Beer bike seized in Edinburgh

[DrEMa]

I'd love more details on this - pissed on a big bike thing on Leith Walk, who could have predicted it wouldn't end well...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-e...

[DaveH23]

Likely a total non story.

The person steering is an employee who wouldn't have been drinking and likely ran a red light, went on the pavement or similar.

These are in most major cities all over the world.

[Chrisgr31]

They were featured on Jeremy Vines Radio 2 show on Thursday or Friday. Not necessarily this one but the beer bike principle.

[Drawweight]

Edinburgh has a lot of areas where you’re not allowed to drink on the street.

Leith Walk is probably one of those areas and in that case they were just asking to get lifted.

[hidetheelephants]

Drawweight said:

Edinburgh has a lot of areas where you’re not allowed to drink on the street.

Leith Walk is probably one of those areas and in that case they were just asking to get lifted.

They weren't drinking on the street? The "no drinking in public" thing is just so miserablist, the police already had powers to deal with antisocial behaviour.

[vaud]

The test is "public place" rather than street.

https://www.edinburgh.gov.uk/downloads/file/23640/...

[sherman]

Drawweight said:

Edinburgh has a lot of areas where you’re not allowed to drink on the street.

Leith Walk is probably one of those areas and in that case they were just asking to get lifted.

To my knowledge you are allowed to drink in public places in Edinburgh. As long as its a plastic or metal container. No glass as thats a weapon.

Spaces owned by private entities like princes street gardens and Holyrood Park have their own no drinking rules.

The bike will have been flouting traffic rules and making a nuisance of its self.
They dont like people making noise in Edinburgh.
Buskers are about to get their amplifiers taken off them.
https://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/edinbu...

[hidetheelephants]

Miserable east coast gits.

[grumpyscot]

I heard it was because they didn't have insurance - a requirement for any vehicle that conveys the public for a fee. (At least, it is in Edinburgh)

[ingenieur]

Chrisgr31 said:

They were featured on Jeremy Vines Radio 2 show on Thursday or Friday. Not necessarily this one but the beer bike principle.

The same Jeremy Vine who got called a bike nonce: https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/newslondon/jeremy-v...