@@zerodio2906 an old old phrase, that everything new that we imagine has a concept that was already invented or naturally occurred. Sounds nerdy, but it’s oftenly seems true
Dead Kennedys already made that joke in 1978, although in a different context (Moscone-Milk assassinations): "I'm the new folk hero of the Ku Klux Klan My cop friends think that's fine You can get away with murder if you've got a badge I fought the law and I won I fought the law and I won I fought the law and I won I am the law so I won"
The law said “self-propelled” machine, which obviously doesn’t include a bicycle, which’s not self-propelled (you need to propel it). It was actually about cars.
@@noahjohnson935I remember when labour was in control, they were making laws left and right until Tony Blair (the biggest meat rider in human history) turned Britain into Bush's personal toy. I'm saying that as a non brit btw.
Fun fact these used to just be called "bicycles" until the "safety bicycle" was popularised which is what we now know as just "a bicycle". So they were retroactively known as Penny Farthings though logically they should be known as Danger Bicycles.
@cynx.5200 this is a law from a bygone era where they probably wanted to reduce the amount of penny-farthing related accidents. Being run over by a bike is no joke, and the rider, being so high up is likely to get very injured as well.
@@cynx.5200It's an outdated law that isn't enforced anymore. Like, it's illegal to sing in the shower in any of the 5 boroughs of NYC, or sleep in your fridge in PA... etc.
@@cynx.5200Back in the days when the Penny Farthing was actually used, this law made sense, but someone forgot to remove this law and now it's just stupid. This is a funny example of how the law screws up sometimes.
The 1896 act actually was to remove the 4mph limit imposed in the 1865 act, and increase it to 14mph. It was also to do with cars self-propelled meaning “not propelled by horses”. It seems you thoroughly misunderstood this.
I didn't want to be "that guy," so I see you got to it first. I was also wondering if that bike counts as a "self-propelled" machine. Because it does not really propell itself, it requires the force of a person peddling it to move. Unlike an automobile that can propell itself.
@@christopherreynolds4506 I thought self propelled meant by the human himself so I thought a normal bike would also count. I am also confused why this would still be a law. Did they really forget to take this out of the books or did he literally just try to break a law from back then that isn't a law anymore?
@@electricpaisy6045 yup. It’s not even a law anymore. This isn’t one of those funny videos about breaking ancient or obscure UK laws still in place (like handling a salmon in suspicious circumstances). It’s literally just a law that no longer exists.
@@1mariomaniac that would be a human-propelled machine. That law was specifically for cars, and is obviously not in place. The video is full of lies about which laws have been struck out, and a few laws like this that were horribly misinterpreted.
Honestly in many countries (Common Law but not only) there are literal boatloads of laws that are de jure still part of the corpus but nobody cares about them anymore XD so even if the cop arrested him, he would've gotten freed in the following hour x)
There was a guy in my neighborhood, in suburban New Jersey, who used to ride a penny farthing around all the time. I haven’t seen him in a while though. I guess he either got transported back to 1896, or he finally went to Walmart and realized regular bicycles are a thing now. I’ve always wanted one of those things. They would be the perfect zombie apocalypse transportation.
And I have this game 9/10 truly how could I have missed this, this is now a 4/10!! Aside from that really enjoyed the video. I’ve no idea why but recently I love watching professionals in industry’s talk, review and compare video game work and design to real life.
I think self means you yourself are propelling it, and thus an engine is not you propelling it: but I’d have to actually read how the entire piece of law is worded
Knee scrapes? Don't you mean aching shoulder, hitting the head on concrete, etc. I can't imagine how they were careful enough on that thing to not fall, especially when turning, and when slowing down to stop and getting off. Infact... WHO designed that thing? There's no way that there weren't any injuries back in the day.
