Old Codger On Lime Bike Is Needlessly Playing With Fire

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact

A bloke old enough to be eligible for APIA's insurance offerings is shaping up to need them this week as he needlessly plays with fire by taking a sharebike somewhere instead of literally anything else.

Seeing Monday morning riding an unserviced, abused and visibly rooted Lime bike through Place de l'Hubris in the French Quarter, local man Murray Neimov looked nonchalant and carefree as he whizzed through at a largely antisocial full-pelt.

It triggered a few looks from onlookers, who told The Advocate that the 60-something was "needlessly playing with fire".

"Look at that bloke," said one smoking city worker.

"One mistake and he's pretty much dead. He's old as fuck. You come off a bike at 30 when you're 60, that's the end of a life chapter for you. Having your head bounce off tiles is a young man's game,"

"Seriously, he looks pretty well to do. He could just get a cab or walk. Get a bus. Get anything. All he's doing is putting himself one slip from a new hip or a fractured skull. It's just not worth the risk, is it?"

This chain-smoker's sentiments were echoed by other plaza sitters, who shared the same opinion that Neimov shouldn't necessarily be acting his age, but respecting it.

Neimov did not answer The Advocate's calls this morning.

More to come.