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You can smoke cigarettes and kill yourself slowly, but it's against the law to "take the risk" of not wearing your own seatbelt.
I don't want to pay to treat either one. The difference is with smoking there is a distinct possibility the illness came on due to other reasons. But for anyone who puts themselves at risk, fine. Just don't whine when the medical care bankrupts your family or yourself. Pay up of don't get treated. Just don't expect others to pick up the cost for personal recklessness.
I don't want to pay to treat either one. The difference is with smoking there is a distinct possibility the illness came on due to other reasons. But for anyone who puts themselves at risk, fine. Just don't whine when the medical care bankrupts your family or yourself. Pay up of don't get treated. Just don't expect others to pick up the cost for personal recklessness.
If you don't wear a seat belt and get in a serious wreck, there's no one else to blame but yourself for not wearing a seat belt. The law wanting to rob people for risking their life isn't logical, it doesn't prevent car accidents.
Is it illegal to kill yourself, what's the law going to do when the suicide is committed?
I for one think wearing a seatbelt is a good idea. I got pulled over on rt 18 E.Brunswick for not wearing one. I cursed the cop and was mad I was getting a frivolous ticket by some cop meeting a quota. The next day I started wearing it cause I was going back on 18 but this time a Verizon van plowed in front of me going full speed and I plowed the car in front of me and two more cars after that. All cars were totaled on the spot. If I had'nt worn a seatbelt I would have went right through the windshield and outside probably dead or permanetly disabled. For once I was glad a cop gave me a ticket for something as trival as not wearing a seatbelt.
If you want to die in a car accident, that is your business, but it costs taxpayers money when you fly through the windshield and firefighters have to disconnect you from the car or scrape you off the pavement.
It costs the taxpayers money when a man who has four Big Macs a day has a heart attack. Should they be illegal?
I don't want to single out your post, but I really despise the kind of thinking espoused in your post and the decisions it leads to. In the world you envision, everyone pays so much in social services that we are all interconnected. Sorry, but I choose to live in a free society, where choices are still our own. If I want to have red meat, a beer, and a cigarette, I don't want the cost of the possible long term health effects caluculated before they decide how much I pay in BS additional taxes and fees. Banning transfats. Mandating safety restraints by law? It's bogus freedom-violating nonsense perpetuated by health nuts, busybodies, socialist activists who envision us all in an interconnected unit, and insurance companies out of pure greed.
Yeah right--like a cop can see people wearing seat belts going 65+ mph.
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Maybe the cop can't but his dash camera sure can. Do you want to perjure yourself by telling a lie under oath to a judge?
he saw you put it on. what you believe is not important believe this you gota pay the ticket.
count yourself lucky he can also tell when he does an accident report, the teeth marks on the hood.
You can smoke cigarettes and kill yourself slowly, but it's against the law to "take the risk" of not wearing your own seat belt. NJ Transit doesn't have seat belts, are we supposed to believe bus drivers are perfect drivers or something?
Click it or ticket...They said that with dollar signs for eyes.
I don't know how you can do to prove him wrong though.
Is this the first time we actually agree, BPerone?
Good Grief..you admitted you were not wearing the seatbelt...just pay the ticket already
What ever your feelings on wearing seatbelts are it's the law...you broke it...were caught and now you are looking for ways to weasel out of it and make cop look like idiot
It is an odd quirk of human nature where a they will ignore safety for themselves and others, but will obey the safety rules if threatened with a fine. Look at BP.
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