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Police: Man charged after riding trike while drunk | KOMO News – Seattle, Washington | Local & Regional — Freind’s don’t let friends drive tricyles drunk.
A man on the southern Oregon coast was arrested Friday afternoon for riding an adult-sized tricycle while intoxicated, authorities said.
According to Oregon State Police, a trooper came in contact with a group of intoxicated people at Tenmile Lakes County Park near Lakeside and warned a man not to ride his purple “Miami Sun” tricycle home because he was obviously drunk.
Found by Aric Mackey.
In Soviet Russia, purple tricycles are wheels of choice. Handlebar streamers and spoke reflectors, only for heads of politburo.
As if pushing it home would be any safer?
I’ll bet dude wants his area to become part of the new State of Jefferson.
Ray Bradbury was taken up in front of a judge in Ireland for being “Drunk, and in charge of a bicycle”.
One of my favourite lines ever.
Since when is riding a bike the same as driving? Bicyclists violate traffic rules all the time (riding on left side of road, going through red lights, riding on sidewalks, using cell phones, etc). Do the police bust them for these moving violations, too? Do their car insurance rates go up? What if I walk the bike home while drunk? Is that legal?
How is this news? This kind of crap happens all the time.
sounds like a drunk in public kind of law. That’s fine nothing to see here
I knew a guy who got a DUI after riding his bike into a cop car at the beach. He got points on his license.
What would the punishment be if he didn’t have license? If he had one that already been suspended or revoked?
Lawnmower and tractor use has led to DUIs.
What about a horse? Not a vehicle certainly. What if the horse was drunk? Horses have a taste for beer, so it isn’t impossible.
It is quite common for police to bust someone for DUI on a bike. During my college years, I remember the cops staking out common bike paths for students riding back to their apartment drunk. It’s an obvious ploy for money on the part of the police departments of course. If a drunk biker wipes out they are harming no one other than themselves.
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While being drunk on a bike is almost universally considered a DUI, riding a horse depends greatly on the jurisdiction. In some jurisdictions, it does in fact count as a DUI as crazy as that sounds.
The cop did his job. Drunks tend to run into things or get in front of things.
Was this news?
I would think a drunk person would be safer on a horse than in a car or on a bicycle, especially if the horse was used to it. You can just give it its head and let it head home. Of course, if the rider wants to actually _direct_ the horse (and the horse falls for it), _that_ could be dangerous for both horse and rider and whoever else got in the way.
Once, years ago, a cop in our home town (small southern Indiana town) gave my youngest sister a speeding ticket for riding her bicycle 30 miles per hour in a 25 mph zone. Personally, I didn’t believe she could ride that fast. (Nobody liked him.)
Drunk in public should always be a jailable offence everywhere.
We don’t need to see your drunk ass failing about like an idiot.
Go home, get plastered and leave the general public out of your obvious addiction problem.
Jail these people for the night, then have them do 100 hours of community service to be finished within 180 days.
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I can understand a drunk bicyclist being a potential traffic hazard.
But — about 14 years ago I was given a ticket ($85 fine including add’l fees, plus 3 points) for bicycling through a red light. I was sober, riding along the curb of the “top” leg of a “T” intersection.
Whether or not you get stopped all depends on the mood of the cop and probably (dare I say it?) whether or not he’s met his quota for the month.
Freind’s don’t let friends drive tricyles drunk.
Friend’s don’t let friends drive tricycles drunk.
Do they have traffic school for that??