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Up2Late

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12. Well yeah, I know that now, but I was 14 at the time, I think. They also ticketed us for...
Thu Nov 1, 2012, 02:37 PM
Nov 2012

...not having licensed our bicycles too, another Law we didn't know about at the time. And it was not like the Police couldn't have told me or my Dad that before, as this was my 3rd bike, the 2nd one I had we HAD gotten licensed, just because we thought it was a good Idea. Because they imprinted the license number into the bike frame, which was supposed to help if it was stolen. Not sure if that's true or not, but the point is, the Firemen who did the licensing (yeah, figure that one out) never told us it was a LAW that we had to license them, just a good idea.

I guess my larger point is, how are you supposed to follow bicycle "Laws" if they don't tell you what the Laws are until you get a ticket for breaking one? I mean, I might be able to find my local bicycle Laws if I look long enough on the internet, but I haven't found them yet, and finding them back in 1978, without the internet, was almost completely impossible, since they didn't issue Bike RIDER license, they just licensed the actual bike.

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