Posted by Mike Cash (Kiryu, Japan) on 3 July 2008 in Cityscape & Urban and Portfolio.
Retarded jackass motorcycle riders in Tokyo. They have total disregard for other motorists and, apparently, for their own lives. They will squirm and wriggle between any vehicles, often with only millimeters to spare. They don't think twice about pulling this same idiotic stunt when it is two trucks or two buses side-by-side, nor about doing it when the trucks/buses are in motion....even in tight curves. It is nothing short of a miracle that more of them don't get killed. Notice that there was one fellow directly on my front left, under my mirrors, and there were more you can't see angling up behind him.
I often remark to my wife that the only reason the Japanese drive the way they do is because of strict gun laws.
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the frustrating drive resulted in a fine photo.
3 Jul 2008 1:55am
Great photo, I love the story: I've seen them drive and you would expect the left overs of a motorcycle wreck every couple of hundred meters but somehow they survive. Those Shinto blessings of cars and motorcycles do seem to work, is what I though :-)
3 Jul 2008 2:22am
I seem to recall you using another, rather ruder, term to describe those guys; around here we just call them 'organ donors'.
3 Jul 2008 10:05am
Natural selection in the urban jungle.
3 Jul 2008 1:15pm
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