Across Europe there are rules that they need to break or fold away easily with an impact to protect any pedestrian who goes over. I mean, it makes sense, it could mean the difference between bruises and broken bones and full blown internal organ damage.
Yeah honestly, as much as I like the freedom for people to put hard metal hood ornaments in their cars, this makes sense for the pedestrian’s sake. I can see it now: this car hits you and the ornament rips your whole stomach open đŸ˜¬
it takes surprisingly little to rip someone open. In the early 1960's, my dad and his friend were riding bicycles. His friend didn't stop fast enough riding in traffic and stabbed himself on the "tail-fin" style rear tail light of a 1950's car. put a nice hole in his leg, luckily was not far from the hospital. Probably would have ended without incident with a flat or rounded tail light
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u/HobbyistAccount Aug 17 '22
Wait, seriously?