CBC Nova Scotia has just reported that "The Nova Scotia government plans to pass a law requiring all skiers to wear helmets." Not surprisingly, the story doesn't have too many details on the proposed legislation.
I can't help but wonder if it is really necessary to require cross country skiers to wear helmets as they majestically make their way through the countryside at sub-10 KPH speeds. Requiring cross-country skiers to wear helmets is practically like requiring a walking/running helmet. Until I get to see the text of the bill I won't know if this really is the intent of the legislation, or if this is just another instance of sloppiness in the original media report.
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Walking safety helmets are an idea whose time has come, just like men aboard merchant ships at sea having been required to wear plastic hard-on hats for the last thirty years (for what legitimate safety reason, nobody knows, since Seagull scat has never really been documented as dangerous aero-bombardment).
I know a woman who, admittedly drunk while watching the Bay City Drunken Irishman's Day parade, slipped off the curb where she was standing and happened to hit her head on the curb. She died that night from internal bleeding around her brain. Had she been wearing a walking safety helmet, perhaps her children would still have a mother.
If we can save but one life, won't it all have been worth it?
Apparently there have been 11 skiing related head injuries over the past 11 years, so they really are only looking at one life a year.
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