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View Poll Results: Should seatbelt laws exist?
Yes 190 62.91%
No 104 34.44%
Unsure 8 2.65%
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Old 08-18-2012, 09:42 PM
 
Location: Portland, Oregon
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I don't like supporting laws that cause 5 year old girls to experience agonizing pain while burning to death due to stupid laws.
So you support children being launched from a car because they aren't buckled in in an accident?? Yeah, sounds like a real smart decision on your part.

 
Old 08-18-2012, 09:42 PM
 
Location: New Jersey
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I remember my father taking the family on a Sunday drive with a Budweiser and kids standing up in the back of the station wagon in the 70s.
We had one of those stupid station wagons when I was a kid. My brothers and I used to sit in the back and have people stare at us and we would mess with them. I used to be able to stretch out in the back of our caravan on long rides as well, long to me being 5-7 hours. I was literally sleeping in what would be considered the hatchback of modern cars. Nobody cared. I'm not saying that modern booster seats, seat belts and air bags aren't good things, but it's interesting how things have changed.
 
Old 08-18-2012, 09:42 PM
 
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I don't like supporting laws that cause 5 year old girls to experience agonizing pain while burning to death due to stupid laws.
Where is the link to this. Posters have asked yet you haven't provided it.
 
Old 08-18-2012, 09:43 PM
 
Location: USA
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Do you wear a seat belt preparing for take off or landing in an airplane? Or, do you ignore the instructions given by the flight attendants?
Not the same situation at all. Not a valid argument.
 
Old 08-18-2012, 09:47 PM
 
Location: Los Angeles County, CA
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No they are not the same thing, I do however think it is very important for companies that make child seats should go through extreme testing to make sure that these things never happen. This is an issue with the maker of a child seat, not a seat belt law. Learn the difference.
I want to become an attorney and i would probally turn down a case that sought to sue a child seat manufacturer due to such a circumstance.

I want to be a n attorney to help people - not to make money.

I certainly will accept a paycheck, however - if it is earned ethically.
 
Old 08-18-2012, 09:48 PM
 
Location: Foot of the Rockies
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I don't like supporting laws that cause 5 year old girls to experience agonizing pain while burning to death due to stupid laws.
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Are links the end all of any debate?

I got my inforation from a local newspaper - I can also tell you about a lady who was tied up and burned to death on 7/9/99 in South Whittier, CA at the intersection of Florence Ave and Inez St - will you say that I am wrong about that just becuase I can't provide a link? She was kidnapped from the corner of Imperial Blvd. and San Pedro Ave in Los Angeles too,

I'm sorry that you weren't aroud prior to 1996 - when people didn't have instant access to the Internet unless they were in the military, an academic, or had the funds to own a computer and subscribe to Usenet or other online portals.

Tim Berners Lee is a hero - Al Gore is not.
YOu keep yakking and yakking about this accident, but you show no proof of ANY accident at all! Yes, a link would be helpful in this case. We don't know what happened at all. I don't know what you're saying about 1996. There are plenty of links available prior to then. Show us some proof or I say this accident didn't happen the way you say it did.
 
Old 08-18-2012, 09:50 PM
 
Location: Portland, Oregon
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I want to become an attorney and i would probally turn down a case that sought to sue a child seat manufacturer due to such a circumstance.

I want to be a n attorney to help people - not to make money.

I certainly will accept a paycheck, however - if it is earned ethically.
So you would turn down a case to go after a company that makes something faulty? That is what you call ethics?
 
Old 08-18-2012, 09:51 PM
 
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YOu keep yakking and yakking about this accident, but you show no proof of ANY accident at all! Yes, a link would be helpful in this case. We don't know what happened at all. I don't know what you're saying about 1996. There are plenty of links available prior to then. Show us some proof or I say this accident didn't happen the way you say it did.
Good grief, I am waiting to read about this accident too
 
Old 08-18-2012, 09:53 PM
 
Location: Los Angeles County, CA
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Where is the link to this. Posters have asked yet you haven't provided it.
Read this post .//www.city-data.com/forum/25702631-post81.html

I read the story in my local paper in 1999 - it occurred 7 miles from where I live.

Neighbors nearby said that they wish that they had responded to the woman's screams.

She was a black lady by the way - murdered by a black man and his son - not that it matters. She was a human being who suffered terribly.

Why would you think that I would make this story up?
 
Old 08-18-2012, 09:58 PM
 
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Read this post .//www.city-data.com/forum/25702631-post81.html

I read the story in my local paper in 1999 - it occurred 7 miles from where I live.

Neighbors nearby said that they wish that they had responded to the woman's screams.

She was a black lady by the way - murdered by a black man and his son - not that it matters. She was a human being who suffered terribly.

Why would you think that I would make this story up?
Ok, now I'm confused. I wanted to see the link to the story about a 5 year old child burning to death wearing a seat belt
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