NJ Democrat Assemblywoman gears up for mandatory bicycle registration

Here's an idea so stupid I can't believe Mike Bloomberg didn't think of it first. Mandatory license plates for bicycles. And tricycles. Yes, even that Big Wheel™ your toddler got for Christmas. All for the low, low price of $10 per year. And if junior doesn't register his new bike with the DMV your friendly neighborhood cop can slap him with a $100 fine.

NJ Assemblywoman Cleopatra Tucker (D-Newark) came up with this brain fart after some geezers in Belleville and Bloomfield called her to complain about rambunctious kids who were riding "recklessly".

There oughta be a law!

Yeah. A law against legislating while under the influence of drugs or alcohol would seem to be in order. But mandatory bicycle registration? That's just insane. What will she think of next? Requiring radio controlled model helicopters to squawk IFF and be registered with the FAA?

If there were clearly visible dunce caps on stupid legislators the citizens could have some kind of recourse too. Maybe even at the ballot box. That is if the residents of the 28^th legislative district feel up to the task of choosing themselves a competent representative. Because they sure did pick a winner with Cleopatra Tucker.

UPDATE 13 Jan 2011 11:24:
Well that was fast.

Assemblywoman Tucker has withdrawn her proposed bike registration law.

I guess she sobered up. The near unanimous public ridicule her idea generated probably helped too.

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