Seat Belt Use on TV

My neighbor, a former NYC cop refuses to wear a seat belt. He buckles it behind him.
Is this a case of "Do as I say, not as I do" ?

 

My father puts on the lap belt, but puts the shoulder strap under his arm. Without the seat belt minder, he would likely still not use a one.

 

Driving without can lead to an on the spot fine in UK.

 

Same in some states. The rest fine if pulled over for something else. I think it's New Hampshire that is the only state that doesn't enforce seat belt use.

 

They're not really, but more and more states are getting to be 'revenue challenged' so I suspect that Hew Hampshah might be writing them before too long.

LEOs (cops) hate seat belts for lots of reasons that probably are not apparent to the average driver.
If you've ever driven a vehicle with all of the stuff that they have to wear you'd understand, and of course there's the whole having to get out of the car...and other things that make seat belt use less than ideal.
Car crashes are the number one cause of LEO deaths - so some departments that are run by people who polish chairs for a living are adopting policies to entice LEOs to buckle up.

I don't have any problem with people not buckling up on TV or in real life - especially if they have not yet reproduced.
It's one of the many MANY shortcomings I will have to give an accounting for later but....
Car crashes are also a major source of donated organs.

 

Donors are what the ED hospitals here call motorcyclists!

 

Yes....we call them donorcycles here.

No seat belt use on or off of TV, although the same principles apply with helmets, gloves, jacket, etc.
People in the riding community call it ATGATT - or All The Gear, All The Time.
However (comma!) in this land of individual freedoms there are states where adults are free to ride without the skid-lid.

Personally?
I don't have a problem with adults who make the decision to forego safety gear, but only in a world where society is absolved of the urgency to treat their injuries.

In a world where even Sunday sports are overly politicized.....we'll probably just have to acknowledge that it's smarter to roll belted-in or lidded and leave it at that....

Movies?
TV?

I watch little enough of each, and I'm pretty sure that I'm fresh out of rats to give about smoking, belted drivers, etc...

 

I gaf when people do stupid things like text and drive that can cause me to become a donor.

There are many who managed to get driver's licenses that aren't coordinated enough to breathe and talk at the same time.

How that happened is beyond me, but that's Texas, top of the list of the insurance industry's worst drivers' list.

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Yup, that and not knowing where the nearside (side nearest the kerb) of there car is and almost sideswipe my car they gave obstacles so much clearance!!!

 

You rabid Anglophile, you!

 

Would you rather he be an Anglophobe?

 

He'd have to join the line, obviously.

 

…and I'm wondering how many times the buckled-up seat belt has saved his life? About the same number of times lives have been saved by those T-shirts with the seat-belt design printed boldly across the chest! …remember those? (Darwin was on to something, I think!)

 

…so does that exemption include Newton's Laws of Motion I wonder?

 

In the 1960s Batman and Robin always buckled up.