In aus.bicycle on Fri, 11 Jan 2008 03:48:00 +1100
TimC wrote:
On 2008-01-10, Zebee Johnstone (aka Bruce)
was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea:
(I wonder if RFID chips could work, with cops and parking cops
equipped with hand held scanners, and a backpack full of locks. A
bike without a chip gets locked up and the truck comes by later to
impound it. Plainclothes spotters at intersections with readers walk
out, scan the bike, and slash the tyres to stop the owner riding off
then lock the bike... Only cost each rider a couple of hundred a year
to fund, surely!)

Woops! I seem to have accidentally placed my bicycle in my microwave!
Sorry officer!

"Bad luck Sir, that will be a $500 fine for riding with an inoperative
chip, you'll get the bicycle back when you pay the fine and the $100
impoundment fee. You can pay now by credit card to avoid the impoundment
fee. Oh, you can't carrying a spare tyre? You'll have to carry it
home, remember you can't take it on the train."


Zebee