Thus spake Tegger <invalid@invalid.inv> :

>JRStern <JRStern@foobar.invalid> wrote in
>news:lemjd5d2fcg1o3gbdbtpe19q3bp4e1pvtl@4ax.com :
>
>> On Fri, 16 Oct 2009 02:48:44 +0000 (UTC), Tegger <invalid@invalid.inv>
>> wrote:
>>
>>>blythe b <mbowman155@gmail.com> wrote in news:8e13a836-cfb6-4fb4-a6c0-
>>>24e9291e3b81@l2g2000yqd.googlegroups.com:
>>>
>>>> http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/07/31/hon...all/index.html
>>>
>>>
>>>The USA remains the only country in the world that has a wacky legal
>>>requirement that bombs be installed in car's interior, aimed directly
>>>at the occupants. Then they require that big yellow labels be stuck
>>>everywhere, warning you that the bombs will kill your kids so make
>>>sure you put the little dears where the bombs can't reach them.
>>>Sheesh.
>>
>> what he said
>>
>>
>>>For those of you in Canada, bomb disablement is quite legal, and is
>>>available at any garage for about $40 (don't know if that's per bomb
>>>or an all-in price).
>>
>> must be all those conscientious objectors we sent them!
>>
>
>
>I was told that insurance companies up here have mixed feelings about
>airbags. Bags are very expensive to replace after a collision, and there's
>often collateral damage when the bags break windshields and damage
>interiors, plus they cause a lot of minor (and sometimes not so minor)
>injuries when they deploy. All that's very expensive for the insurance
>companies.

My wife's low speed accident resulted in some surprising structural
damage, but a goodly chunk went to replacing the bags, seatbelts,
pretnesioners and front windshield, which was totalled on the pax side
but not the driver's side, which the body shop said is quite typical
of airbag deployment.

Technically, you're supposed to replace the bags every ten years.
Yeah, sure. If you've done so, please leave a twenty under your front
door mat. I'll be by tomorrow to replace it with two tens.

>
>Up here there are neither rewards for having airbags nor penalties for
>disabling them.
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- dillon I am not invalid

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