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Baiting Guru Joined: 21 Nov 2010 Posts: 2200

Alright, who is responsible for this? Laughing

Baiting Guru Joined: 27 Mar 2011 Posts: 21158

This must be the reason my Ivy does not want to ride be hide me. You mean person you!

Posted: Mon May 20, 2013 5:44 pm

The guy with the paintpot on his head? That's just somebody that I used to know Wink

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8UVNT4wvIGY

Posted: Mon May 20, 2013 10:47 pm

It may have nothing to do with baiters. This extract is from a Nigerian paper in 2009:

Quote:

Police in Nigeria have arrested scores of motorcycle taxi riders wearing dried fruit shells, paint pots or pieces of rubber tyre tied to their heads with string in order to avoid a new law requiring them to wear helmets.
The regulations have caused chaos around Africa's most populous nation, with motorcyclists complaining helmets are too expensive and some passengers refusing to wear them fearing they will catch skin disease or be put under a black magic spell.
The law, which came into force on January 1, pits two factions equally feared by the common motorist against one another: erratic motorcycle taxis known as "Okadas," whose owners are notorious for road-rage, and the bribe-hungry traffic police. Some bikers have used calabashes -- dried shells of pumpkin-sized fruit usually used as a bowl -- or pots and pans tied to their heads with string to try to dodge the rules. Construction workers have set up a lucrative trade renting out their safety helmets for 500 naira a day...
Newspapers quoted passengers as saying they feared the helmets could be laced with magic spells so as to knock the wearer unconscious and make them easier to rob, while others feared they would pick up an infection.

(Full article: http://www.reuters.com/article/2009/01/07/us-bikers-odd-idUSTRE5063SU20090107)