Eric McErlain did the grunt work, and found out some fascinating stuff on that dumb proposed law in Massachusetts that would require kids to wear helmets while playing soccer.

Probably won’t surprise you to learn that the bill (and much of the “science” justifying it) is being pushed by a company that specializes in producing helmets for soccer players.

It probably will surprise you to learn that the original bill contained language that would have banned headers from youth soccer games.

You think at times that Nanny Staters couldn’t get more absurd.

And then they do.

This entry was posted on Thursday, July 13th, 2006 at 6:03 pm by Radley Balko and is filed under Nanny State, Uncategorized. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.