{"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 <\/p>\n