Plugs that fucking seat belt in. I got nailed to on the way back to the shop.

Pulled over for expired tabs since I hadn't gotten new ones yet. Said I could get a speeding tick for going 36 in a 35 for what he got me on the radar for (how fucking gay is that), but he let me off of those 2 and decided to look down and notice i didn't have my lap belt on. They are really checking, no bullshit.

It's my own damn fault and now im $90 bucks in the hole. $90 fucking bucks for a seatbelt ticket. It's not worth it, buckle that shit up.

Sorry you had to be made an example of, Allan, but they aren't playing around when it comes to seatbelt enforcement.

Laugh at me for wearing my seatbelt and I'll laugh at you when you get slapped with a ticket.

My thoughts exactly.

They have also been cracking down on the car pool lane going out 394. Been there the past two days, I am sure they are looking for no seat belts too while there standing there watching the parking lot 394 is around Louisiana Ave.

He also was close to getting a ticket for driving while gay.

Bwahahaha!
My bro just got a seatbelt ticket a few weeks ago, they ARE really cracking down. And thats fine by me in my book, its just DUMB not to.
I feel naked without my belt, just doesnt feel right.
Sorry you got busted, but like you said, its your own damn fault, no one elses.

I am glad that they are starting to crack down on wearing seatbelts. I feel wierd not wearing one myslef. It just doesn't feel right. I never wore one until I was around 10yrs old and I haven't gone without since. I even wear one while riding bitch in the back of an eclipse.

My seatbelt saved my life. It's always the first thing I do when I get in my car, or any care for that matter.

damn right, my seatbelt hss kept me from eatin the wheel at least 3 times..like ive said before id like to meet the person who invented seatbelts so i could kiss them full on the lips ;)

See i can't personally stand wearing my lap belt. In any car i have ever driven I have never used one. This is my second ticket for a seat belt in my life thus far. But yeah, no excuses. It's the law and they did what they set out to do.

i totally approve of what you guys are saying - wish i starting wearing my seat belt - i just cant stand them, i know that this is very dumn and dangerous. on the other hand i will never even srtar my engine if the passengers dont have their seatblets on, but i never wear it myself

See... I don't wear my lap belt in the DSM because it feels safe enough to have th shoulder belt over my chest.... but that's just me.

In severe crashes where the lap belt wasn't in place people have been nearly decapitated by the shoulder belt. The shoulder belt alone isn't going to stop your head from bouncing off the roof or keep you from getting stuffed under the dash.

To everyone who doesn't wear a seat belt properly or at all: I am living proof that seat belts save lives, and I have the scars to prove it. Ask me sometime if you want to know more.

when i got pulled over last week i just put on the lap belt as he walked up to the car. haha.

i wana know more

-E

I'd like to hear more. When I was 16, 6 days after I got my license and my 94 mazda 626. I was going about 135 down a back road when a turn came. Long story short, the car arched about 30 feet in the air and landed in the 16th row of the cornfield on its front bumper. No major injuries. I'm positive I'd be dead if I hadn't had my seatbelt on, and so would my passengers.

Okay, here's my story. Please save the condolences and tear-jerking for another time. I will have shed enough tears by the time I finish typing this.

Cliff notes for you lazy fuckers: I was in a bad accident and survived along with my parents because we wore our seatbelts, my brother who wasn't wearing a seatbelt didn't survive.

In 1990 my family and I (parents and a younger brother, I was 10 and he was 7) were driving through Iowa on the way to my great grandma's birthday. We were in a Chevy Eurosport station wagon, I was in the left passenger seat and my brother who was feeling ill was laying in back. We almost didn't make the trip because my brother was pretty sick with the flu, but we went anyway. Driving down a 2 lane highway near Nevada, IA a lady crossed the center line and hit our car. I remember looking over my dad's shoulder as he said something and started decelerating and heading for the shoulder, I saw a car heading almost straight for us, possibly fishtailing, and I heard the gravel under the car as we were getting onto the shoulder. The other car hit us on the left side right between the two doors. My dad's window cracked and fell into the door somehow, mine shattered and hit me in the head (or my head hit it, not really sure), embedding a chunk of tempered glass in my head. Our car proceeded off the road into a very wide ditch, probably 50 feet wide to the corn field. Still traveling at close to 50mph our car flipped end over end and the front of the car was the only part to hit the ground, the rear looked new except for the broken window. Unsure how many times the car flipped, but I remember a good 3 or 4 jolts as the car bounced. The car landed upside down, dust and glass everywhere, and a cold feeling on the left side of my head. Keep in mind my age, and I asked my dad if I should open the door... He sternly said, "You can't." We unbuckled, and I fell to the roof of the car and crawled out. Stood up, looked around and touched my head, and came up with a hand covered in blood. I immediately freaked out, and then realized my brother was missing.

I was rushed to the road and cared for by my mom, and then some motorists who stopped. I remember seeing cars upon cars parked everywhere on the sides of the road... People were everywhere looking for my brother. He was eventually found a couple minutes later about 60 feet from where the car landed. He had severe head injuries and a collapsed lung. Within minutes a medical chopper had landed and I was being loaded into an ambulance. We were so near our destination that my grandparents came to the accident scene, and my grandma road with me to the hospital in the ambulance. My mom flew with my brother to Ames, and my dad rode with my grandpa. After I got stitched up and the glass removed from my head, we made it to my great grandma's party.

For the following two weeks my brother was in intensive care because of his head injuries and was in a coma. You could talk to him, hold his hand and tell him to squeeze it and he would. They did some surgery on his skull to relieve pressure on his brain, but it was to no avail. Two weeks we spent in a hospital hoping for him to pull through and he eventually was pronounced brain dead.

I'm not some sort of savior preaching the gospel, but I sure as hell don't want to lose any of you in the same sort of fashion that I lost my brother. Funerals suck, I've been to a lot of them in my 25 years, and I will never get used to it. Please, wear your seat belt.

Matt D.--
you officially convinced me to always wear my seatbelt, sad story, horrible to hear that.

i always wear one.

wow dude, just wow.. howd you deal with that. Im 20 and i was damn near cryin readin that.

Honestly, since then I've become really strong when it comes to death, especially of someone I know. My grandpa who I mentioned in the story passed away last Halloween... I've cried once since his death, and only shed a couple of tears at the funeral because my family was all crying around me.

Thanks for sharing matt, I think some people need reality checks when it comes to stuff like that.
I always wear my seatbelt, and its like fighting a damm war to get my gf to wear one..the night I blasted that deer at 80mph she again put up the 'do I have to?' face when we left the casino, but since I always win (car doesn't move until everyone is buckled up), she had to, good thing to.
I am personally glad they are cracking down on buckling up tickets, I wish they'd crack down on the drunk driving as much as they have on the street racing (if they are gonna crack down on stupidity, might as well be across the boad).

I am also with the not moving unless everyone is buckled up.

I am also with the above to guys. I love my seat belt. It saved me also in a nice accident when a girl was giving me a ride home back in the day and she ran a red light and smashed into someone else. We were going about 45. I would have no face if I didnt wear one that night.

Matt- Thanks for sharing also.

sorry if this is off topic:
but if a passenger isnt wearing there seatbelt, can you still get a ticket if your the driver and your wearing one?

Yes

Can't say for sure, but I knew of someone who got pulled over, neither driver or passenger were wearing their seat belts and both got tickets for them.

I've worn mine ever since two of my friends didn't meet us at the second bar we were going to back in 1991. Turns out they were hit head on by a drunk driver and since neither of them were wearing their seatbelts, both suffered major injuries including a shattered pelvis and leg, many broken bones and severe lacerations. Both said that had they been wearing their seatbelts, they probably would have had minor injuries.

Another story is there was just an accident last fall right in front of our church in Brooklyn Park. A car flipped over and the only person not wearing a seatbelt was thrown out of the window and killed. The other three in the car were just fine. I saw the guy covered in blood shortly before he died.