Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2019/07/08/motorcyclist-shows-off-until-t.html
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Expensive.
Ride it like you stole it… then tell the insurance that someone stole it… then hope that no one at your insurer watches youtube videos about arseholes getting hoist by their own petard.
Womp-womp.
“That can’t be very good for the tire, burning rubb… oh, never mind.”
That is some delicious hubris right there.
At least no one got hurt
Is this a metaphor for the Trump administration? Because it seems like one.
That’ll buff out.
“It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.”
ETA: Nice bounce, doink.
It’s this sort of behaviour that the word schadenfreude was invented for!
Is it bad that I laughed?
Thoughts and prayers.
Look at all the pieces - now he has more bike!
Thank you for an early morning laugh-out-silently-in-the-office, followed by a mild coughing fit.
It would have been worse if you hadn’t.
Its possible that heating the rear tire that way increased traction and caused the later upset.
What, the marks on the pavement? Yeah, probably.
Turns out that if you get the tyres really hot and sticky they grip better.
Bit of duct tape, maybe a couple of zip ties - good as new.