Occifer, I want to r'port a crime. I wuz jus sittin in dis bar drinkin, and when I came out here I found dat some somuva***** went and got my bicycle drunk!
I actually said that to an MP once. In Japan we used to rent what we called Benjo Bombers from the PX - big ole steel fixed-gear cruisers, coaster brakes, chain guards, bell, light & generator, etc. We'd go out into da Ville and get plastered, then have little bike rodeos riding back to the base...and on the base, seeing who could kick who over or jumping benjo ditches, which is why the bikes got their nickname. It was a lot of fun, we were lucky not to kill ourselves. We were young, stupid and bullet-proof.
Don't ride drunk - just because some of us were morons in our youth doesn't make us role-models to be emulated. One would hope people have gotten smarter over the last few decades.
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"Let us hope our weapons are never needed --but do not forget what the common people knew when they demanded the Bill of Rights: An armed citizenry is the first defense, the best defense, and the final defense against tyranny. If guns are outlawed, only the government will have guns. Only the police, the secret police, the military, the hired servants of our rulers. Only the government -- and a few outlaws. I intend to be among the outlaws" - Edward Abbey