Remember kids... always wear a helmet. (The almighty bikeradar helmet thread)

Ok, il further my example.
You are a labourer on a building site.
You turn up for work one day in open toed sandals.
There are signs ADVISING you to wear toecapped boots and you know that you really should but today its really hot and you want to wear your sandals. Infact, your wife/girlfriend/mother even told you before you went to work to put your boots on but you didn't listen.
A colleague is too busy eyeing up a leggy blonde walking passed and drops a few bricks on your foot.
Had you been wearing your boots the bricks would have bounced off but your sandals failed to protect your foot and the bricks break all the bones in it and you cannot walk for 6 weeks.
Do you have a case for compensation?

when i worked construction (for all of 3 weeks) it was mandatory to wear steel-toed boots. i would find it silly if someone was allowed to do something like that. then you would be found in violation of regulations. your logic is flawed and silly. if you want cyclists to wear helmets, make them mandatory, like wearing a safety belt in a car. if not the fuck off.