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TravellinJones said:
Wait, don't tell me, let me guess. Your insurance premiums are going to increase, right?
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Sorry, I'm actually not one of the people who cares about that. When it comes to my insurance rate, I'm my worst enemy. Too much speeding when I was younger. Still, stupid is as stupid does.
For example, there was recently a motorcycle fatality here in Austin. A police officer (possibly retired, can't recall) and his wife were both killed when they went off rode. They were involved in a police biker's charity ride. Tragic right?
Well, it turns out that this charity ride involved riding from bar to bar, and drinking heavily. They crashed after leaving the last bar on the way home. The driver's blood alchohol was 0.2x, the pillion was 0.3x (can't recall the last digit). No one knows how she was even able to stand. Before leaving the bar, the driver did a burn out in the middle of the establishment. The smoke was so bad that the entire building had to be cleared. The floor was permanently scarred. So, with a tire that is now in very questionable condition and a blood alchohol ridiculously off the chart, he rides off into the sunset and off the road. He crashed, literally, on the first corner he encountered after leaving the bar. No helmets were involved.
Now, if anyone but a LEO was drinking and jumped on a bike in plain view of a police officer, we know where they'd spend the night and what would happen to the license. Same goes for any idiot who would ride their bike into the middle of a bar and do a burnout. There was a room full of officers, what happened?
From my perspective, if you drink that much and try to balance yourself on two wheels a crash - probably a bad one - is inevitable. If you put a pillion who is even more drunk and therefore probably will unpredictably affect the bike, it's even more predictable. Throw in a highly questionable back tire from his little stunt... how am I supposed to feel sorry for him?
Sorry for the kids they left behind? Yes. Sorry for their parents and family? Sure. Sorry for them? Not likely.