Seatbelt fatalities are like 2%. Ejection fatalities are 83%. The odds are far more favorable to just wear the damn things.
These are the same people that didn’t give vaccines to their kids.
but muh freedumb snek
Tread on me daddy
I like the ones that’re combo’d with bottle openers better. Really sells the disregard for everyone involved.
The one in the picture looks like it has bottle openers on either side of the skull.
I like that its sharp enough that it would probably cause an injury eventually
And it’s a skull, cause it’s a future self portrait.
Nah you might get burnt then it’s ash. If they’re driving a cyber truck then cremation would make more sense.
Cars don’t actually make very efficient crematoriums generally, it’s pretty horrific for everyone else involved.
Anything can be a bottle opener with a bit of practice.
Just need to do more kegels.
Is that advice for men or women? The answer is yes.
yay, drunk driving and no seatbelt for a double ‘fuck myself and everyone else’ combo
Tbf even without the drinking it’s still a “… and everyone else”
Because when these dumbasses go flying through their windshield they sometimes live long enough to put a futile strain on our already fucked up heathcare system. And emergency service are not free.
a highway patrol captain gave a safety seminar at my old job, and I still remember what he said about seatbelts - after decades on the highway, working countless crash scenes, he had only had to un-buckle one dead person from a crash. All of the other dead people in crashes were not wearing theirs.
My seatbelt did save me. My work van got T-boned by a semi that blew a red light (dumb American traffic light highway intersection), and my belt saved me from getting a shifter knob added to my abdominal cavity.
Wear it, y’all.
Every Republican I personally know breaks laws like these all the time, and yet when a cop murders someone they say “they shouldn’t have broken the law”
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Screw right wing punisher dudes.
Seat belt should be used on every drive.
That said, I think it’s ridiculous police can charge and make revenue for protecting people from themselves. Education I support, hard enforcement not so much.
Seatbelts reduce the risk (chance) of accidents happening in the first place not only reduce the risk of injury in an accident. They hold the driver in place during rapid movements like trying to evade an sudden obstacle. Without the seatbelt the driver might lose control of the steering wheel.
A driver not using a seatbelt is a risk for everyone else on the road. It absolutely should be a punishable offence to drive without.
I don’t want to be hit by someone who decided they were okay becoming a projectile
Sure, let people make their own life or death decisions. This is fine until the death toll starts mounting up and then suddenly relatives and friends of the dead, who can’t fathom that the deceased was an idiot and made their own choice, suddenly start moaning that the government should be doing more to save lives etc. So laws get passed and enforced, and “freedom first” Americans start bitching that the government shouldn’t tell them what to do… thus the cycle continues.
Just wear your seatbelt. It’s not difficult or inconvenient. Save your energy to rise up about things that matter.
Also seat belts reduce the per incident medical costs of traffic accidents, thus ostensibly reducing insurance costs. In all likelihood not cus why wouldn’t they charge more, but in a rational system it would.
source (that I randomly found and skimmed admittedly):
Sshh. Just leave them be. This device will help the gene pool.
The problem comes when those laws are used arbitrarily towards one demographic and not just everyone. Any laws written to be discretionary are inherently bigoted.
Firstly, fuck the assholes who go into the whole right wing punisher bullshit. Just getting that part of this out of the way.
Secondly, wear your fucking seatbelt. It’s literally there to save your fucking life. And the lives of those around you. Just fucking do it.
But finally, there are legitimate uses for (non punisher themed, I guess) seat belt silencers. Because of her disabilities, my mom had to use one of these for most of my life. She was unable to wear the seatbelt. There are also autistic folks with doctors notes exempting them from it because of severe sensory issues. Also, have you never put a bag of groceries on the passenger seat, only to be annoyed to hell and back by the beeping?
For groceries, just buckle the seatbelt.
No, actually I don’t want right-wing assholes wearing their seat-belts. The sooner they take themselves out the better. Let them win the Darwin award.
Killing some innocent person with their body… Sweet 😑
Has that ever happened? Someone ejected from a car in a crash killed or injured someone else?
Well yes?
Classic is no seat belt in the back, children killing their parents (and dying), but there are also people flying out of the front windshield into the other frontal crashing car killing people in there.
We got laws for a reason, not just to jerk with people.
I could use one on my empty passenger seat because the sensor in the seat is defective(where it thinks there’s always a passenger) but i instead just buckle the seatbelt across the empty seat.
Yeah i was gonna say this.
I’d never drive while a passenger isn’t wearing a belt (notwithstanding the exceptions you mentioned).
However, it is kind of annoying i cant put things on the front passenger seat while I’m running errands.
Another example would be on farms. Forever getting in and out of the car for gates or what have you, feeding livestock, et cetera.
I think the punisher skull is a bit much though.
It’s hilariously ironic when people like that are repping the whole punisher iconography too because they’re the kind of people the punisher would go after.
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Wow.
imagine public transportation being an option. america is insanely car dependent
Whenever I see this logo in an obviously right-wing context I think of Big Shot. It’s almost like the character was created for these idiotic Punisher-worshipping fascists.
I’m such a tough badass, I can’t stand the feeling of a cloth strap across my chest
They yearn for the harness and are just too insecure to admit to it
Guess they’re not manly enough to just snip whatever wire is going to it.
On an tangentially related note, one thing that Georgia (the country) has taught me is to always check buckle first before pulling the belt when riding an Uber or any local taxi. Used to pull belt instinctively right away, but in there, too often have I found that, while the belt is still present, the buckle has been completely removed and the driver being visibly annoyed seeing me fumbling trying to find it. I didn’t fuss about it, though, the city traffic was so slow I didn’t feel unsafe without one, the road police was non-existent(=no fines), and it’s not really my business as a tourist to tell locals how to drive.
Wouldn’t snipping the wire permanently open the circuit and therefore permanently sound the alarm when the ignition key is inserted?
Mighty need punisher themed chopsticks to puncture your eardrums with.
Yeah you generally want to short the wire, not snip it.
Complete with bottle opener! Now you can drive drunk without that annoying chime to remind you to put your seatbelt on!
That was the first thing I noticed. It looks like a bad design for plausible deniability; i feel like you’d have to eject it to open your beer while driving.
Surprised it doesn’t come wrapped in Paracord, with a knife and a window breaker. Full tactical seatbelt avoidance.
My Subaru could use that for literally anything placed on the passenger seat. Putting your cellphone on the seat will likely set off the dinging.
This is literally the only valid reason for such a product, and unfortunately is also the loophole most vendors use in order for these to be legal to sell.
Mine too. There was a recall years ago for that issue on my model but I didn’t take it in as I hadn’t developed the problem yet. Yesterday my water bottle set it off. I mostly ride with the passenger seatbelt buckled now.
I’ve found a good smack tends to get the sensors to calm down.
I hadn’t thought of that but you’re right! I tend to place my arm on the passenger seat while driving and it sometimes sets off the alarm if anything is sitting on the seat.
But that could be fixed with a spare buckle. This product is awful in many ways.
It must be a punisher logo. Of course.
Sometimes I feel like I should get in on the grift. I couldn’t bring myself to sell an anti-safety device in good conscience, but there’s bound to be a ton of pointless shit I can stick a skull on and sell this crowd.
Unfortunately the punisher logo looks kinda cool. But when I see it everywgere I have the feeling I’m dealing with a right wing lunatic.
See it depends on the target audience. Any antisafety device that targets cops is a safety device for the general public; every cop that exits through the front of the car is dozens of minorities not harassed or fed into the prison-industrial complex.
That’s why China should make 200,000 watt electric bikes, no ABS, no TC except on takeoff, lithium battery and center of gravity located just below the rider’s balls, and offer a 95% active duty US and IDF servicemen discount. It comes in 3 colors, olive drab flag, gun metal and grey flag, and flag.
President Xi, I know you’re reading this, I have other great ideas too.
It’s pretty obvious this one in particular is for idiots, but my car’s detect person sensor is so sensitive that it goes off when I have towels in the backseat. My solution was to leave the seatbelts plugged in all the time, but a decorative seatbelt silencer might have been nice. The plugged in seatbelt interferes with the middle seat drop down cupholder, so anytime I have a passenger with a cup we all have to deal with the alarm if they don’t put the seatbelt back in after lowering the cupholder.
Maybe a rainbow one or something. Make it obvious so it doesn’t get lost in a sea of black carpets.
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I did a quick google search, and they’re all “rawr I’m masculine and drink a lot” with a dash of ai-generated “this is safer because beeping is distracting please buy my stuff” articles. Nothing with rainbows. Almost all of them include a bottle opener but default, including the CAT and other ATV/construction equipment style ones. Not worth the effort to support that type of market.
Blame Chris Kyle for introducing the idea of Punisher skulls as their Navy SEAL unofficial emblem.
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