Where are the police and camera vans?

[FJRider]

all of that presuposes i'm going to drive into shit at pace.
i do not.

Your expertise on shit is well documented. You talk it often ...

[R650R]

all of that presuposes i'm going to drive into shit at pace.
i do not.

Sometimes shit drives into you, or even rains on you....

When I got hit head on in my linehaul truck (me doing 70 ish exiting town, DUI ute doing about 120 oncoming) the last thing I was thinking was someone was going to ruin my cruisey night.
End of the week, running ahead of schedule, even stopped for an hour to wash the truck.
I was 44 tonne vs 1.8 tonne double cab Datsun. Its the ONLY crash I had not wearing seatbelt, the mitsis huge steering wheel was the only thing that stopped me hitting windscreen or dashboard, think worst judder bar ever x100.
I was just so happy when I landed the parkbrake handle mounted leftside of seat only badly bruised the side of my hip and not the entrance to my arse!
Also its very disconcerting heading towards roadside furniture with your emergency braking interrupted becausde your foot following your body is no longer anywhere near the brake pedal.
Just do it man, costs you nothing and takes away another rprobably cause for the constabulary to harass your magna mobile.

[jafagsx250]

Correct... and my trucking bretheren are slowly as a community coming to realise that too. Theres' been tragic deaths in recent years of what could have been survivable rollovers but guys thrown out and squashed by own truck.
This holly wood shit of jumping out the door to safety is only pertinent at about 20k on logging tracks maybe...
Same on forklifts, its there to prevent you from jumping and being crushed by the forklift as it rolls.

Living by a busy intersection I've twice seen the results of no seatbelt, many times seen people walkout uninjured wearing seatbelts. The debate is over.
I will always remember one very blunt bystander, hard woman who used to own the motel. She told the victim "You wouldn't be screaming your face off ya silly bitch if you'd been wearing your seatbelt".... That one the driver walked out but the passenger had left classic spiderweb faceplant into windscreen....

Is it urban myth or not that ACC doesn't fully cover reconstructive surgery if not wearing seatbelt?

Well according to a turban wearing Indian at work it's legal for them not to wear a helmet and ride around. Sounds shit but I don't think it's a good idea to fund the treatment of those sorts of people if the rest of us pay out of the nose for registration and then have to pay for someone who doesn't even take the biggest measure to stop yourself from being a vegetable. Wearing a decent helmet.

[Swoop]

Seatbelts are vital. Plain and simple, much like those who choose to not wear one.

Treat a car seat like an aircraft ejection seat. Harness on and secure all the time, until you have parked up at the end of the flight.

"Cops like catching baddies"

Looking at the sheer quantity of evidence to the contrary (burglaries not investigated, just to start with) I'd disagree. IF you had stated "cops like being seen chasing baddies" then that would be more accurate.

Is it urban myth or not that ACC doesn't fully cover reconstructive surgery if not wearing seatbelt?

It would make sense. The same should apply if people choose not to wear a helmet.

[Akzle]

Well according to a turban wearing Indian at work it's legal for them not to wear a helmet and ride around. Sounds shit but I don't think it's a good idea to fund the treatment of those sorts of people if the rest of us pay out of the nose for registration and then have to pay for someone who doesn't even take the biggest measure to stop yourself from being a vegetable. Wearing a decent helmet.

*sikhs. and <50km/h

[5ive]

*sikhs. and <50km/h

Which is fine when they are playing bumper cars on their scooters in suburban peak hour traffic when delivering Domino's, but you have to cringe a little when you see them on the Auckland motorway when it's amazingly not congested.

[Akzle]

you see them on the Auckland motorway when it's amazingly not congested.

well now we all know youre just talking shit

[5ive]

http://www.metservice.com/national/t...-cams/auckland

Take a look for yourself

[Big Dog]

Psst... https://www.nzta.govt.nz/driver-licences/exemptions/

you can prove you are a member of the Sikh religion, and you're only travelling at up to 50km/h.

So feel free to shake your head.

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[jasonu]

Well according to a turban wearing Indian at work it's legal for them not to wear a helmet and ride around. Sounds shit but I don't think it's a good idea to fund the treatment of those sorts of people if the rest of us pay out of the nose for registration and then have to pay for someone who doesn't even take the biggest measure to stop yourself from being a vegetable. Wearing a decent helmet.

I totally agree with you but others will say

[jafagsx250]

I totally agree with you but others will say

People always cry racism on things they can't easily refute and that hurts their feelings or "offends" them.

[FJRider]

I totally agree with you but others will say

It's actually nothing to do with racism ... but more to do with religious bigotry. The "No helmet required" policy for those men in the Sikh religion is a common policy throughout the world.

But they are only allowed up to 50 km/hr ...

[FJRider]

People always cry racism on things they can't easily refute and that hurts their feelings or "offends" them.

And ignorant enough to usually get it wrong. The Sikh's that wear the turban do so because of their religion. Not because of their race.

[FJRider]

Is it urban myth or not that ACC doesn't fully cover reconstructive surgery if not wearing seatbelt?

http://www.acc.co.nz/making-a-claim/...-i-get/ECI0017

[jafagsx250]

And ignorant enough to usually get it wrong. The Sikh's that wear the turban do so because of their religion. Not because of their race.

I knew that Sikh are a religion not a race. I am not an idiot or more bigoted than anyone else is. All groups of people are just as likely to be shit or good as others.

I was more saying that racism is just a buzz word.

I never said anything about race. The Jason u fella did. I just mentioned that the guy who told me is Indian.

And I never said that they shouldn't be allowed to do it as I don't give a fuck about them. I was saying if they're taking a great risk why pay for their fuck ups.

But please continue to feel good about yourself by putting words into my mouth. Ever heard of the mote and the beam?

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