A San Francisco police officer cited a bicycle rider for having a suspended or revoked automobile driver’s license. You read that right — even though no driver’s license is required to ride a bicycle in California when it happened.
From the SFPD Richmond Station police blotter, via the Richmond Review:
Driving with a Suspended License: Aug. 8, 2:42 a.m., Geary Boulevard
An officer on patrol noticed a bicycle rider making an unsafe lane change while riding eastbound on Geary Boulevard. The officer enacted a traffic stop and discovered the rider had a suspended/revoked driver’s license.
The bicycle driver was cited for a misdemeanor offense of driving with a suspended license.
The officer’s baffling application of the law is especially strange considering the fact that this person could have been riding a bicycle because they lost their driver’s license.
Well, if that’s the new order of things, police ought to start ticketing all children who ride bicycles on sight.