Menace to society

Can't he keep that thing upright? Another spill. And this time, an innocent bystander is injured. I say, take away that man's bicycle. He's dangerous.

US President George W. Bush, out for a spin on his bicycle at the Group of Eight summit venue, crashed into a policeman and had to be treated for scratches on his hands and arms.

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Mr Bush was going at a pretty high speed on the presidential bicycle when he collided with an officer guarding the Gleneagles golf resort, said White House spokesman Scott McClellan.

A metaphor, I hope, for the crash he's soon to experience as "leader of the free world".

The President was mostly concerned about the police officer, who was taken to a local hospital as a precaution with a possible ankle injury, Mr McClellan said.

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The President, who had been riding with a Secret Service agent, was fine, but the bicycle suffered some damage and Mr Bush had to return to the hotel in a car, which had been trailing them.

He was riding at macho speed when he crashed his bike in Texas, too. Trying to outdo the secret service guy who gets stuck biking with him, no doubt.

This particular Australian news article sets out his previous spills nicely, so's we don't have to go looking them up:

In May last year, Mr Bush tumbled from his mountain bike during a ride on his ranch in Crawford, Texas, scraping his chin, upper lip, both knees, his right hand and his nose.

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Mr Bush previously fell off a Segway - a motorized, two-wheel vehicle - while visiting his parents in Kennebunkport, Maine, in June 2003 and suffered scrapes to his face when he fainted and fell after choking on a pretzel at the White House in January 2002.

And Maru keeps the appropriate photo:

Although I think he should have training wheels.