Reversed Bike Lights

[jack]

Last night I think I saw someone different with reversed bike lights. I may have been mistaken -- it was only for a moment.

However, it reminded me of the puzzle of why. My best ideas, none very plausible, were:

* They didn't know which way they were supposed to be
* Mental instability
* Hunting down slow moving pedestrians (like an Owl's call is supposed to sound like it's moving away)
* An obscure personal joke, superstition or philosophical metaphor
* Some sort of optical effect or time-reversal

Although I don't know if the second and third are really different.

However, this person I saw cycling the wrong way down a one-way street, and a sixth and seductively plausible cunning reason for doing so suddenly occurred to me...

PS. That is, assuming that you don't care about any potential danger, but are just worried about being stopped by the police, and assuming that given the number of people without any lights at all no-one will do more than ask you WTH if you reverse them, and assuming that at least sometimes you go the wrong way and aren't stopped because it looks like you're going the right way, reversing the lights might reduce your sanctions.

Comments

[mair_in_grenderich]

illegal, of course :)