I'm on the fence with this one, and I was just curious as to what other cyclists thought. My initial thought is that we are going down a slippery slope. However, I certainly realize the safety issue also. The problem is that we aren't very consistent when it comes to safety on the road. If you're 127 years old, and can't see, you can still drive a car in the States - in fact, you can even chat on the phone while doing so. However, if you ride your bike after a few drinks, you can face jail time, and more.

Here is the end of the article. It speaks of the slippery slope I referred to, and also addresses common sense.

We could have arrests for the erratic operation of scooters, wagons and tricycles. You could have a kid on Ritalin who gets a little frisky when he's pedaling the tricycle down the street standing up in court for his third "operating under" offense before he's 9 years old.

Somewhere, in an imaginary land of reason and common sense, you don't need legal opinions about this stuff. Everybody recognizes the obvious -- that if somebody is riding a bike while drunk, he should perhaps be charged with disorderly conduct or public drunkenness, but not with drunken driving.

Not in New Hampshire, where it is apparently much more fun to pretend that the ridiculous is reasonable.