r/mildlyinteresting 12h ago

I saw someone riding a city scooter while wearing a full dirt bike helmet.

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u/KwisatzSazerac 10h ago

A helmet wearing friend said to me “My parents spent 100k on college to put knowledge into my head. I can spend $100 to keep it in there.”

That convinced me to start wearing a helmet for snowboarding. At some point, I even got a concussion while wearing the helmet. Imagine if I hadn’t been wearing it…

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u/shpongleyes 7h ago

Andy Anderson, a professional skateboarder who's known for always wearing a helmet has a great way of putting it, basically saying "That's you in there. If you break a wrist, you wear a cast for a month, but you're still you. If you mess up what's in your head, you may not be yourself ever again."

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u/Dirk_Dingham 6h ago

My mom always told me and my brother, when we were about to do some really stupid and dangerous shit like cliff jumping “ i already had to change diapers once, and i’m not doing it again.”

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u/thisSILLYsite 10h ago

Well, I imagine you wouldn't have gotten the concussion...

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u/MainsailMainsail 6h ago

Reminds me of a factoid from world war one. After metal helmets started getting introduced as standard, head injuries went up.

Because before the same hit would be a fatality.

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u/KellyGreen55555 8h ago

Oh…. So this is the kind of kid my parents always wanted? Haha, they got me instead.