No bike helmet? Lose your wheels
HOLLISTON - If you're young and ride a bicycle through town without a helmet, you may end up walking back home. Police here are looking for scofflaws and will snatch the pedals from your feet if you've been warned numerous times but still forgo headgear.
Holliston police, frustrated in trying to drive home the point that riding without a helmet is dangerous and illegal, are hoping the tactic will finally get the attention of young riders.
We don't want to seize bikes, but for the kids who repeatedly ignore the warnings, it will happen."
Riding a bike - or scooter or in-line skates - without a helmet is illegal for anyone younger than 17 in Massachusetts.
Some youths say the law bumps up against their right to be cool, to have the wind breeze through their hair as they zip through town. Yesterday, a teenage boy was spotted pedaling near downtown without a helmet, his blond locks fluttering. But several others were wearing helmets.
clipped from: www.boston.com 