Just got a hilarious e-mail from my colleague Tharan, the one on the picture with me on the bike campaign thread. Couldn't stop laughing for several minutes.

Here it is, translated by yours truly:

"Want a new story in the series of embarassing and terrible bike accidents?

Yesterday I tipped over, slowly, by Majorstuhuset, on top of an ancient pensioner with a cane, so that he fell over with a crash. There we lay, blocking the entire sidewalk in the middle of the rush hour, while hellish scenes danced before my head: broken bones, ambulance, police, newspaper articles about brutal cyclists, etc. etc. Luckily the pensioner was more sturdy than he looked, and he was fine apart from a milk carton that burst in his backpack and leaked all over him and the backpack... It was all extremely, extremely embarassing! And I am never, I repeat NEVER, going to bike slowly past pensioners on the sidewalk any more!!!"

Ha-haaaa... still giggling. Poor guy. And the milk carton!