Natural Selection in Action
Spotted on Calvert Street NW this morning: Some rocket scientist riding a Vespa sans helmet. Normally I cheer on attempts to lighten the gene pool of IQs like his, but, seriously, Einstein---how about giving some thought to those of us who may be collateral damage when you have the inevitable accident on your fancy green moped?
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3:06 pm
Where is your logic?
1st: What does the helmet have to do with collision damage?
Obviously, if scooter is going to crash, collision damage to you will be the same, regardless if rider had a helmet or not.
2nd: scooter is not a motorcycle. So your link is pointless to start with.
3rd: Link shows that motorcycles are more likely to crash, but does not say anything about collision damage relative to the cars. Obviously, damage from car or truck is going to be much more severe than from Vespa.
3:12 pm
IN a regrettably unlikely event some moped operator indeed caused such a damage, a majority of the District residents would cheer on lightening the gene pool of IQs like yours, Andrew.
The likeliness of your being damaged by a 4-wheeler is immeasurably higher, Spinoza.
4:15 pm
Mike, you're not seriously arguing that helmets don't save lives, are you? Because the stats don't bear that out. Insurance companies consider scooters motorcycles. So do DMVs. I apologize for the moped joke; it's just so good for making scooter people angry.
Ernest: So glad to have you back.
5:09 pm
Your ignorance is frightening, Ernest. The more I think of it, the more I’m convinced that Andrew was more Darwin-like, actually.
What’s really baffling however is that the traffic rules on Calvert street appear to be different from the rest of America.
5:16 pm
hey, of course helmets save lives. Of the guys who wear them. But they don't reduce collateral collision damage, the one you were worrying about. Therefore, for you it should be irrelevant, if he wears helmet or not. Moreover, perhaps, without helmet he would be more careful not to collide with you, than if he had one!
5:50 pm
Right on the button, Mike.
Beaky, if your existence is discolored it's because of your inherent lack of cultural literacy. The pic is a actually a shot from “The Easy Rider” - the seminal American classic of the late 70s. Never heard of the counterculture, did you?
12:00 am
The helmet is going to keep (hopefully) your most precious organ intact, in case of accident. I did not mean your dingus, dingus-head! Scooters are usually operated by those that are too geeky to ride motorcycles- real, fast, hard-core motorcycles. There may be need to lower the level of the gene pool, but I don't think scooter riders are the right place to start. Worthless journalists, though, lots of room for movement, there. Every want to reide a scooter, maybe a motorcycle? How about a moped? Come on, Andrew, it's fun! WHEEEE!
7:14 pm
Really? That pic is from Easy Rider? Huh.
Chances of one being in a car accident are indeed higher because THERE ARE FAR MORE CARS ON THE ROAD. One of the most common motorcycle/scooter/moped accident is...wait for it...BEING HIT BY A CAR.
Andrew - wouldn't logic follow that if one was careless enough to disregard their own safety, the safety of others would be equally disregarded if not more so? Lame.
And please, let's not get into the whole "real" motorcycle or "people that ride scooters are X type" BS. Might as well start arguing what qualifies as a "real" car or "people that drive a Ford are C type".
7:23 am
Thing of all the organs for transplant that wouldn't be there if he wore a helmet!
7:06 pm
That picture is quite obviously from Quadrophenia, not Easy Rider. And it's not New York Jimmy's riding through, it's Goldhawk Road in Shepherd's Bush, London. Believe me, I live on that street.
Other than that, nothing to contribute to debate :)
10:52 am
It's Jimmy, the movie is Quadrophenia. Quite right, Kate. I love Americans. Easy Rider? New York? Get a fookin' clue, trailer park mongrels.
4:26 am
You are americans, therefore you do not understand the desire of the mod culture and therefore the desire to own and ride a lambretta, vespa and moped.
driving any vehical gives a chance of accedents occuring however, wearing a seatbelt always saves lifes, as does wearing a helmet.You see your artical is aload of bull,firstly you photograph of jimmy from quadrophenia is a idealic picture for all mods, or children of that era,so if you are going to insult a very important peice of brittish history get it right and dont insult our Vehical history aswell as our music, because after all, if i a mere 15 year old from north-west England can approch and debate such a small minded journalist, then maybe theres hope for us all in this world eh'
so im going to leave you with a saying from the good old town of mine, figure it out duck,, " Go kic' a bo' agen' a woe, 'it it wiv' yo' 'ed tiwll it bosses'.."