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Bajabus
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helmet law
Does anyone know if there is one in baja?
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JESSE
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Yes, but rarely enforced, a gringo might be giving a great excuse for a Mexican cop to stop him, so i would wear one of i was you.
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And it pays not to be a dumb butt and leave your wife a widow!
I've got a friend's niece from La Paz visiting and I disguised my total pleasure as I told her how it's the law and if she was gonna ride in AZ, she
must wear it. Be smart and do the same. The board wouldn't be the same without you...... - Stephanie
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Ah... good to know. Thanks Jesse, much appreciated.
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I was ticketed in San Lucas for no helmet a few years ago, went to the station and paid the fine. It was about $7.00, don't remember what the
exchange rate was then. After paying the fine I got a picture of me in front of the police station holding the ticket and the cop standing by me with
his shotgun. The photo was worth the seven bucks.
KurtG
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Anonymous
I was ticketed in San Lucas for no helmet a few years ago, went to the station and paid the fine. It was about $7.00, don't remember what the
exchange rate was then. After paying the fine I got a picture of me in front of the police station holding the ticket and the cop standing by me with
his shotgun. The photo was worth the seven bucks.
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It sure did
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Good answer Steph
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Helmet laws SUCK!!!
let those who ride decide!!
And P.S. - i wear one at times....and at times i don't, that is in states that allow an option. i think they should be mandatory for minors, but as
for adults - their choice - freedom on the road!
if you want to know what helmets can do to you (yes - wearing one can be dangerous, believe it or not!) check out A.B.A.T.E. WHICH LOBBIES HARD and
successfully to get mandatory helmet laws repealed. I'm not against the use of helmets per se, i'm against the frickin guvment telling me how to
manage myself.
freedoms are eroding people! be vigilent!
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I was also ticketed in San Felipe last year during mothers day weekend for no helmet. I followed the cop to the station to pay the $7 dollar ticket
but I only had 50 pesos in my pocket. They kept my motorcycle until I returned with the correct amount. I borrowed a few bucks from a passer by and
got my bike back. I was camping at Pete's camp so I was concerned I would get another one while ridding back from town. The cop gave me a receipt and
said don't worry just show them you already paid a ticket and are on your way back to camp.... I passed 2 more cops on the way back and they didn't
stop me. I see people ridding all over SF without helmets. I guess it is only enforced when necessary...Paul
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I was asking for a friend....I'm scared to death of motorcycles. I feel safer working with dynamite and fabricating explosives and fireworks. Anyway
here is my general opinion of helmet and seatbelt laws:
If you don't want to wear a seat belt or helmet thats fine with me but it should dis-qualify your insurance company from paying out any monies towards
medical bills. Why should my rates go up because someone likes the wind in his/her hair or is too lazy to strap in (medical exemption not
withstanding).
perhaps I'm wrong. I would appreciate seeing statistics that said otherwise.
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Bajabus
If you don't want to wear a seat belt or helmet thats fine with me but it should dis-qualify your insurance company from paying out any monies towards
medical bills. Why should my rates go up because someone likes the wind in his/her hair or is too lazy to strap in (medical exemption not
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Refusal to wear a helmet should also excuse from work the police and highway patrol, as well as the nurses and doctors who have to peel your face off
the pavement and try to replace it with a new one (all also paid for with my tax dollar).
My close friend is a Harley gal, hit face first an obstacle in town at 30 mph with one of those silly half-helmets. Coma for 90 days, 6 months in
nursing care center, 1-1/2 years in and out of surgeries. She now wears a full helmet to protect her lovely new face.
Be yourself, everyone else is already taken.
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I agree with Natalie,that helmet and seatbelt laws are for the sake of EMT's,police ,and firemen who must pick up the pieces.If our society allowed
the buzzards to do this work,then maybe your right to choose would be appropriate.
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I had a friend......
back in the early eighties. She had the most gorgeous bone structure you've ever seen on a woman - a really striking latin beauty with perfect skin
and a hot body to go with it.
Things change so quickly sometimes. One day she was at a party at my house sitting on the couch and giving a massage to her boyfriend and jokingly
saying "I wanna die young and leave behind a good looking corpse, ha ha ha".
The next weekend were the closed casket funerals for both her and her boyfriend. A couple of days after the party, they drove out of a bar without
helmets on and got hit by a truck. There was no face left on either one of them.
Mike, I haven't had a chance yet to look at the site you recommended, but I know the arguments, having had acquaintances who were anti helmet laws
over the years. But statistically, it's just like seat belt opposition. Although occasionally, a seat belt will get stuck and trap a person in a car
or break with impact and the person goes through the windshield anyway, the vast, vast, vast majority of the time, they save lives. The same goes for
motorcycle and bike helmets. It is not a fantasy of some nosey govt. agency that society benefits enough from their use to make it law. It is fact.
You can probably get the real scoop on lives saved at the CDC web site.
And to those who think that all might be equalized by not having to either make insurance companies responsible for the "stupids" out there that don't
observe the laws or not be responsible for scraping them off the pavement at all, society pays one way or the other, either in having to foot the bill
for the indigent care when the long term brain injured wind up on the public roles, or in caring for the family that person left behind.
My ex's best friend is doing his little mid- life crisis thing on the back of a Harley he bought a few months ago without a helmet. I worry every
day. He has three teenagers and a wife and family that all love him, but he's willing to risk it all for a little wind in his hair. I could just
kill him.....
....Hope he doesn't die. - Stephanie
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just remember when ever you vote to take away someone elses right to choose your flushing some of your rights away with it
perhaps we should look at the uninsured as ways of keeping our costs down?? thats where the big money is
perhaps we who have insurance should wear a big colored noose around our necks so everyone could be as uncomfortable as riding with a helmet on and
enyone driving without the noose gets a fine lol have a good one just jerry
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Don't delude yourself, Jerry.
The more crowded this world gets, the more rules are necessary to keep stupid people from screwing up everybody elses party. I like the freedom from
excessive laws I feel in Mexico just fine until I see a one year old walking up to stick his finger in a live electrical socket that nobody cares
about. I scoop him up quickly to save his life and then I have to rethink it a little. We have laws against that kind of thing in this country.
Fewer kids die from somebody elses negligence, and society benefits.
Are you against seat belt laws, even knowing they've saved tens of thousands of lives? Where do you draw the cost/benefit line as to which laws
benefit society enough to curtail people's rights? It has to be drawn somewhere, no? I've been clear about where I think the line should be. If
society has to bare the burden of someone's stupidity and that stupidity can be managed away by law, I have no problem with saving that person from
himself and all the other people that he might injure. - Stephanie
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taken to its extreme, and some of you "cradle
to grave" liberal whackjobs out there would....helmets should be worn in cars too! afterall, most road fatalities are head injuries, right?? you're
missing the point, if you get hit hard on a bike, a helmet may or may not protect your noggin, while your lower 1/2 of your body is MISSING! so what
did you gain? Life and its joy and experiences have risks people! you have to justify the ones for yourself that you want to take part in! Would a
stupid helmet save my arse if i crash my plane?? no, it wouldn't - so, should i stop recreational flying, which kills hundreds each year?? my mother
sure would be pleased if i didn't fly anymore. lets all just stay at home and watch TV, that's a super safe sport!
do what you like cause its your life to live as much as you want. that's why i said mandatory helmet laws are perhaps ok for minors, but i'd rather
their parents decided for them until they are of age. the gosh darned guvment is not my parent, although i think a few of you here would like the
guvment to be yours.....
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As I said I really don't give a rats a*s*s if someone wants to wear a helmet or not.
I just don't want to pay for it.
"Preventive war was an invention of Hitler. Frankly I would not even listen to anyone seriously that came and talked of such a thing."
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Hey you guys! Don't forget to wear a safety helmet on your other "head", too. Help prevent accidents and medical expenses.
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safety
im wondering how many ppl here speaking has ever ridden a bike with a helmet?? i have for yrs
as far as safety is conserned put limited visabilty for the operator and ones inability to hear any sound in the stats and ill think you will
find that the cure is worse then the problem
allways some good meaning fokes trying to save us from our selves
im sure glade that mexico dosnt let us vote or we would have it as messed up as the place we are all from just jerry
jerry and judi
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There is a helmet law in Baja. Whether it is enforced at all times is questionable. I know someone last year who was fined heavily for not wearing a
helmet while operating an ATV. With visitor centers in most cities in Baja, this is where you should inquire. Good luck....
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