{"id":4796,"date":"2013-08-27T11:39:33","date_gmt":"2013-08-27T18:39:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=4796"},"modified":"2013-09-01T11:40:00","modified_gmt":"2013-09-01T18:40:00","slug":"citi-bikes-encouraging-prublic-dunkeness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2013\/08\/27\/citi-bikes-encouraging-prublic-dunkeness\/","title":{"rendered":"Citi Bikes Encouraging Prublic Dunkeness"},"content":{"rendered":"

from The NY Times<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

Riding Away From a Bar Crawl With Citi Bikes<\/h1>\n

By\u00a0SHEILA MARIKAR<\/p>\n

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Casey Kelbaugh for The New York Times<\/em><\/div>\n
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It started as a normal date night: Shawn, a bearded graduate student who favors lumberjack plaid, went to Williamsburg for dinner and drinks with his girlfriend. But instead of taking the L train from their Chelsea apartment, they decided to ride Citi Bikes there and back.<\/div>\n
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A couple of cocktails at the Wythe Hotel led to beers at Mable\u2019s Smokehouse and a nightcap at Post Office, a dive-like whiskey bar. After four or five drinks, they undocked a pair of blue bikes and rode home over the Williamsburg Bridge.<\/p>\n

As usual, Shawn sped ahead, and as they ascended over the East River, he turned around to see where his girlfriend was. That\u2019s when he lost his balance, kicked his foot into a bridge railing and broke his toe.<\/p>\n

\u201cI really wasn\u2019t that drunk,\u201d said Shawn, 30, who uses the bike-share program about 20 times a week. (Shawn, like many of the people interviewed, asked that his full name not be used; drinking and cycling is not really something to toot your bike horn about.) \u201cI\u2019ve never blackout Citi Biked.\u201d<\/p>\n

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