WW2 Expert Says Cluster Of Lime Bikes Harder To Navigate Than The Beach Fortifications At Normandy

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A historian and WW2 expert has admitted that the clusters of dumped Lime Bikes around the CBD are harder to navigate than the fortifications on the beaches of Normandy.

The assessment came after Professor Martin Walsh based at Monash University encountered approximately nine Lime Bikes scattered across a narrow section of footpath this morning, creating what he described as an extremely sophisticated defensive position.

“I’ve spent 25 years studying the Normandy landings, and even I’m struggling to identify a clear route through this,” he said, surveying the scene.

“There’s one lying horizontally across the footpath, two leaning against each other, another blocking the pedestrian crossing and several more positioned at seemingly random angles. Whoever designed this fortification knows their stuff.”

Walsh said the arrangement immediately reminded him of the obstacles deployed along the Normandy coastline ahead of the Allied landings in 1944, designed to slow troops and vehicles moving inland.

“At least the beach obstacles had some sort of strategic logic behind their placement,” he said.

The historian eventually attempted to navigate the blockade by squeezing between a bike and a Telstra box, before clipping a handlebar and nearly sending three bikes crashing onto the pavement.

He was ultimately forced to abandon the footpath entirely and briefly walk onto the road.

Professor Walsh has since called on Lime to provide detailed maps identifying safe passages through major bike clusters.