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Location: Appleton,WI | Just curious as to how many wear their seat belts while towing the boat? |
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| I think you need a "sometimes" choice even though I always wear one. |
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Location: Pelican Lake/Three Lakes Chain | I agree, with the sometimes. I am trying to make it a habit...but not always. |
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| always here in ontario. its 150 dollar fine. . if ya ever been in a bad crash, you will realize they work. |
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| Probably wouldn't be typing this today if I hadn't been sharing a lap belt with another kid when I was 12 or so. We had finished a couple day float trip down the Missouri river and were driving back home. My seatbelt didn't work and my dad made me share the seatbelt with another kid because it was rainy out. Head on collision going around a turn. So now I get a really weird feeling if I'm ever in a car without a seat belt. I also insist that everybody riding with me puts on the belt. |
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Location: Richland Center, WI. | It would be wrong for me not to wear my seatbelt. Kinda helps with my job. Also, how can you tell your kids to wear their seatbelt when Dad does not wear his! I always wear mine.
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Location: Central WI | I should wear mine alot more than I do! If I'm going out of town, I almost always wear it.......... If I'm staying local, hardly ever. Need to work on that!!!!
Edited by Legacy Lures 2/5/2009 7:58 PM
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Location: Home of the 2016 World Series Champion Cubs | Always. |
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Location: Stevens Point, WI | Not sure why someone wouldn't wear a seat belt because there towing a boat? It's always on me no matter what, boat in tow or not. |
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| I'm not sure why anyone would ask this question.
Of course, I like to think others will wear their seat belts wether they are towing or toying their boats. But, the real concern to me is whether the others checked their trailer connection, balls, lights, etc.
Sorry, but I couldn't include my answer to a question. I just don't get it.
Do I care if others are wearing seat belts....no, not really... (oh, I do)... but, I do care if they do not check their trailers for proper connections, lights, etc.
I wonder why someone would ask this question?????
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Location: SouthWest PA | Never go anywhere with out BUCKLING UP. Plus it is a STATE law here in PA. |
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| Life's too short and precious to not be wearing a seatbelt at anytime.
Just as an unconscious task, kind of like breathing....my seatbelt is always on before the vehicle is even started. :shrug: It's a no brainer.
Way too many people on the roads these days...more than ever...and a large percentage of the people on the roads these days don't have a clue how to drive in the first place. Then throw in there the fact of all the gizmos and gadgets and pieces of technology that distract drivers from their one and only task, which is driving, such as cell phones, texting, iPods, GPS, yada, yada, yada, yada...
Regardless of whether or not I'm towing a boat...I'm buckled up. I feel "nekkid" if I don't... :shrug:
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Location: Ogden, Ut | Every place but on the ramp and in the parking lot after/before launching. I usually have my kids w/ me, so we're all buckled up except in those locations.
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| Always, and if you are in my truck you will to.  |
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Location: On the water | It took me a long time to get used to wearing seatbelts
but I never go anywhere without them now!!! |
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| I learned to wear a seatbelt in the 3 seconds between when my friend spun out in his Camaro, and when my head broke the windshield and my knees broke the dashboard when we slammed into a tree.
He was lucky -- he had a nice soft steering wheel to smash into, so he didn't hit the windshield nearly as hard as I did.
Considering what I see out there on the road, and the amount of deer in the areas we fish? I couldn;t imagine anyone NOT wearing a seat belt.
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Location: Corning, Iowa | In Iowa it's clike it, or ticket. Doug |
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Location: Apple Valley | Always wear the belt!!! Only takes 1 second to buckle up.
Brian |
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Location: oswego, il | It's a law in Fib land too. Been that way for awhile. As mush driving as I do at work the odds suggest an accident at some point. Why take chances. |
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| I'm not going to say I do it all the time because I don't. But everytime I get in my truck if I remember I put it on I do it. |
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Location: Spencer, Wisconsin | Always wear the belt kinda habit for years now, with the law as tought as it is for violations not worth not wearing it. |
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| Growing up my parents never had us buckle in. When I joined the service it was mandatory. Now I feel naked without it. Sobering statistic is that you are more likely to be in an accident where you are injured or killed within 10 minutes of your own home than anywhere else. Seat belts are not only for when you take a long trip or get on an interstate. |
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Location: Kronenwetter, WI | I would think anyone with kids, or family for that matter, would owe it to them to buckle up. |
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Location: deephaven mn | Must have it on there is no other option |
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Location: Cinti. Ohio | It is the law here in Ohio. If you ever had a roll over like I did you would wear one to. I stayed put in my seat. |
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Location: Not where I want to be! | Ofcourse I wear one.
I can't beleive you would ask anyone a question like that!!
Furthermore , what's the difference if you are towing or not?
If you don't you are lacking the basic instinct to survive. What about you loved ones? |
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Location: Irvine, KY | I used to race my dad as a child to see who could get theirs on first. Looking back dad was pretty smart to make it a competition and "trick" me into wearing it lol... it worked. I still put it on first thing out of habit today, and I make anyone ridding with me wear one too. Its also a law in KY.
That being said, I do have a friend who the EMS said the only reason he lived was because he was NOT wearing a seatbelt because when his Explorer rolled over the inertia threw his head away from the pavement and into the passengers seat... Ill still risk that small chance and wear mine. |
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Location: Hayward, WI | I always wear mine - pulling the boat or not. One of my best buddies is a fireman but also goes on medical ambulance calls. He says to WEAR YOUR SEATBELT. He's seen what happens when people don't wear seatbelts, and we'll leave it at that.
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Location: Twin Cities | What does towing a boat have to do with anything?
Yes, always. |
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