SITCIOT - Stick It to Click It or Ticket

Fox News in Tulsa, OK is reporting that cops successfully issued 48 tickets and declared it a “victory”. The officers say they setup a checkpoint to catch seatbelt violators on South Lewis Street due to the occurrence of many wrecks. We’re not sure the police department has any reason to celebrate, because increased seatbelt use has been proven to NOT reduce the number of crashes. Unless they are celebrating the financial windfall - at $20 per ticket - $960 is not bad for an hours work.

After U.S. Consumer Reports complained that Billy Ray Cyrus and his daughter were depicted in the hit Disney series “Hannah Montana/Miley Cyrus: Best of Both Worlds Concert Tour” in the back seat of a car without wearing seat belts, the star apologized, saying seatbelt safety was “very important”.

From Reuters:

Consumer Reports said Cyrus and his 15-year-old daughter were filmed riding in a Range Rover on the way to rehearsal for the concert tour and neither was wearing a seat belt. The magazine said in a blog posting that movie and TV shows did influence how children and adults acted in daily life. “Simply put, not wearing seat belts while riding in the rear seat of a vehicle is dangerous,” said the blog posting.

Apparently, Consumer Reports is getting desperate for things to write about but they don’t seem to have any trouble coping with all of the violence on television. Nor did they address the impact of how having more shopping channels than educational channels can turn children into mindless brain dead consumers who can only say “Buy, Buy, Buy!”.