Beer Bikes Banned? Oh Noes!

I bring you the following from the Christian Science Monitor

Classified as bicycles, they can ride on the streets and park wherever, and they don’t pollute. But on the street, they look like a restaurant on wheels: wide, pedal-powered, multiseat conference bikes taking between 10 and 20 party-goers zigzagging through the most crowded shopping or tourist areas ... Now the “beer bikes,” born in neighboring Holland, are under scrutiny.

Last month, a court in the western city of Düsseldorf formally banned them, saying that the beer bikes are a traffic nuisance. The court case could bolster efforts under way in German cities from Berlin to Münster to ban the contraptions.

I weep for our future...