{"id":5370,"date":"2013-08-11T16:04:28","date_gmt":"2013-08-11T20:04:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/?p=5370"},"modified":"2025-01-24T08:22:09","modified_gmt":"2025-01-24T13:22:09","slug":"darwin-award-contenders-on-motorcycles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/?p=5370","title":{"rendered":"Darwin-Award Contenders on Motorcycles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I drove (a cage) up to Pittsburgh and back this weekend, when my spouse and I returned his mother to her home after visiting with us for a week.<\/p>\n<p>While driving, both on the interstate and around her home town, I couldn&#8217;t help but notice guys on motorcycles.  After all, it is summer!<\/p>\n<p>Trouble is, most men on motorcycles were not bikers, but were&#8230;<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n&#8230; contenders for the Darwin Awards!  Examples:<\/p>\n<p>1.  Guy on a sport bike, full-face helmet, mesh jacket, gloves&#8230;<br \/>\n    &#8230; shorts and FLIP-FLOPS!<br \/>\n   ==> This idiot is #1 on the list for my recommendation for a Darwin Award.<\/p>\n<p>2.  Guys on big-ass Harleys&#8230;<br \/>\n   &#8230; no helmet (Pennsylvania does not have a mandatory helmet law)<br \/>\n   &#8230; shorts&#8230; sneakers<br \/>\n   ==> I saw more than a dozen of these clowns. The ones that contend greatest for the Darwin Award were those riding 80mph (128kmh) in a 65mph (104kph) zone &#8230; without a helmet.  Really, really, really stupid.<\/p>\n<p>3.  Dude with Chick riding bitch (passenger) on a Harley<br \/>\n   &#8230; dude is wearing jeans and boots (so far, so good)<br \/>\n   &#8230; no helmet on either him or the female passenger<br \/>\n   &#8230; and, you guessed it, the female passenger was wearing shorts and flip-flops with her feet very close to the hot pipes.  Smart. Real smart.<\/p>\n<p>After a while, I had to stop looking as seeing so many of these idiots was quite distressing.  Soon enough, though, they may very well take themselves out of the gene pool.<\/p>\n<p>Life is short:  ALWAYS wear a HELMET, long pants, and MOTORCYCLE BOOTS when on a motorcycle!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I drove (a cage) up to Pittsburgh and back this weekend, when my spouse and I returned his mother to her home after visiting with us for a week. While driving, both on the interstate and around her home town, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/?p=5370\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,21,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-motorcycle-boots","category-motorcycle-helmet-safety-laws","category-motorcycle-ride"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5370\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}