"Tom Purvis" <
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> "Sorni" <
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> > "gabrielle" <
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> On Fri, 24 Jan 2003 06:57:15 -0800, Shaun Rimmer wrote:
> > > > Anyone else fall off their mountain bike a lot?
>
> More often than I care to admit, but not for your reasons (at least for the last decade since I
> quit drinking alcohol).
>
> > > One of my college buddies went out to the pub after having a few, got on her bike to ride
> > > home, and was informed by the local constabulatory (did I say that right?) that she could get
> > > a ticket for operating a vehicle under the influence. I had thought it only applied to cars.
> >
> > Hell, I know some people who've been arrested for Drunk WALKING.
>
> When I was living in Laramie, WY back in the early 80's, and cycling was just another way to get
> home from the bar for me, I had a friend who got a nasty ticket for riding drunk. It was at night,
> and he didn't have lights or anything, but still, better than driving home, isn't it?
>
> Then a few years ago, there was a highly publicized case of a guy in Boulder who rode home from
> the tavern. He got a full-on DUI, and his license to drive a *car* was suspended. I think it
> eventually got thrown out or at least reduced, but in the short run the guy was treated no
> differently than if he'd been driving a car. In CO, DUI can cost you thousands of dollars in fines
> and insurance, driving privileges being revoked for some period, probation; even for a first
> offense.
>
They do that here in Gunnison too. I've had friends get in some big trouble riding home at night. I
don't get drunk all that much, but the bike is my preferred mode of transport here. I just have to
remember to walk it if I'm really sloshed, or at least remember to turn the light on so I'm not
attracting the law.
Matt
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