional circumstances.  But I am getting
>tired of having these morons telling me what to do.
>
>				David Hudson
>
>Heil Dukakis!


You might be interested to know that "these morons" also pay for the
police who investigate the accidents, the ambulance and fire crews who
respond to the accident, and, in many cases, the very expensive costs of
a shock/trauma unit (well over $1000 per day) to nurse you back to
life.  In addition, other "morons" who also pay auto insurance premiums,
which I undertand are very high in your state, are underwritingg
unnecessarily high settlements because some other "intelligent person"
exercised his right not to wear a seat belt.

Perhaps the mandatory seat belt laws should be amended to state
that anyone hurt in an auto accident and found not to have buckled up be
required to assume the  full costs associated with his injuries,
including the cost of police, fire, ambulance, hospital, court, and
rehabilitation!

Perhaps the same should be true if the intelligentsia who ride
motorcycles without proper helmets.