Drunken (City Councillor) Biking
My Old Man was previously a city councillor for our area (between 2002 and 2006ish) and basically used the position to piss off the other councillors and get drunk on rate-payer money. After one particularly successful night of drinking and annoying he decided to ride home on his pushbike - Around that time the local police had started cracking down on drink-cycling. (I have heard reports of people losing their driving license because of drink-riding).

Just as a local cop car was driving past him his front wheel flew off (turns out the bolt had been slowly unwinding itself and just finally had enough) leaving my old man in the precarious situation of "oh crap about to crash". The policemen (lovely chaps) pulled over to see what happened. With my father being unable to string two words together they propped him up, put the front wheel back on and did it up tight and sent him on his way. They also followed him to see where he'd go.

So when he showed up a bit worse for where at the front door, we were greeted by two lovely cops who explained to us why our family member was scuffed up. We filled them in on his councillor ways, they cautioned us about letting him drink and ride and off they went.

NB. He had some questions for us when he woke up in the morning...
( faultykyle, Fri 6 May 2011, 2:09, Reply)