Bicycle Patrollers (2004-11-21)
I was in Shinjuku (
) the other day and saw a group of
people wearing a double-sided bib with a crossed-out bicycle mark
patrolling the street. There were probably a dozen of them
walking slowly on one side of the street checking out all the
illegally-parked bikes. They would stop in front of any such
bicycles, study them and conduct a quick discussion among themselves,
and they would prod along to the next bike or bikes and repeated their
actions. I followed them for a little while trying to take their
picture from across the street where I spotted them. Then they
came to a set of traffic lights and stopped. They were joined by
a man dressed in casual clothes there who proceeded to give them
instruction and all of these patrollers were listening very
intently. Since I had to meet a friend that day, I couldn't
follow them to see what their next step of action was and left them
with a question mark in my head. Don't you just hate stories without an ending?
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