The Moped Vote
Published on 19th April, 2007
a high speed mission to nowhere!
Picture this. You're drifting off to sleep in your Benidorm hotel room after a great night in a few of our show bars and just as you enter the arms of Morpheus what happens? Why some pin-headed pea-brained youth on a moped with holes knocked into its exhaust roars by on a high speed mission to nowhere!
Well, there's an election brewing and it's the season of silly 'elect us' promises and here's what the socialists say they will do if they are elected. They will pay half the insurance costs of a
moped for any youth aged between 14 and 23, an average of about €300 per year. But the money will only be handed over if the mopedeer meets three conditions; always to wear a proper crash
helmet, never to drink and drive, and never to drive between 1am and 6am!
The socialists reckon they're onto a winner with this one as 81% of all traffic accidents in Benidorm involve a moped! Others say that the scheme could cost a fortune as there are 6500 eligible
youths in town and if only 1000 take up the offer there's €300,000 gone straight away.
Perhaps an easier, cheaper solution would be to confiscate all noisy mopeds?
Where am I? 
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