{"id":3410,"date":"2015-08-10T03:36:26","date_gmt":"2015-08-10T09:36:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brutalhammer.com\/?p=3410"},"modified":"2015-08-10T03:54:55","modified_gmt":"2015-08-10T09:54:55","slug":"when-drunk-bicycling-is-outlawed-only-outlaws-will-bicycle-drunk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brutalhammer.com\/when-drunk-bicycling-is-outlawed-only-outlaws-will-bicycle-drunk\/","title":{"rendered":"When Drunk Bicycling is Outlawed, Only Outlaws will Bicycle Drunk"},"content":{"rendered":"

The world-famous Modern Drunkard Podcast recently noted <\/a>that drunken bicyclists can actually get a DUI for boozy biking in the state of Colorado. \u00a0Turns out, Colorado is not alone:\u00a0 21 states and the District of Columbia<\/a> treat impaired pedaling as a crime, in some cases the equivalent of DUI — with equally harsh penalties.\u00a0 Of all the asinine laws that needlessly oppress drunkards (not to mention bicycling enthusiasts who just want to have a few drinks), these must be the most backwards.<\/p>\n

Surely* it is a better world in which potentially impaired persons can opt to bike instead of drive a car.\u00a0 Why take that option away by criminalizing it?<\/p>\n

Surely drunk bicycling is the very definition of a victimless crime.\u00a0 The drunken cyclist who loses control and wipes out is in for a painful meeting with the pavement, but the pavement doesn’t care. \u00a0Whatever bodily harm ensues can be mitigated by wearing a helmet, elbow pads and such-like, which most serious cyclists nowadays seem to do anyway.<\/p>\n

Surely it is absurd to revoke a man’s license to drive a car to penalize him for drunk bicycling.\u00a0 Yet this has happened in the state of Oregon<\/a>, which seems to be the most zealous in cracking down on the non-problem of “BUI.”<\/p>\n

Surely lawmakers in the 21 BUI-criminal states will wake up and realize how nutty all this is, won’t they? \u00a0I won’t hold my breath.<\/p>\n

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* Before anybody brings it up — No, I’m not calling you Shirley<\/a>.<\/p>\n

photo credit:\u00a0 http:\/\/www.dondy.org\/index.php?\/tags\/3-picture\/9-drunk<\/p>\n

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The world-famous Modern Drunkard Podcast recently noted that drunken bicyclists can actually get a DUI for boozy biking in the state of Colorado. \u00a0Turns out, Colorado is not alone:\u00a0 21 states and the District of Columbia treat impaired pedaling as a crime, in some cases the equivalent of DUI — with equally harsh penalties.\u00a0 Of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":101,"featured_media":3411,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[954,146,956,313,90,226,955,54,957],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brutalhammer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3410"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brutalhammer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brutalhammer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brutalhammer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/101"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brutalhammer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brutalhammer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3410\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brutalhammer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brutalhammer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brutalhammer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brutalhammer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}