Aug 062009
 

I read this, and wondered, “where have I seen that before?”


 “A walking helmet is a good helmet”
“Traffic safety isn’t just for cyclists. The pedestrians of Denmark actually have a higher risk of head injury. The Danish Road Safety Council recommends walking helmets for pedestrians and other good folk in high risk groups.”

It took me a minute or two, but I fianlly remembered: I saw it in the online graphic novel “Escape From Terra,” put out by Big Head Press.

It’s not, IMO, quite up to the standards of their “Probability Broach,” but it’s still entertaining. It’s a tale of a tax collector from Earth who sets off to the asteroid belt to bring the libertarian, freedom-loving asteroid miners into the loving embrace of Mother Earth (meaning: complete domination and complete taxation). And it looks like rather than being forward thinking, it might wind up being a bit behind the times.

 Posted by at 9:45 pm

  3 Responses to “Life imitates art: the “pedestrian helmet””

  1. The archetipical novel here is “Tales of the Flying Mountains” by the great late Poul Anderson.

  2. ROFL!!!!!!!! Next up, sleeping helmets.

  3. Hey, sleeping can be dangerous! You never know when you’re going to fall out of bed and accidentally concuss yourself. And if you’re not willing to mitigate that risk yourself, well then we’ll just have to do it for you. For your own good, of course, and for the good of the country. After all, dead men/women pay no taxes, and since it is our duty to serve our fellow men/women, you really have no right to risk yourself anyway.

    Yes, this is a joke.

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