Originally Posted by
Loose Chain
I have stopped wearing a helmet.
Last summer, after being attacked by two friendly, won't hurt a flee pit bull mix dogs and then laying in the rode with a broken femur sticking through the side of my leg as a result while the "friendly" dogs continued to attack me. Oh, so, after fighting the dogs off and passing out several times in shock and after laying in the rode for at least 30 minutes in 110 degree heat before a person came along and another 15 minutes before a cop showed up, guess what, did he ask me how I was, where it hurt, could I move my leg? Noooooo! Did he ask me if I was in pain, if I needed water, if he could put something between my head and the burning hot road, nope! Guess what he asked me as if to blame me for my broken leg, yep, he asked me if I had a helmet on!!!!!!!!!!!! WTH, the helmet I had used to whack one of the dogs and it came off my head anyways.
Why is it no matter what part of you is scuffed up the first question is "did you have your helmet on" and I am like if you notice it is my aXX and leg that is scuffed up, my head is just fine. What the heXX good would have a helmet done me?
Helmets make my head itch and as for the friendly pit bulls, I got something for them and it is not a helmet.
LC
First, I'm very sorry about your very unfortunate incident. And that cop is a dumbass for sure.
You can argue that Archduke Ferdinand was wearing a bullet proof vest, but WWI still happened.
Does that mean bullet proof vest are useless, as he was wearing one at the time of his assassination? Problem was, he was shot in the jugular vein.
Moral of the story is, a helmet will not protect against all head injuries (most famous one being the death of Ayrton Senna when a piece of the support structure of a wheel penetrated his helmet visor estimated roughly at 135mph.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_o..._Senna#Autopsy).
However, I still believe some injuries can be prevented with the use of a helmet. Therefore, it increase your odds of survival in some accidents. In my opinion, some is better than nothing.