Japanese police officers love to tell me that I'm not allowed to ride double on my bicycle. That is ride with two people on one bike. They say it's dangerous. But they have a double standard that I'd like to expose: They allow any housewife with a kid to ride double and even triple on a bicycle. That's right, riding triple! Three people on one bicycle, like a circus act. Do they give them the whistle and tell them that they can't do that? No! They don't. And why don't they?

Because they're hypocrites.

Where do they get off telling me it's dangerous to ride with just two people when there are housewives riding with little kids without helmets in little baskets as if they were a bag of tomatoes. Let's just say, for arguments sake that an accident was to occur. The person on the back of my bicycle is not strapped in and just has to put their feet down on the ground and in an instant they're off my bike. They can bail easily, to avoid any big problems associated with the hypothetical accident. Can a little toddler strapped into a seat (and still minus a helmet) bail? I dare say no. Toddlers cannot bail and go down with the ship. What happens to a bag of tomatoes when you drop one about 1.5 meters from the ground? What happens when said tomatoes are moving at about 8km per hour? Yeah, splat.

So in short, Japanese police officers, why don't you go bust the prostitution and escort services and take down some yakuza gangsters for racketeering instead of whistling at me to stop riding double. That or also bust housewives who ride double and triple too.

*Note* the last three times they whistled at me I just smiled and kept going, pretending not to notice. If they ever catch up to me now, I'll tell them what's what. Tomatoes.