You guessed it. He died because he wasn't wearing his helmet.
Add this to the "not helping your cause" files.
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A bare-headed motorcyclist riding in protest of New York state's helmet law crashed, struck his head on the roadway and died from his injuries, state police said on Sunday.
Philip Contos, 55, was riding among a large group of motorcyclists staging an organized protest ride in western New York near Syracuse against the state law requiring all motorcyclists to wear helmets.
The Parish, New York, resident crashed on Saturday on Route 11 in Onondaga, New York, and was pronounced dead later at a local hospital, state Trooper Robert Jureller said.
"The doctor felt that the death could have been prevented if he simply had been wearing a helmet," Jureller said. "He hit the brakes, lost control, was ejected and struck his head on the road. He suffered a skull fracture."
I try not to be a jerk about people's deaths, but I have absolutely no pity for him. This guy was a ing idiot, and if you chose not to wear a helmet, you are a ing idiot too. No "buts", no excuses.
If you don't wear a helmet, and get in a wreck, don't come to me expecting any sympathy for your brain damage. I would be all for forced euthanasia for anybody in such a case if they became a nursing-home bound vegetable. That should be the social contract for your right to be a ing idiot. "Sure you can be a ing idiot, but you give up any expectation of help if it goes badly, and we will not pay the cost of keeping your brain dead ass alive to live out your body's natural lifespan."
Last edited by RandomGuy; 07-06-2011 at 11:33 AM. Reason: ok, I actually do have pity for his family. But he was still an idiot
I missed the part in the article where it said his family was in full support of his dumbass protest.
Point taken.
Saw this a coupla days ago...
still waiting for the riders who hate the helmet laws to comment...
Helmet laws are unnecessary. If someone wants to ride without a helmet, let them. Its not my brain thats going all over the pavement.
Whoops
BTW, RG, who's asking for your sympathy?
Darwin has a point, doesn't he? Why do we try to protect such people when they just contaminate the gene pool?
I see you're back on your eugenics crusade. Fight the good fight, brother
The irony's so thick you could protect your skull with it.
Irony strikes again.
By that reasoning, seat belt laws are unnecessary too.
It could be the difference between some 'other' driver being charged with wreckless manslaughter or wreckless driving...
I guess the 'wreckless' driver doesn't need anyone's sympathy either, but I'm sure there are occasions where it's the motorcyclist who is 'at fault', and provokes the accident and yet the 'other' guy also gets charged... under that context I'm sure no one here is willing to go to prison for something that could have been prevented by use of a helmet...
Of course the implied context is probably not as extreme...
Are you saying you want the government to protect people from their own stupidity?
No... but I certainly don't want to be the guy who has a legitimate accident and end up being charged with manslaughter simply because the motorcyclist was stupid enough not to want to protect himself...
wat a dumbass
Are they not already doing it with seat belt laws?
Should you somehow happen to find yourself in that situation, that's an excellent point for your lawyer to bring up. In the mean time, there's no need to restrict someone else's freedom to be a dumbass solely over your paranoia.
Then mount a camera in your car. I did. Caught an accident that happened in front of me one day.
It's not paranoia when something similar has happened to one of your friends...
So now their stupidity comes with a price tag for the rest of us?
Maybe you can buy me a vehicular camera, I'll PM the P.O. Box address...
They are. I'm okay with letting adults decide whether or not they want to wear their seatbelt.
It happens anyway. Someone doesn't need to die and the cost can extensive from medical and legal bills. A car is a lethal weapon, even when other cars are involved.
You know the system isn't flawless, so protect yourself. Don't go all authoritarian of others because of your fears.
If drivers have seat belt laws I don't see why bikers get so much sand in their vaginas about helmet laws. Though I don't really care about either law, I would wear my seat belt/helmet regardless of what the law is...
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