The World According to Duncan

Laws that just don't make sense!

Some of our laws here in Indianapolis just don't make a bit of sense. Am I the only one that doesn't get it?

Lets take our seat belt laws for instance. When driving in my car, I must were a seatbelt, my children must be either in a seat belt or special seat. If caught without this, I recieve a ticket and a hefty little fine to go along with it. But yet, I can drive a motorcycle, no helmet, and can have my kid on the back and not recieve one of those hefty little fines. Not to mention, my grandkids ride a school bus, to and from school, that does not have seat belts. Does that mean that if the vehicle is owned by the city, my children don't have to be protected? Their bus driver wears a seat belt though. Make sense?

And lets talk about those annoying little scooters that are on the road today. If I want to have a motorcycle, I have to get a special liscense, and take a driving test. Not to mention you have to be at least 16 to have a drivers liscense. But, I can buy one of those scooters, drive them on any street, not be liscensed and best of all, I don't have to be a certain age. My 9 year old grandson could drive one of them. (That won't happen!) Make sense?

These are just two things right off the top of my head that just don't make any sense to me what so ever. I am sure there are many more. And I am sure I will think of them at some point. But for right now, I just want to know "WHY?" Where's the reasoning?

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