I like the ones that're combo'd with bottle openers better. Really sells the disregard for everyone involved.
The one in the picture looks like it has bottle openers on either side of the skull.
I like that its sharp enough that it would probably cause an injury eventually
Anything can be a bottle opener with a bit of practice.
I swear, I was just trying to open it and it slipped inside!
a highway patrol captain gave a safety seminar at my old job, and I still remember what he said about seatbelts - after decades on the highway, working countless crash scenes, he had only had to un-buckle one dead person from a crash. All of the other dead people in crashes were not wearing theirs.
My seatbelt did save me. My work van got T-boned by a semi that blew a red light (dumb American traffic light highway intersection), and my belt saved me from getting a shifter knob added to my abdominal cavity.
Wear it, y'all.
I've flipped two cars. The only injury I had from those two incidents was cutting my finger in safety glass due to my own stupidity. The major down side to seatbelts is that they are difficult to undo when your car is upside down. The benefit of seatbelts is that they let you complain on the Internet about how hard it is to undo your seatbelt when upside down.
I read "flipped" as in "bought it cheap, fixed it up, sold it" and was mildly confused until I re-read it
If you're upside-down isn't a downside actually an upside for you?
Because it makes me laugh, I may have been saved in a rollover because I was not wearing my seatbelt. My truck had Takata airbags, which I only know because after I rolled it I got the recall letter from ford letting me know. The recall is because they go off like a claymore and spray shrapnel.
I’m such a tough badass, I can’t stand the feeling of a cloth strap across my chest
They yearn for the harness and are just too insecure to admit to it
yes! don't wear a seatbelt! break the rules! die in car accidents like a MAN!
Firstly, fuck the assholes who go into the whole right wing punisher bullshit. Just getting that part of this out of the way.
Secondly, wear your fucking seatbelt. It's literally there to save your fucking life. And the lives of those around you. Just fucking do it.
But finally, there are legitimate uses for (non punisher themed, I guess) seat belt silencers. Because of her disabilities, my mom had to use one of these for most of my life. She was unable to wear the seatbelt. There are also autistic folks with doctors notes exempting them from it because of severe sensory issues. Also, have you never put a bag of groceries on the passenger seat, only to be annoyed to hell and back by the beeping?
For groceries, just buckle the seatbelt.
I could use one on my empty passenger seat because the sensor in the seat is defective(where it thinks there's always a passenger) but i instead just buckle the seatbelt across the empty seat.
No, actually I don't want right-wing assholes wearing their seat-belts. The sooner they take themselves out the better. Let them win the Darwin award.
This should be something that you can disable through a setting in your vehicle. Don't make me cut wires, or trick the system into thinking I'm buckled in... just let me turn off the beeping. If I'm in my car and I'm not wearing my seat belt, then I am fully aware that I'm in my car and not wearing a seat belt! It is so frustrating to spend tens of thousands of dollars on something that is specifically designed to annoy you.
And yes, I agree... wear your fucking seat belt! But, sometimes I'm just driving to the end of my driveway and will never get above 5 mph.
Yeah i was gonna say this.
I'd never drive while a passenger isn't wearing a belt (notwithstanding the exceptions you mentioned).
However, it is kind of annoying i cant put things on the front passenger seat while I'm running errands.
Another example would be on farms. Forever getting in and out of the car for gates or what have you, feeding livestock, et cetera.
I think the punisher skull is a bit much though.
Every Republican I personally know breaks laws like these all the time, and yet when a cop murders someone they say "they shouldn't have broken the law"
It's pretty obvious this one in particular is for idiots, but my car's detect person sensor is so sensitive that it goes off when I have towels in the backseat. My solution was to leave the seatbelts plugged in all the time, but a decorative seatbelt silencer might have been nice. The plugged in seatbelt interferes with the middle seat drop down cupholder, so anytime I have a passenger with a cup we all have to deal with the alarm if they don't put the seatbelt back in after lowering the cupholder.
Maybe a rainbow one or something. Make it obvious so it doesn't get lost in a sea of black carpets.
*edit
I did a quick google search, and they're all "rawr I'm masculine and drink a lot" with a dash of ai-generated "this is safer because beeping is distracting please buy my stuff" articles. Nothing with rainbows. Almost all of them include a bottle opener but default, including the CAT and other ATV/construction equipment style ones. Not worth the effort to support that type of market.
Complete with bottle opener! Now you can drive drunk without that annoying chime to remind you to put your seatbelt on!
Excellent product idea, inspires me for some others:
Punisher airbag-knife, specially designed to deflate those pesky government-mandated airbags. Did you know airbags kill people sometimes? Protect yourself by getting rid of them!
Punisher-themed electric bathtub hot dog grill, because it's my God given right to enjoy an American classic whenever and wherever I feel like it.
Punisher-themed fire alarm sound insulating boxes. Pairs great with the electric bathtub hot dog grill
Seatbelt fatalities are like 2%. Ejection fatalities are 83%. The odds are far more favorable to just wear the damn things.
These are the same people that didn't give vaccines to their kids.
I can barely imagine the level of pathetic you have to be to actually use one of these. Holy fucking shit
All I can say is let them die. If they are dumb enough to use something stupid like this, they deserve to not survive a crash.
If you don't use a seatbelt, a crash can turn your body into a projectile and kill someone else, so it's not just "let the dumbasses die" scenario.
Or so I heard on the internet. Sounds like it's probably a thing, though no idea how common it is.
Whenever I see this logo in an obviously right-wing context I think of Big Shot. It's almost like the character was created for these idiotic Punisher-worshipping fascists.
People who own these are men who hate women, people of color, their families, and themselves. At least our taxpayer dollars won't have to pay for their medical bills when they're a potato in the hospital after getting in an accident. 😖 I hate how The Punisher has been co-opted by white supremacy.
Very hope insurance companies check these details after any incident to refuse payment.
Very much hope countries with free healthcare and law force to use seatbelts could refuse treatment such brave persons.
My Subaru could use that for literally anything placed on the passenger seat. Putting your cellphone on the seat will likely set off the dinging.
Siri, what’s America like in 2025?
Skull shaped to signify resulting death due to not wearing their seat belt I guess
Screw right wing punisher dudes.
Seat belt should be used on every drive.
That said, I think it's ridiculous police can charge and make revenue for protecting people from themselves. Education I support, hard enforcement not so much.
I don't want to be hit by someone who decided they were okay becoming a projectile
Guess they're not manly enough to just snip whatever wire is going to it.
On an tangentially related note, one thing that Georgia (the country) has taught me is to always check buckle first before pulling the belt when riding an Uber or any local taxi. Used to pull belt instinctively right away, but in there, too often have I found that, while the belt is still present, the buckle has been completely removed and the driver being visibly annoyed seeing me fumbling trying to find it. I didn't fuss about it, though, the city traffic was so slow I didn't feel unsafe without one, the road police was non-existent(=no fines), and it's not really my business as a tourist to tell locals how to drive.
I hope they sell a lot because the people who like those punisher logos are not contributing to society.
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