[Fenton]

Sticker theft on the rise in MI., news at 11.

 

[The_AirHawk]

Yes. At $100/year it's MUCH cheaper than simply buying a helmet.



And better still - the State gets that money so they can turn it into $10-worth of socialist services to be used at a trailer-park of your choice............

 

[testcase]

Mmmm.. I likes me some of them trailer park girls.. Theys the kinkiest!

 

[BrowningBAR]

Michigan is about two steps away from being a third world country. The budget is completely screwed, unemployment is awful and business is leaving by the truck load.



Truly the worst run state in the nation.

 

[Buzglyd]

Yeah but they've got those great union wages!

 

[longride]

Doesn't matter. They have a helmet law, so everyone is safe and will never die there.

 

[BrowningBAR]

And politicians that are remarkably dumber than the average dumb politician.

 

[fumanchu]

pointless rambling commencing in 3...2...1... go pointless rambling:

interesting article. i wear a helmet 99% of the time, but i'm still glad that my US residence is in florida - giving me the choice. should FL, however, end up reinstalling its mandatory helmet laws of yesteryear, i would obey them - though i'd appreciate having a workaround like this sticker proposal (interesting as it may be) to allow me to take a 20mph mosey down the street for some ice cream, sans brain bucket.

that said, i have to go dark for a few weeks - recurrent surgical learning till the end of june (breast reconstruction, *sigh*). till then, you MOniacs take care and ride safe

fümänchü

 

[58876]

I might be moving there for my job. Me a retard.

 

[BrowningBAR]

I wish you luck and hope it works out, but I have a few friends living there. Everyone is trying to get out as fast as possible.



Besides, aren't you Seattle based right now? Michigan will depress the hell out of you. I grew up in and hate South Florida, but I would rather live in FL and Michigan.



The winters are also brutal.

 

[Buzglyd]

So the state can start enacting laws banning or requiring certain behaviors then allow citizens to circumvent the law with a large enough cash payment?



Does anyone else see this as the tip of the iceberg?

 

[BrowningBAR]

NAMBLA must be pretty stoked to hear this.

 

[longride]

Isn't that how it's always worked in DC?

 

[BrowningBAR]

If I recall, it has also been proven to work in Chicago.



Think of Chicago as the Minor League to DC.

 

[58876]

I'm in Seattle, telecommuting to Michigan. I'm working in a startup that's just starting out, and things are picking up, I'm going to start needing to hire people, and it's tough to do development management remotely. Nothing is for certain though.



On the plus side real-estate is cheap as hell there.

 

[seruzawa]

Really. What's someone from Chicago got to say about anyone else?



Elwood: It's 106 miles to Chicago, we got a full tanks of gas, half a pack of cigarettes, it's dark and we're wearing sunglasses.



Jake: Hit it.

 

[12217]

Keep in mind that you're calling that a plus BEFORE you've bought. Once you're here and paying taxes, things may look different.



Of course, you might snag a nice lakefront cottage that hasn't yet been pancaked so a 6,000 sf McMansion can go up in its place...

 

[BrowningBAR]

What do you want for nothing? A rubber bisquit?

 

[Buzglyd]

No the pols in DC just exempt themselves from the law right from the start.

 

[57335]

Must be something in the water, because this sounds like a BAAAAAD precedence!