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Re:Things people blamed on bicycles by soco on Wednesday August 24, 2022 @07:01AM (#32577700)
The good thing is, "too drunk to ride a bike" happens much earlier than "too drunk". And while with a car some push it and still drive drunk (sometimes with horrendous consequences), a bike has this safety mechanism where they simply cannot be ridden when drunk.
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Re:Things people blamed on bicycles by feet on Wednesday August 24, 2022 @07:08AM (#32577755)
A bike also has the safety mechanism of not being 3000 pounds and the inability to easily drive through the walls of buildings
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Re:Things people blamed on bicycles by SauciestGNU on Wednesday August 24, 2022 @09:28AM (#32579177)
I am a practiced cyclist and an accomplished drinker, and I can tell you that I am able to operate a bicycle deeper into intoxication than I can reliably walk.
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Re:Things people blamed on bicycles by DonHopkins on Wednesday August 24, 2022 @07:20AM (#32577855)
It's as if all bikes came with their own tamper proof drunk driver detector and drunk usage preventer: a built-in continuous driver balance testing system, even more reliable than a breathalyzer, and able to detect all kinds of other drugs too.

Drunk tricycle driving and bikes with training wheels: now those much more inherently dangerous problems!

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Re:Things people blamed on bicycles by umanwizard on Wednesday August 24, 2022 @08:39AM (#32578617)
That just isn’t true. I’ve cycled while extremely drunk on multiple occasions (which, to be clear, I think is a bad idea).
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Re:Things people blamed on bicycles by pjmlp on Wednesday August 24, 2022 @07:56AM (#32578166)
Somehow the bycicles in Germany seem to lack such mechanism, given the state of some examples I have witnessed.
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