Click it or ticket commercial, what a complete joke

[RB TexLa]

the announcer saying that police are writing seatbelt tickets "to save lives." They are writing the tickets because the auto insurance companies are giving equipment prizes to police departments that write the most tickets or have the biggest increase in seatbelt tickets. The announcer should say "they are writing tickets to save the insurance companies money."

But it is pretty funny the way it is, maybe that is what they were going for.

[MissB]

1. Less death = less payout by insurance company.

Cops should in general write more tickets for not wearing a seatbelt.

[MichaelHarris]

2. So

they really don't save lives?

[HysteryDiagnosis]

3. Is there any data showing that 5 to 10 mph over the limit is

the root cause of most if not all traffic accidents?? Or is it cell phones, PDA's, Big Macs and make up?

[Gregorian]

4. And how many die from tobacco related disease each year? Half a million?

Get real!

I'm sick of our confused priorities.

[DS1]

5. On what do you base the claim that insurance companies are giving out prizes?

[RC]

8. Because this is not the first time.

[DS1]

19. Ok, so it's not the first time

Do you have proof of a first time? Of proof of a second time?

You made the claim that the click-it-or-ticket program was run by the insurance companies, and I'm wondering where you got that information.

It's a pretty serious charge!

[yella_dawg]

6. Not a joke.

The message is "Be Afraid, Be Very Afraid. Big Brother is Watching." Works for me.

[emilyg]

7. if you enjoy living

click-it.

[Ediacara]

9. Because seat belts don't save lives and cops have no sense of humanity

:eyes:

[OffWithTheirHeads]

10. Just another "be afraid" moment

fostered by those who are above the law. Be afraid of government. If we catch you not listening to nanny, we will make your life more miserable than it already is and fill our coffers with your paycheck. Oh by the way, those guys who steal your identity or poison your pet food, we can't be bothered to regulate them cause regulation is bad.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

11. Yeah, those damn pig pull you over for drunk driving too.

Fucking cops, trying to save car and life insurance companies money...

Fucking police state is what it is...

[RB TexLa]

12. I haven't heard of many drivers killing others because of not having a seatbelt on

[Breeze54]

13. They kill their passengers when they are the drivers.

:shrug:

When the passengers don't wear seatbelts.

[RB TexLa]

14. sorry, didn't realize different poster

[Breeze54]

15. It's in the message-> When the passengers don't wear seatbelts.

[RB TexLa]

16. the person I responded to compared not wearing a seatbelt to driving drunk

one only endangers yourself (if you are a driver or passenger) by your own choice, driving drunk endangers others. They are very different.

My fault, thought you were the other poster saying that others could be injured by not wearing a seatbelt.

[SheilaT]

22. And if you leave behind

family -- spouse or kids, then the only one impacted is still you? How about the 16 year old who drives too fast in a car with three other teens, loses control of the car and they're all ejected and killed? Oh, yeah, it doesn't affect others.

The thing is, just because some idiots drive drunk, or other idiots smoke, and still others eat way too much, doesn't mean that we shouldn't all wear seat belts. Besides, you never know when some idiot whose drunk or talking on a cell phone or whatever won't crash into you.

Worse than being killed probably, is winding up paralyzed or brain damaged.

I have a good friend who refuses to wear a seat belt and the argument that it saves lives is absolutely meaningless to her, and I just don't understand why. I can't get her to see that her only son would be heartbroken if she were killed. If she wound up in a coma for months he'd have to drop out of college. Nope. None of that matters to her, just that she won't by god, be told what to do by some stupid nanny police state. I wish there were a hospital ward, the equivalent of a cancer ward, so she, and everyone else who won't buckle up could see what they are risking.

[Breeze54]

18. That's ok.....

;)

:hi:

[DemGa]

17. Well I guess motorcycles should just be illegal then

We might hurt ourselves.

[NaturalHigh]

20. I'm sick of that commercial.

Bring back the monkeys in the Career Builder commercials. You can't go wrong with monkeys.

[Oeditpus Rex]

21. I can't imagine why they need these campaigns

What kind of ultra-idiot doesn't use a seat belt? :shrug:

[RB TexLa]

23. At least one place still allows freedom

and "allows" people to chose how much concern they have for their safety.

http://www.contracostatimes.com/ci_5975625?source=rss

BOSTON -- An effort to end New Hampshire's status as the only state in the country without a law requiring adults to wear seat belts suffered a setback Wednesday when the state Senate transportation committee recommended that it not pass.

[dysfunctional press]

24. insurance companies don't like motorcycle helmet laws, either...

a dead biker is cheaper than an injured one.