[Spridgets] Why I wear seatbelts...

[Glen Byrns]

I spent 8 years doing tissue crossmatching for organ transplant at UCLA, so 
I don't agree with the helmet law.  As long as motorcyclists carry enough 
insurance to keep their brain-damaged noggins off the public nickle, they 
should be allowed their freedom.  There are thousands of kidney patients out 
there waiting for helmetless riders.  Several times I stood in a hallway 
with a styrofoam box full of ice waiting for the parents of a young male 
motorcyclist to say their final goodbyes before the "harvest".  The helmet 
law in California has lengthened the stay on the list for potential organ 
recipients and cheated Darwin out of his due.  But if they don't have 
sufficient insurance to maintain them on the tubes for their expected 
survival time, its not fair to make the rest of us pay.  Motorcyclists that 
dismiss this as an unlikely scenario have not stood in that hallway holding 
that box.

Glen Byrns

sorry for the rant, the memories don't fade.

 writes:
>
> Texas  does give motorcyclists a choice.  It requires those going  without
> helmets to carry additional medical insurance to offset the brain  injury
> costs.
>
> David