More Motorcycle Photos from India

A few days ago I posted with links to two blog entries from my friend Basia, who provides numerous photos of entire families riding on single motorcycles in Chennai, India. She has since added two more such postings, here and here. The latter demonstrates how to fit six people on one motorcycle, many of them small children, and with no one wearing a helmet.

This made me wonder what would happen if paternalistic government bureaucrats ("safety-crats" perhaps) saw these photos, or if they visited India and witnessed this first hand. Heart palpitations? Fainting? Or would they reflexively and fruitlessly call over the police to ticket these families? Perhaps make a citizen's arrest? Or lie down in front of the bikes? It would be an interesting experiment.