Originally Posted by
busdriver1959
I love the CPSC ordered rubber covers on those things. The government was really doing a great job of protecting us. Just imagine what those things would do in a crash. There you are sliding down the road at 25 mph, leaving massive amounts of bare skin on the asphalt. If one of those touched you...well...it would touch you. Awful to think about.
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