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My wife and I were driving downt he road yesterday and were passed by an older couple on a harley - she was wearign daisy dukes and a tank, and he was wearing jst shorts. They both had piss-pot helmets on. My wife asked me what was the poijt of the helmet if they has no other gear at all. "They want to stay alive just long enough to enjoy the road rash."

I rode without a helmet once, planned to go about 1/4 mile up the road and back to check the bike out after fixing a dislodged carb intake boot. Now, think about that for a second... I used the "just a short distance" excuse to ride a bike with no gear where the engine was not yet known to be reliable and could stall and pitch me off at any moment... Well, lets just stay as soon as I fel the cold scalp of no helmet I felt the kind of vulnerability that could only be otherwise be experienced by a puppy zip-tied to the grille of a car in a demolition derby. I made it about 200' before I turned around a geared up. In the UK where they have socialized medicine it is all citizens who have to pay for helmetless riders who become cabbages that need to be watered for the rest of their lives. But this is the good old US of A where we make keeping people alive into a profit-making venture. So, as long as your helmet choice only affects YOU (ie you have insurance) then it's your choice.

Agreed. if you're going to go head-on into a minivan or SUV then there's not much you can do to keep yourself on this planet. No amount of gear is a guarantee of safety. Even size of vehicle or not a sure thing either - Otherwise semi drivers would never die in accidents. Couldn't hurt to try though.

Fingers crossed that all is well with the rider.

Or some other leak in the fuel line that is causing the static pressure to drop over time. Leaking injector is a good candidate if you can't smell gas around the bike (especially if it is kept in a garage). Does the oil smell like gas?

Injected or Carb?

Great. So instead of being hit by one rock the size of Texas, we're hit by three rocks the size of Arizona, New Mexico and Oklahoma. With a few chunks of Rhode Island-sized shrapnel thrown in for good measure.

In the second video he was dealing was an ILLEGAL gun and he knew it. In the first video he was dealing with a LEGAL gun, and he knew it. I'm not losing too much sleep over the second video. However there's no excuse for the way he treated the CCW guy and ESPECIALLY the way he falsified his report to show that the gun was first discovered unexpectedly during a pat-down rather than finding out about it when the guy handed his CHL over. Of all the things he did wrong in the CCW video, the one I think seals his fate is the falsification of the police report that created a crime where none happened. If I was a defense lawyer then I'd use that falsification to create reasonable doubt in any case I defended where he was the officer. In fact, in any case where canton PD are involved, as I would argue that them "not firing the officer means they appear to condone his actions."

Seriously... Dude's pecker looks like a catcher's mitt.

Ever think the planet is trying to cook us off? Like your body uses a fever to cook off a disease? Are we the disease? Oh, and if the planet ever needed to have its temperature taken with a rectal thermometer, we'd stick it in Canton.

I'm just a simple Yorkshire lad... I'm used to average july highs below 70, and record highs in the low 80s. Ohio's average highs are higher than the record highs for all of history in the UK. BTW, watch out for a similar post in the winter time. Average lows that are ABOVE freezing are so much easier to deal with than mid-teens. After 14 years you'd think I'd be used to it, but apparently not...

...or the guy who does everything in his power to not look at you where you're sat next to him at a light.

What in the name of all that is sacred is THAT?? If "Bubba" was packin' heat like that then there'd be far fewer people going to jail...

Meh. GPS tracker. Totally passive.

I hear that argument a lot, but playing Devil's Advicate for a moment: I'm sure you would catch even more if you were allowed to randomly stop and search anyone you wanted. Or read the mail/email/tap phones of anyone. Or if you could install cameras an microphones in everyone's houses? You'd catch a lot of criminals then. By casting your net wider you will catch more criminals, but you'll also net disproportionately more normal people who are just going about their lives in good faith. I recognize that this country has a higher standard for pulling people over (in the UK the police can pull over anyone they want for a "Documents Check") and I am thankful for that. I just hope we're not headed in a direction were laws illegalize trivial bullshit for the sake of providing justification to stop us. Next thing you know it'll be illegal to drive in the left 12" of the lane on a tuesday if you're in a blue car.

The letter of the law states that the face shield must reach the tip of your nose. The face shield in the pic could probably be 1/3 open and still reach your nose.

ftfy. Palin?

Pumping gas in Delaware tonight. 7 cars in a row pulled into the gas station over the course of 5 minutes and not one of them had anything close to an exhaust. Sounded like B17s coming in to land.

And then tell us how the tazing went.

Nothing will be on the list - it will be settled out of court nowhere near a courtroom with no admission of guilt and the dept will train it's officers better.

"Don't try this at home. Now, let us explain exactly how to (not) do this."

I don't quite agree. I bleieve their job is to uphold the law and if that means by preventing common crimes from happening by using things like community policing, physical presence etc then they should be doing that. The point of investigating crimes is to idenfiy the perpetrator and punish them in order to prevent more crimes (either by stopping a recidivist, or by setting an example).

Pay-as-you-go policing? Make the bad guys fund the police, not the good guys.

He was threatened with execution. Tough to put a dollar figure on making a law-abiding citizen think he's gonna die, but I'm sure they'll sort something out.