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vidTO: Pedal Power VS Toronto Police
From the Youtube description, posted by Kittykate8:
Michel de Broin, an artist, had totally stripped down a 1986 Buick Regal and outfitted it with 4 independent pedal and gear mechanisms. This was part of 'art' piece being exhibited at the Mercer Union Gallery (24 October - 8 December).
Anyway, the police noticed the car's test drive and thought to pull it over and check it out.
See folks, at least this "art" didn't cause a frickin' AIDS charity drive to get canceled by some feckwit. And look Ma'! NO TASERS!
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You are free to go.
Maybe they got pulled over because they weren't wearing helmets?
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I totally love it.
I just come home from driving all day .
I wish everyone drove one.
Except me.
I love how the horde of bike cops come by about half way through the video. Not that they helped out much. Maybe they were the backup in case things got out of hand.
Doesn't sound like he's the sharpest knife in the drawer does he?
"Damn, if another car hit this thing the occupants would be burger."
Yes, Eva is right. Most things that cars hit are turned to burger. I'm thinking such unsafe contraptions should be banned, and everyone should be using the safe, cycling versions. The modern world is kind of backward, the way that most people perceive the lighter, slower-moving vehicle to be unsafe, while the vehicle doing the killing and maiming receives impunity.
Anyway, I think most territories and states have practical laws against obstructing traffic on public highways--whether with a motored vehicle, a bicycle or what have you--and that might be a consideration. But I wonder if a slow-moving vehicle placard would be ample precaution.
The "driver" i.e. the person in the seat with the steering wheel received an unspecified $500 fine and is going to court in early April, anticipating beating it.
You Markins sure is a right funny bunch!
RE: "In Amerika, we don't cotton to such nonsense. Those peddlin' fools would have been tasered post haste!"
Posted by: at December 3, 2007 4:15 PM
If the Buick was engineered nicely, it probably stopped fast. Our civic had the original back brakes, and about 1/4 the weight it started with so it stopped better than a lot of regular bikes and some cars. It was also pretty fast: we could keep up with city traffic. I don't know if that's a compliment to our bike or just a testiment to how slow city driving is.
We also avoided being tasered.
"there are no seatbelts or floors"
and this is different from a bicycle HOW?
The problem here is, the grey-suited lawmakers of the land never imagined anyone driving a car-shaped quadracycle on the streets, so there isn't a law for it. The traffic cops can't think beyond this vehicle being a car - because it looks like a car, they feel the need to treat it like one. They can't imagine it being anything else, which is why they are traffic cops.
It's good art because it explores the issue of perception and shows how people feel a requirement to define something, in this case, simply judging it by the way it looks, and not what it actually is.
Heres a thought you damn cops..go catch CRIMINALS. PREVENT rape and murder ffs.
You have to be a car or a bike. You cant be both.
Oink oink!