Steve McQueen once roared up to a movie set on a motorcycle. The director went berserk yelling at him to get off that thing. The slightest mishap could halt filming on the movie and cost them millions.
So why was George Clooney driving 60 miles per hour on a motor scooter in Sardinia? They're filming a Catch 22 TV miniseries. He crashed into a car that suddenly turned into his lane and flew several yards into the air. He landed on another car and broke the windshield with his head. If he hadn't been wearing a helmet, he'd be a dead man.
I live near a university. Every few years, when the economy gets especially bad, students start riding scooters. They're easy to park and insurance is dirt cheap. Then people start getting injured and they decide it's not such a good idea after all.
I had a friend who rode one until a girl down the street from him was riding along, minding her own business when an on-coming car turned left in front of her. She survived but spent weeks in the hospital.
But why is a fifty-seven-year-old millionaire riding one?
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