Hit and run accidents are serious crimes so N.J. assemblywoman Cleopatra Tucker sponsored a bill requiring bicyclists to register their bikes and display license plates*. This was due to a large number of elderly residents being run over by young hoodlums. The only problem was the elderly had trouble seeing the small plates, and when they did see the numbers they couldn't remember them. The police couldn't even verify they were run over by bikes because their wrinkles camouflaged the tire marks. In the end widespread protests by bicyclists meant the law was knocked down faster than aunt Meg crossing the road during the Tour de France. Anybody get Lance Armstrongs plate number?
*http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2011/01/nj_assemblywoman_slams_brakes.html
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