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Whatever came of yesterday's story about a body being found in a car early Monday  morning.  It was carried only here on Fox 16 and never updated.

http://www.fox16.com/news/local/story.aspx?content_id=786A920C-FAE1-47EB-AF24-55465BAD54C1

Body Found in Running Car

Posted on 7/24/2006 7:05:54 AM

Little Rock police are investigating a body found in the 3800 block of Arch street around 2:30 Monday morning.

Homicide detectives say a black male, about 35 years of age was discovered shot inside a car parked at the entrance to Interstate Park. Investigators say the vehicle was still running with its lights on when they arrived at the scene.

The victim's name has not been released. This case is not confirmed as a homicide or suicide. An investigation is underway. Stay with www.fox16.com for the very latest.

This incident turned out to be a suicide and therefore no further reporting was done. The story should have been removed from fox16.com but was not. I apologize for the oversight.

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While we are on the seat belt subject let me ask a question...........

Why is it a law to wear a seat belt in a vehicle but not a law to wear a helmet on a motorcycle?
Seems to be I would be a lot safer not wearing a seat belt in a car then not wearing a helmet on a motorcycle. 

Alot of motorcyclists argument is it is their choice....well it is our tax money scrapping your brains from the pavement which could have been prevented had they been wearing a helmet!

I find your comments interesting yet typical. You might find actual research interesting as well As a motorcycle rider, I wear a helmet for my personal reasons. Whether it offers the protection you allude to or not is questioned. Some research has shown that a helmet is effective up to only 13 MPH. This research is quoted below:

 Another requirement of FMVSS-218 (S5.4) is that a helmet provides no less than 105 degrees peripheral vision. A drivers license test requires 140 degrees peripheral vision, and a motorcyclist with only 105 degrees peripheral vision is considered to be legally blind Also, when wearing a helmet, the acute decrease in hearing would prevent a person from receiving a drivers license. Therefore, according to DMV regulations, when wearing a helmet a motorcyclist is legally deaf & blind!

Helmet's are not a safety device for motorcyclist's, and mandatory helmet laws are nothing more than a mandatory dress code with the ability to cause injury and death. But a helmet will protect a headform in a laboratory (up to 13.66 mph), unfortunately, headforms do not ride motorcycles.

Using a Newton equation' for a 170 pound rider, with deceleration of the brain being the controlling factor, the following helmet thicknesses would be required:

IMPACT VELOCITY	HELMET THICKNESS
4 MPH		1"
10 MPH		1.8"
15 MPH		4"
20 MPH		6.5"
30 MPH		15"
40 MPH		29"

Should you care to conduct your own research or verify that I quoted, here is the formula:

[1] KE	=	WH		KE	=	Kinetic
	=	1/2 w/g v2		V	=	Velocity
V	=	at		W	=	Weight
g	=	1/2 at2		H	=	Height
				g	=	Acceleration of Gravity
				t	=	Time
KE	=	1.2 w/g (at)2		a	=	distance

The foregoing is a Newton equation.

You're wasting your time, bro...I rode M/Cs for 35 years sometimes with, most times without a helmet....I still have all my brains intact, and my skin too. Some people will bellyache about anything, and always are trying to compare apples to oranges. Let's pass a law that everyone in cars, buses , airplanes, trains. boats, fourwheelers, etc. etc. all must wear helmets...then maybe they'll get the picture! If you want to try to make Motorcyclists wear seatbelts.....I'll sit here and wait on the explaination as to how, and why...open mindedly of course!! ~Denarky

I think we kidnapped this thread! What do ya think? ~Denarky