When I lived in Calgary, I sometimes used to pass a unicycle rider downtown while riding my bike to work. When I moved here, I started riding to work in the first spring and found myself passing a unicycle rider one morning. Then I came out to the bike rack at the end of the day and saw a unicycle chained to it.
“Holy hell! Did he follow me here!?”
lol “caught” as if he was trying to hide it???
it is his secret shame
Pretty sure they used a master ball to catch him and he is weak to ground type attacks.
Love the idea of fire juggling unicycle clowns!
But the real news I took from the article:
Police drones captured footage of a man wearing bright-colored clothes riding a unicycle in a crosswalk
Your police uses drones to patrol the streets and respond to calls?
You don’t expect them to actually cruise around in their vehicles do you? Or actually {gasp} walk a BEAT?
These cops are people too, y’know, they have as much right to be lazy at their jobs as you do.
If it was just that, it would be totally ok.
But in reality, cop-controlled flying cameras flying around checking out things like minor traffic violations sounds scarily dystopian to me.
In my area, they’ve had passive red light and school zone cameras sending out tickets for the last several years.
In the case of the red light cameras, they got caught shortening the timing of the yellow lights, so they could hand out more tickets.
Last year, they added school zones, because who can argue with that, right? That’s ALWAYS the start of greasing the slippery slope. So within a year, it was found that they had put the cameras OUTSIDE the school zones, and handed out thousands of tickets to people doing the legal speed limit OUTSIDE the school zones.
I’m neither case did they refund the fines to all those people, remove the points from their records, or reimburse them for online driving school, higher car insurance rates, etc. it was just “Oh well, sucks to be you.”
There are also lots of Speed Limit signs with those helpful attachments that tell your actual speed, so you can slow down. All they have to do is hook up a camera and a modem to the Internet, and they can start mailing out speeding tickets, too. I would bet nearly anything that those boxes already have the tech built in, and all they have to do is activate them remotely anytime they wish.
We’re all just sheep to be fleeced.
Funny, I live near a city that “fire juggling unicyclist” is so benign, that it doesn’t even make the news anymore. The current thing is to dress in anthropomorphic animal costumes and antagonize the Federal Gestapo.
It’s weird seeing this appear in news, as it is a rather common sight in streets in Colombia. You’ll see people doing all sorts weird tricks in some redlights, hoping somebody will give them some coins.
And we all thought Earthbound enemy is wacky and unrealistic.
I’d give that guy a buck. He’s earned it.
based
Seen here after a tragic fire juggling accident. Still at it.
Not even close to brand new if you live near Portland.
