Fine for not wearing a helmet?

[Charlie_Jack]

I guess it’s somewhat of a thing. My Chinese isn’t good enough to have a clear understanding of the article below, from October 2019, but it appears to involve a Tainan city councilor complaining about fines for not wearing a helmet, which would seem to imply that such fines are issued from time to time. It also appears to contain some mention of people not wanting to mess up their hair, but again, maybe that reading comes from my lack of Mandarin skills.

安全帽會破壞髮型　台南市議員在議會要求警局長：沒戴勸導就好 | ETtoday政治新聞 | ETtoday新聞雲

Is this the police response to what the city councilor said? I can’t tell:

不然改成戴安全帽罰500這樣好不好！？... - 交通會客室 Traffic1999

So far, looking on the board for reports or opinions about the helmet law has been slim pickings for me, but maybe I just haven’t used the right search words/method.

December 2002:

@glaikit1

. . . he ended up just fining me for the helmet. . . .

@Lord_Lucan

I got fined the day the helmet law was enforced. Once on the way to buy my helmet, and once on the way back to work with the helmet in the box.

May 2008:

@Dogma

Guy on scooter without helmet, police car overtakes, pulls up at the seven eleven gets out while the scooter stops at the red light next to the cop, the policeman proceeds into the store to buy his well earned snack-and-beverage.

September 2008:

@wudjamahuh

The one thing I don’t like about the fines is how some things such as speeding tickets are so much more than the tickets you get for riding without a helmet. Having a kid on a motorcycle without any head gear should cost AT LEAST double what a speeding ticket does, but no, it’s only 500NT or something… in practice it’s nothing because the cops don’t seem to give a damn about that law yet… likely because a 500NT fine isn’t worth the trouble to them.

December 2019:

@tango42

A policeman waved me down and told me put my helmet on. . . .