I do apologize for forgetting to send out a notice before I was on hiatus. Bad Comtesse! I did stumble across some morbid goodies while I was away and I’ll be sharing them in due time. In the meantime, however, please enjoy…
Today’s Ironic Yet Truly Morbid Fact!
Police say a motorcyclist participating in a protest ride against helmet laws in upstate New York died after he flipped over the bike’s handlebars and hit his head on the pavement. The accident happened Saturday afternoon (July 2, 2011) in the town of Onondaga, in central New York near Syracuse. 55-year-old Philip A. Contos of Parish, N.Y., was driving a 1983 Harley Davidson with a group of bikers who were protesting helmet laws by not wearing helmets. Contos hit his brakes and the motorcycle fishtailed. The bike spun out of control, and Contos toppled over the handlebars. He was pronounced dead at a hospital. Contos would have likely survived if he had been wearing a helmet.
Culled from: The Huffington Post
Generously submitted by: Lady Morgana
Lead by example.
Sure took the piss out of that protest, didn’t he? Kinda like the lady featured in a MFDJ years ago who was protesting a ban on base-jumping at some natural wonder site and died in a fall.
I love irony!
So do I. Poetic justice, pots calling kettles black, tailor-made revenge, you name it, I like it.
If the nanny-state had its way in all things, these numbskulls would still be among us…
Is it better to live in a land populated by the multitudinous safe (and stupid) or the (relatively) few and free?
In 2004 an anti-seat belt protester (and noted college repubican) at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln was on his way back from a trip down I-80 when the SUV he was riding in hit a slick patch, rolled and he was thrown from the truck and killed. The driver and another passanger were both wearing their seat belts and survived. Tragic, but at least the is one less GOP voter polluting our government. You can read about it here:
http://www.snopes.com/autos/accident/seatbelt.asp