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- From: pfinkel@cbnewsb.cb.att.com (paul.d.finkel)
- Subject: Bike Helmets
- Message-ID: <1992Jul30.134746.18601@cbfsb.cb.att.com>
- Keywords: bikes, safety, law
- Sender: news@cbfsb.cb.att.com
- Organization: World Wide Cold Cuts
- Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 13:47:46 GMT
- Lines: 34
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- My peeve: New Jersey has a law that mandates that children
- riding bicycles must wear a helmet.
-
- While I do not object to other people wearing bicycle helmets,
- why must my kids wear them? Instinctively I would say that kids
- have fewer accidents riding bikes than adults because they spend
- more time on bikes and because they have sharper reflexes.
-
- I also feel that it is unfair for children to be forced to wear a
- helmet when adults are not. If children could vote, this law would
- have never been passed.
-
- Other peeves: The town I live in (Edison,NJ) has bent over backwards
- to accomodate building contractors (aka scum of the earth). Now,
- I feel forced to sell my house because the road I am living on will
- become much busier because of the needs of one of these contractors.
- The worst part of all this is that I am forced to perform menial chores
- such as spackling, painting and working on the yard. I recently finished
- the complete remodeling of my kitchen: new walls, windows, appliances,
- ceramic floor, etc. I am sick of working on my house!
-
- Why does my town pay its teachers one of the highest average salaries
- in NJ and not produce students with comparably high average SAT scores?
- What are we paying all that money for? [Note to the politically correct:
- SAT scores are an accurate and fair and standardized test of a student's
- ability to think in a logical fashion under a great deal of stress.
- While it might seem that these tests only test a student's "test taking
- ability", that ability is equivalent to the abilities that adults must
- possess in order to succeed in our society.]
-
- --
- Do unto others ... then split.
-
- --- Mary Ann Stasium
-