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Saturday, November 21, 2009 at 11:30AM
Reader Comments (7)
Fabulous!
Nice helmets too - is this not the epitome of "Disarming"?
What a disturbing video. It seems based on two faulty assumptions:
1) Anyone would welcome a hug from a policeman (or other total stranger)! Telling that they didn't show the cops trying to hug a woman. I'd tell them to eff right off.
2) The government is your friend! Politicians and their agents in the street just want what is best for you. Once you realize this, you will happily forfeit your birthright to do what you like with your own body.
What a creepy minute and seven seconds that was.
Jackie, that's a pretty cynical view. Is it about the police and government trying to be your friend, or is it more about the police picking less brains off the road each week, informing less next of kin about accidents and the government improving their own accident (or whatever) stats?
I wouldn't view this as 'them' being altruistic. From the little information I can get from the video, it seems like a good, sensible initiative (and they are pretty nice helmets too, Rob!).
It made me cry!
The hug was surely optional.
Deeply creepy. If I do not want to wear a helmet, which I actually think is most unwise (as is taking to the streets in anything less robust than a car frankly... i.e. riding a bike in an urban environment), but it is *my* brains I am putting at risk and I do not want some paternalistic representative of the state showing how much they 'care' by trying to hug me. Yuck.
Like Jackie, I would be inviting them to eff off and suggesting to them that they might be better employed chasing real criminals and not reminding me that the state views my body as their property.
Perry & Jackie you really have got a twisted view of this...
I am sure that you are happy when the state comes to pick you up in an Ambulance when you are of need of one... at that point you don't ask them to keep their hand off your property!
Giving people free helmets and a hug is hardly malicious or devious behaviour by any "agent", be it state or personal.