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...beers. On the way home he just nodded out at 60 or 70 mph and woke up as his bike hit the loose gravel at the side of the road. "I bailed out," said Kenny, "so the bike wouldn't fall on my leg, but held onto the handlebar so the bike wouldn't roll back on me while we were both spinning around. It's sort of good to know it happened when I was so fucked up that I didn't know what I was doing. Riding around drunk. Cause I would hate to make a mistake...
...Canada two years ago, a motorcyclist with an electrically operated prosthetic arm passed near high-tension lines that were creating a powerful magnetic field. This energy caused the arm's motor to behave so erratically that the rider lost his grip on the handlebar, fell to the ground, and was nearly killed...
...squad's enforcement than to battle attrition, but the Chinatown detail stayed. Ignorant of Chinese customs and language, the cops often reminded local residents of the tyrannical blue-jacketed officials of the Emperor's court. The detail went undercover-in heavy serge suits, bowlers and handlebar mustaches. Generations of San Franciscans grew up on pulp-magazine accounts of their exploits...
...testimony reads like a surrealistic nightmare: cribs that strangle, glass doors that shatter and become makeshift guillotines, high-handlebar bicycles that break cheekbones, hot-water vaporizers that scald, power mowers that clip off fingers and toes, wringer washing machines that crush the young and unwary. But the gruesome catalogue is no dream; it is compiled from accounts of common product hazards listed in a study released last week by the National Commission on Product Safety. The study notes that consumer products are involved in most household accidents -and those accidents kill 30,000 people annually, permanently disable...
Michael McGuire, with handlebar moustache, goatee, and a chest full of medals, cuts a handsome and dashing figure as the garrulous, fortyish battery commander Vershinin, who saddled with an impossible wife, obtains Masha's love in one of the play's several amorous triangles. He is just fine as he repeats his desire for a glass of tea, and finally gives up, saying, "Well, if we can't have any tea, lets philosophize...