# Dumb Non-Helmet Wearing Motorcycle Protester Dumb, Dead **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [July 5, 2011, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumb-non-helmet-wearing-motorcycle-protester-dumb-dead/587875 "2011-07-05T04:02:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![bup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6bbea6/32.png) [@bup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bup)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2011, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumb-non-helmet-wearing-motorcycle-protester-dumb-dead/587875/1 "2011-07-05T04:02:11Z")
A cyclist taking part in a demonstration for the worst acronymed group ever, ABATE (American Bikers Aimed Toward Education :rolleyes:), to protest required-helmet laws, [skidded, vaulted over his handlebars, and died because his non-helmeted head got smushed.](http://www.cnn.com/2011/US/07/04/new.york.motorcyclist.death/index.html?hpt=hp_p1&iref=NS1) Ha ha! ---
**Author:** ![SoulFrost](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f07891/32.png) [@SoulFrost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SoulFrost)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2011, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumb-non-helmet-wearing-motorcycle-protester-dumb-dead/587875/2 "2011-07-05T04:05:04Z")
Doesn’t ABATE stand for American Bikers Against Totalitarian Enactments? ETA: Ah… it seems that it can stand for [a bunch of things](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ABATE#ABATE). ---
**Author:** ![mhendo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mhendo/32/3159_2.png) [@mhendo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mhendo)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2011, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumb-non-helmet-wearing-motorcycle-protester-dumb-dead/587875/3 "2011-07-05T04:44:11Z")
[A day late](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=614885) ---
**Author:** ![Rachellelogram](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rachellelogram/32/8689_2.png) [@Rachellelogram](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rachellelogram)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2011, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumb-non-helmet-wearing-motorcycle-protester-dumb-dead/587875/4 "2011-07-06T15:27:19Z")
And a dollar short? People who die this way (traumatic brain injury immediately upon impact) actually end up saving lots of healthcare $$ that would otherwise be devoted to prolonging their life/end-of-life care during old age. More power to him. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Surb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ce73a5/32.png) [@The\_Surb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Surb)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2011, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumb-non-helmet-wearing-motorcycle-protester-dumb-dead/587875/5 "2011-07-06T15:34:15Z")
You are correct! This is really fucking funny. Anytime a long-haired greasy biker dies it’s fucking hilarious. Here’s another thigh-slapper for you funny people out there: [a doctor and his daughter died while hiking](http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2010811/Bodies-missing-doctor-daughter-wilderness.html?ito=feeds-newsxml)!. See how fucking funny this is? They died while **exercising**. Hi-fucking-larious! I hope no one here dies from laughing too much! Ha!Ha! ---
**Author:** ![fumster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e9c0ed/32.png) [@fumster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fumster)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2011, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumb-non-helmet-wearing-motorcycle-protester-dumb-dead/587875/6 "2011-07-06T15:40:44Z")
> [@The\_Surb](#): > > You are correct! This is really fucking funny. Anytime a long-haired greasy biker dies it’s fucking hilarious. > > Here’s another thigh-slapper for you funny people out there: [a doctor and his daughter died while hiking](http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2010811/Bodies-missing-doctor-daughter-wilderness.html?ito=feeds-newsxml)!. See how fucking funny this is? They died while **exercising**. Hi-fucking-larious! > > I hope no one here dies from laughing too much! Ha!Ha! And the irony is it was a hike against safe hiking!! Well I assume it is, I’m too lazy to read the article. But it must be or it wouldn’t have made any sense to conflate the two. ---
**Author:** ![Mince](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecd19e/32.png) [@Mince](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mince)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2011, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumb-non-helmet-wearing-motorcycle-protester-dumb-dead/587875/7 "2011-07-06T15:41:59Z")
> [@](#): > > Makana is said to have loved going hiking with her father So much, she died for it. You’re right, that is pretty fucking funny. ---
**Author:** ![D\_Odds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/d_odds/32/2882_2.png) [@D\_Odds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D_Odds)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2011, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumb-non-helmet-wearing-motorcycle-protester-dumb-dead/587875/8 "2011-07-06T15:45:39Z")
> [@John Donne from Meditation XVII](#): > > No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friend’s or of thine own were: any man’s death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind, and therefore never send to know for whom the bells tolls; it tolls for thee. I personally don’t agree with this. People die all the time and I am not diminished. I wish I was, I could use the weight loss. Hell, several people probably died during typing this out and I didn’t lose an ounce. All deaths are the inevitable outcome of being born. Some deaths are comic. Some are kharmic. Some are tragic. And some, like the biker, are ironic. While I won’t point and laugh (to hopefully stave off kharma by dying while doing something foolish), this is quite the ironic death. ---
**Author:** ![billfish678](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@billfish678](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billfish678)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2011, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumb-non-helmet-wearing-motorcycle-protester-dumb-dead/587875/9 "2011-07-06T16:00:49Z")
> [@D\_Odds](#): > > I personally don’t agree with this. People die all the time and I am not diminished. I wish I was, I could use the weight loss. Hell, several people probably died during typing this out and I didn’t lose an ounce. I blame that on your amazingly slow karmic metabolism. I, on the otherhand can just read a news headline about some tragedy and the pounds just melt off. ---
**Author:** ![Gangster\_Octopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a8b319/32.png) [@Gangster\_Octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gangster_Octopus)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2011, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumb-non-helmet-wearing-motorcycle-protester-dumb-dead/587875/10 "2011-07-06T16:10:37Z")
Whether it is funny or deserved or whatever can be debated, but it is without a doubt very ironic. ---
**Author:** ![Cheesesteak](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cheesesteak/32/3694_2.png) [@Cheesesteak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cheesesteak)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2011, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumb-non-helmet-wearing-motorcycle-protester-dumb-dead/587875/11 "2011-07-06T16:28:28Z")
> [@Gangster\_Octopus](#): > > but it is without a doubt very ironic. Like having ten thousand spoons when all you need is a DOT certified helmet. ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2011, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumb-non-helmet-wearing-motorcycle-protester-dumb-dead/587875/12 "2011-07-06T16:46:22Z")
> [@sh1bu1](#): > > And the irony is it was a hike against safe hiking!! Well I assume it is, I’m too lazy to read the article. But it must be or it wouldn’t have made any sense to conflate the two. I haven’t read it either. Did they die while hiking barefoot through rattlesnake country, or were they mauled to death while hiking in the nude after smearing themselves with grizzly bear bait? (Not sure which “rights group” they belonged to…) ---
**Author:** ![billfish678](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@billfish678](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billfish678)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2011, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumb-non-helmet-wearing-motorcycle-protester-dumb-dead/587875/13 "2011-07-06T16:54:32Z")
> [@VinylTurnip](#): > > (Not sure which “rights group” they belonged to…) I think they were part of the Free Toes coalition. ---
**Author:** ![omni-not](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8dc957/32.png) [@omni-not](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/omni-not)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2011, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumb-non-helmet-wearing-motorcycle-protester-dumb-dead/587875/14 "2011-07-06T17:08:25Z")
> [@bup](#): > > A cyclist taking part in a demonstration for the worst acronymed group ever, ABATE (American Bikers Aimed Toward Education :rolleyes:), to protest required-helmet laws, [skidded, vaulted over his handlebars, and died because his non-helmeted head got smushed.](http://www.cnn.com/2011/US/07/04/new.york.motorcyclist.death/index.html?hpt=hp_p1&iref=NS1) > > Ha ha! Yes, karma sometimes IS a bitch, ain’t it? ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2011, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumb-non-helmet-wearing-motorcycle-protester-dumb-dead/587875/15 "2011-07-06T17:19:38Z")
\*\*\*Helmet Laws Suck! \*\*\*But not as much as having your brain power-washed off the asphalt. This message brought to you by **A** ccident-prone **B** icyclists **A** verse to **T** repanation and **E** nfeeblement. ---
**Author:** ![Enderw24](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ba9def/32.png) [@Enderw24](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enderw24)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2011, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumb-non-helmet-wearing-motorcycle-protester-dumb-dead/587875/16 "2011-07-06T17:37:21Z")
> [@The\_Surb](#): > > You are correct! This is really fucking funny. Anytime a long-haired greasy biker dies it’s fucking hilarious. > > Here’s another thigh-slapper for you funny people out there: [a doctor and his daughter died while hiking](http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2010811/Bodies-missing-doctor-daughter-wilderness.html?ito=feeds-newsxml)!. See how fucking funny this is? They died while **exercising**. Hi-fucking-larious! > > I hope no one here dies from laughing too much! Ha!Ha! [That’s not funny. My brother died that way!](http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&cd=1&ved=0CBUQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.theonion.com%2Farticles%2Fthats-not-funny-my-brother-died-that-way%2C10921%2F&ei=Bp0UTrm3I5PUgAeHr6X-BA&usg=AFQjCNGItriATqRMF1uTo4xCu19GjB2n7A) ---
**Author:** ![D\_Odds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/d_odds/32/2882_2.png) [@D\_Odds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D_Odds)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2011, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumb-non-helmet-wearing-motorcycle-protester-dumb-dead/587875/17 "2011-07-07T01:55:22Z")
> [@billfish678](#): > > I blame that on your amazingly slow karmic metabolism. > > I, on the otherhand can just read a news headline about some tragedy and the pounds just melt off. Darn you. Some people get all the genetic luck.