Wear Your Goddamned Seatbelt

"PS9" (PS9)
05/24/2016 at 17:56 • Filed to: None

Someone died on the turnpike today. I use this road to get to and from work everyday. Out of the 4 or so people in that car which included a child, ONLY ONE WAS WEARING A SEATBELT. WTF!!

Wear your goddamned seatbelt. Be comfortable when your at home. Don’t put your life at risk just to flip your finger up at ‘the man’ or whatever BS you got from clicking that button. Think of your fellow passengers. Don’t turn yourself into a projectile during a crash. WEAR. THE. BELT.

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DISCUSSION (18)

Takuro Spirit > PS9
05/24/2016 at 18:00

Trailblazer blew a tire and flipped. Back seat likely unbelted passenger died.

http://fox6now.com/2016/05/23/tra…

ttyymmnn > PS9
05/24/2016 at 18:01

Embrace life.

Textured Soy Protein > PS9
05/24/2016 at 18:04

The state of Wisconsin has been using Donald Driver, retired Green Bay Packer, in their “wear your seat belt” commercials since before he retired.

I am reminded of this because for some reason they decided that the audio of this clip, with a little scene-establishing voiceover, would make an acceptable radio ad, and it keeps getting played over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over again on my Pandora, because I’m in Wisconsin.

(Pandora ads are most effective on people like me who listen to Pandora for a couple hours at a time at the gym because it beats the same ad into your skull through repetition. I bought my fiancee’s engagement ring at a local jewelry store that had particularly repetitive Pandora ads, partly because of the ads.)

4muddyfeet - bare knuckle with an EZ30 > PS9
05/24/2016 at 18:07

This is like the most basic shit. I don't move until people in my car are belted up.

JQJ213- Now With An Extra Cylinder! > PS9
05/24/2016 at 18:10

I couldn’t imagine not wearing mine anymore. It’s just second nature. I get in, buckle up, then close the door and start it. I couldn’t imagine not going without it anymore.

My citroen won't start > PS9
05/24/2016 at 18:12

That is one awfully written news report.

“The troopers said" (x10)

Berang > PS9
05/24/2016 at 18:16

People really have no appreciation for the speed they’re traveling at. If you do, you wear your seatbelt.

Particularly sad in this instance is that the dead person was probably a parent. Way to take care of your family.

Honeybunchesofgoats > PS9
05/24/2016 at 18:30

I honestly don’t get not wearing your seatbelt. I’m so used to it that I feel uncomfortable just sitting in a parked car without it on.

But then, I also don’t get finding them uncomfortable. I love feeling safely restrained in my seat. Hell, I want a seatbelt on my office chair. It’s like a thunder shirt for people.

Honeybunchesofgoats > Honeybunchesofgoats
05/24/2016 at 18:32

Plus when you throw your car into a turn and it locks the seatbelt down, it’s like your car is hugging you and saying “I love you even more when you drive like this.”

Chasaboo > PS9
05/24/2016 at 18:33

I’ve met people from Pennsylvania, and there’s a reason Robert E. Lee invaded expecting Southern sympathizers.

Urambo Tauro > JQJ213- Now With An Extra Cylinder!
05/24/2016 at 18:44

Same here. Sometimes I even buckle up accidentally when moving from one end of a shopping plaza to the other. It’s a reflex that happens when I sit down.

Urambo Tauro > ttyymmnn
05/24/2016 at 18:47

Best seat belt advisory ad ever.

(How’d it get so dusty in here...?)

ttyymmnn > Urambo Tauro
05/24/2016 at 19:01

Best by far.

E92M3 > PS9
05/24/2016 at 19:01

So inconsiderate! When your accident becomes an uneccesary fatality it screws up traffic for 100's of thousands of other people for 5 times as long. We can’t even give you evil stares cause you’re dead.

jimz > PS9
05/24/2016 at 19:14

my dad had a combo diabetic/cardiac episode while driving and hit a utility pole at about 45 mph. no seatbelt. the only things which kept him from being ejected were 1) the fact that he hit the pole in a “glancing” blow (think “IIHS small overlap”) and 2) the airbag. as it was he did hit the windshield and put a nice spider crack in it. Had he hit the pole more square he’d have been out of there.

1111111111111111111111 > PS9
05/24/2016 at 19:24

Seriously. I like the way my belt feels. It’s a security blanket of sorts.

NotUnlessRoundIsFunny > PS9
05/24/2016 at 20:02

Amen to that!

Santiago of Escuderia Boricua > PS9
05/24/2016 at 22:03

Yeah. I work in seat belts right now. Shit is crazy. We put so much work into making them comfortable too.