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Supermodel Elle MacPherson is in trouble with the Royal Prevention of Accidents for letting her son ride on the handlebars of her bike. The model was spotted in London with son Aurelius Cy propped up on her handlebars. I'm sure there are worse things someone could allow her child to do, but it doesn't seem like a smart move at all.
The RPA is calling her actions "irresponsible" and dangerous. MacPherson was also clutching a handbag. I suppose that is to prove she had even less a handle on her son, but it's also probably because, you know, she's a model. A spokesman for the RPA said what she was doing was also illegal. I don't know about British law, so I can't verify that, but it does seem unsafe to use a bike built for one person to haul two people, especially when one of them isn't even in a seat. I can bet you neither of them was wearing a helmet either.
Plenty of people in New York City tote their kids around on bikes, but the kids get their own seats on the back of the bike. We see a lot of "co-pilot" stickers on the back of these bike seats which ads a little tinge of humor. Cheesy, sure, but a lot safer than letting your kid ride on your handlebars. If that happened in my neighborhood we wouldn't need an RPA to get involved--the neighbors would give a mouthful!
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ReaderComments (Page 5 of 5)
9-19-2008 @ 2:47PM
NewEnglandBonnie said...I'm amazed at what the media calls news these days. Heaven forbid anyone look into the windows or back yards of the morons who see this as newsworthy. All kids need to play, have fun, eat some dirt, get hurt, cry & bleed. The alternative is far more detrimental to their health, future and psyche. give me a break.
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9-19-2008 @ 1:19PM
Lisa said...We have gone to hell in a hand basket, I don't know about the rest of the country but I am so sick of what is happening to us as a nation. If I hear of one more organization, group, commitee, chapter, people for the ? that has to put there unwanted two cents in to everything we are doing the frigging top of my head is going to blow off. This is story bad enough but the groups that really get my goat are the individual ethnic groups that are always separating certain individual that may or may not have been show in a light that seems like a sterotype of that ethinic group like Asian- Americans, Mexican-Americans, African-Americans, German-Americans, etc. most of the time a huge deal is made about nothing, We can no longer laugh at ourselves. It is so sad. What we have lost sight of is this country is built on all of those peole coming from different places and moving here, living, getting jobs, paying taxes, getting married, having children, shopping, owning property... we all have one thing in common we should all think of ourselves as AMERICANS.America is a melting pot of people that is what makes this country great. Lets drop the ridiculous hyphs and all melt together and be one, American.
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9-19-2008 @ 1:50PM
Lisa R said...Some of the best memories I have are of riding on the handlebars of my cousins bike through town ... she had to cart me around with her or else she wasn't allowed to leave the house when I visited for the summer. A 15yr old carting a 9 year old around on a bike old bike... and that 9 year old is still here and intact today, at 40.
I agree is ridiculous that I rode in the back of a stationwagon - god forbid we were in an accident. There are many things as a parent I would think twice about today... but riding on the handlebars, albeit carefully as possibly, isn't one of them.
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9-19-2008 @ 1:56PM
phojes10 said...What a fascinating story
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9-19-2008 @ 2:14PM
debra said...good lord we did this in the 60's lol.everything was so simple back the, ah the good ol days
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9-19-2008 @ 4:22PM
Eric said...Give me a fricken break! I am 59 years young and when I was a teenager, so very long ago, we used to ride all over town with one person on the handlebars and another person piloting the bicycle. I do not need the government telling me how to keep myself or my family safe on a bicycle.
Go find Bin Laden with the resources you are using to keep parents from giving their children a ride on the handlebars of a bicycle.
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9-20-2008 @ 12:51PM
Sherry said...Gimmeabreak! She was in EUROPE and that's how they roll!
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9-22-2008 @ 2:01PM
Gaf said...At least she didn't have him on the hood of a Rolls Royce!!!!! LOL!! It speaks well of her concern for global warming!!! LOL!!!
Why so much condemnation? So she received a citation. She wasn't drunk. She didn't have crack or marijuana on her like George Michael. She wasn't buck naked kissing some other woman's husband on a boat.
Give it a break!!!! What has this US society become?
We seem to idolize sel-righteousness. We malign people who worked hard to achieve some measurement of success and fame by micromanaging their every move and appending some moral deprecation against them. I certainly would not do what MacPherson did with her child, simply because I know I couldn't do it safely. And yes, both my kids rode in a bike seat when I did go bike riding as a young mother. Can't we use the internet for more realistic issues that bear discussing?
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