Smoking on motorbikes
Sunday, October 31, 2010
Continuing my theme of distentangling honest-to-Stalin Leftism from good old-fashioned British Puritanism, I was looking for an image to illustrate something Mrs P. and I noticed yesterday. Out on the town in Shanghai, we saw many motorcyclists riding (legally) without helmets and smoking en route.
Oddly enough, I couldn't find a suitable photo, but I did find these.
Let the debate between outraged statists and on-the-back-foot libertarians begin.
This is not just a Shanghai phenomenon; whilst in Italy last year it was not unusual to see a mother with up to three children perched on a Vespa, buzzing between the lines of traffic. One particularly intrepid woman had a small child propped on the handlebars and a 25kg canister of propane wedged between her feet.
Posted by: The Apiarist | Tuesday, November 02, 2010 at 01:37 PM
One would think the ash would blow all over them.
Posted by: jameshigham | Sunday, October 31, 2010 at 07:49 PM