Public health menace! Public health menace! Public health menace! Hide the children! Drunk bicyclists are weaving out of control!
Uh.....no.
In Vernal, Utah, two years ago, a pair of archeologists cycling home from a bar were pulled over, given sobriety tests, handcuffed, jailed overnight, and charged with driving under the influence. Two months ago, a man in Boulder, Colorado, was arrested for BUI after hitting a car with his bike and trying to run a red light; it was the third such ticket issued in Boulder this year. And in Germany last year, a student caught cycling home intoxicated from a party was fined €500 ($700) and banned from riding a bicycle on German streets for 15 years.
If you have to look to two states (and two continents), to produce six arrest statistics.....It's hardly, hardly, hardly an epidemic.
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