Cool! I'm hoping they're making a comeback. I haven't seen one since I was 20, up in Hyannis Mass. Haven't seen one in CT in decades. I've often thought of buying the cases and raising the eggs to release but the $30+ per case price stops me every time. Maybe someday.

Measuring the amount of e.Coli in the water from all the goose poop.

Then maybe bicycles should not be sold in toy sections of department stores......

Yes, you certainly do seem to be confused. I have no idea why; my post is pretty much to the point, but I'll try to break it down for you.

Think about when you were a kid. Think about how you and your friends rode bikes. Think about the kinds of injuries you and your friends got from bike accidents - broken arms, sprained or broken wrists, broken collarbones, maybe a cracked or knocked out tooth or two. That's about it. I know quite a few kids who broke bones or cracked a tooth from falling off a bike in motion. But I don't know a single kid who received a concussion from falling off a bike in motion.

Now explain to me exactly how wearing a bike helmet will keep a kid from breaking an arm? a wrist? or losing a tooth?

Now think about how you and your friends went sledding. Think about the areas where you went sledding - schoolyard hills, backyard hills, the woods, driveways, main roads. Remember that I'm talking about 40-some-odd years ago, NOT today. Think about how kids got hurt by sledding then - from running into parked cars, rocks, trees, sides of buildings. I know at least 3 kids who received concussions from sledding and slamming into the brick wall of Kendall School; a rock; and a tree behind my house. Yet there are no requirements for sledders to wear helmets.

So what are my personal conclusions? Okay - first we are told our kids *have to* wear a helmet to ride a bike, yet in my entire lifetime (I'm 50+ ) I know of no child who did not wear a helmet who ever received a concussion from falling off a bicycle! Thus I conclude - from my own lifetime experience - that being forced to wear a helmet while riding a bicycle is ridiculous, unnecessary, and yes, an intrusion of government into private life. It's also not a lot of fun.

I also conclude that - in my lifetime experience - since injuries from sledding resulted in concussion where injuries from bicycle riding did not, it would make more sense to require the wearing of helmets while sledding since skiers and snowboarders are ALSO required to wear them.

I am not talking about seatbelts. I am not talking about motorcycle helmets (and remember, there is no law requiring the wearing of motorcycle helmets in the State of Connecticut to begin with, so bringing that into the discussion is a moot point at best).

All we are talking about here are CHILDREN RIDING BICYCLES. There is no "danger" from riding a bicycle - which is a TOY - that necessitates the wearing of a helmet. Rather, if you want to take it to the next level, riding a bicycle SHOULD require the wearing of arm and wrist guards and maybe a face guard too, since kids falling off bikes have a tendency to fall face first with their arms outstretched, thus causing the broken arm and wrist bones, broken collarbones and knocked-out teeth. And i'll repeat again, no helmet is going to stop an arm or wrist or collarbone from being broken or a tooth from being knocked out.

Sanity, I'm not disagreeing with you - but we're talking about kids riding bicycles, not "cyclists" who ride alongside traffic on major roadways on a daily basis as adults. For one thing, there is a great deal of difference between an injury suffered at the age of 8 or 10, and the same injury suffered at 35 or 40. The injury itself is different and the healing is different. The riding is different also - faster bicycles, faster speeds on the roads, and constant interaction with traffic. Sure, we kids rode in the roads too, but there weren't as many cars on the roads back then, and we were mainly riding house to house, or to the local playground or the candy store - we weren't riding marathons around reservoirs or from one town to another on a regular or daily basis.

In any case, as I stated earlier, with all the kids I knew growing up who had bicycles, back in the early 1960s to the mid-1970s (by that time we were old enough to drive), there were no helmets worn. Bicycle helmets didn't exist then. NOBODY wore them (and back then adults didn't ride bikes either, for the most part; not like they do today). And none of those kids I grew up with ever suffered an injury that put them in the hospital for more than a few hours at the most (while they had a bone set). I can't remember a single kid getting a concussion from riding a bike and falling off it. Yeah, I remember reading stories in the paper about the odd kid or two that was on a bike and hit by a car and killed, but that has nothing to do with wearing a helmet - kid on bike vs. automobile is almost always going to result in a death.

However I DO know of several kids who got concussions from slamming into trees or rocks or cars or buildings while sledding. And there's no legislation requiring sledders to wear helmets. Although they have to wear them to ski or snowboard. It's an odd distinction.

But that's what I mean - a bike helmet only protects the top and sides of the head, it does NOTHING to protect the jaw and the face! And every kid I know (well, today they're middle-agers, LOL) who had a bike accident that resulted in an injury never had a problem with their head (as in "concussion"), but with their teeth, their collarbone, their arms or their wrists.

Now please explain to me again how wearing a bicycle helmet is going to protect your teeth from being knocked out? Your collarbone, wrist, or arm from being broken?

ROTFLMAO!

NorwalkSpectator, I know you made a post that has something to do with a hairline fracture because part of it shows up in the gray sidebar to the right, but after 3 days it has yet to show up in this thread so we can read the full post....o.0

Oh well, maybe someday.

What difference does this survey make? The state is already looking to sell the property, and Super 7 is never going to be built in this millenium.

Thanks a lot, Wilton.:@

Seems as if the BOE has been purchasing hundreds of computers every 2-3 years or so. I can't imagine why their IT people can't repair the ones they have to lessen the necessity of constant re-purchasing.