Our listeners offering their thoughts via social media on a newly-minded bylaw. “Josh’s Law” was passed last night and stipulates that skateboarders in Saint John wear helmets.
Beca Steeves says “This is the most stupid thing since they made helmets mandatory for bike riders! All it is doing is teaching kids not to have common sense! Grow up people and stop making laws to protect idiots.”
According to Wendy & Dwayne Lindsay “It’s the parents that are going to get stuck paying the fine for the underage skaters.The citypPolice have enough on their plates with real crime.”
While Murray Goguen has a theory: “The Government wants money ’cause they wasted over 5.2 million dollars on an oversized police station we don’t even need.”
Skateboarder Andre Veinot argues “Skateboarders fall down a dozen times a day. We are very good at it. 90% of falls do not even hurt. Falling becomes just as much of a skill as landing the tricks themselves.”
But Eric Bailey says: ” You think you have the right to not wear it….but I wish I had the right to not pay into healthcare for acts of Darwinism.”‘
The by-law is named Josh’s Law after a local teen who sustained a major brain injury while skating without a helmet.
