Still trying to figure out how you stop next to an open manhole then fall off your bike into it, sounds like a Wiley Coyote move for sure.. :wow: An Atlanta police officer suffered a knee injury when he fell off of his motorcycle and into an open manhole Saturday night, police said. The officer, whose name was not released, was transported to Grady Memorial Hospital and was alert, Officer Kim Jones said. The incident happened during a traffic stop near I-75, near Central Avenue, Jones said. http://www.ajc.com/news/atlanta/atlanta-cop-falls-into-568300.html
I stepped into a rain gutter on hot pit lane at Barber. Result was falling over onto the armco in essentially the riding position, I had no clue what happened. I feel this man's pain.
Probably started getting off his bike before he realized the manhole was there, and when he tried to put his foot down, nothing was there!
Happens with cars in Detroit all the time. Ghetto homeboys steal them for scrap money in the middle of the night. I drove down Mound Rd. one time about 7 or 8 years ago and for 3 miles every manhole was missing. Sometimes manhole lids will stress-crack and crumble into their own hole too.
Not as painful, but pretty funny; Earlier this year at a police motorcycle skills competition I decided I would park in line with the rest of the motorcycles, in front of the crowd. So I pull up, back the bike in, turn it off and give the kick stand tab a quick kick.... As I dismount from the highside, the motorcycle slips from my grasp!! Seems the quick kick on the kick stand tab did not fully extend the kickstand!!! LOL
Seems like stolen storm/manhole covers were the problem. Also the newspaper had the story wrong, he didnt fall off his motorcycle, he was pulling a motorcycle over. Heres the follow up story. http://www.cbsatlanta.com/news/24228464/detail.html
"Thieves steal these grates at taxpayers expense," said GDOT spokesperson Mark McKinnon. "The grates cost five-hundred dollars each and they turn around and sell them to a scrap yard for less than twenty bucks." Maybe the state should offer to buy them back for $40
find some at the scrap yard and fine the yard so they wont want to buy them. if there is no money in it then they wont get stolen.
We should draft a story about this and inform the public how to pop em' up and roll them off. That would be constructive media to the rescue. Some people are baffled as to why they are round and how theives get the heavy steel disks up.
