Vietnam: Small Chest, No Bike Riding!

It's probably the weirdest news to come out this week, hell, probably even this whole month and that's saying a lot since there have been a lot of things going on these past 4 weeks, like the Paris Show and the like.

In a move that has everyone in the automotive world scratching their heads, Vietnam officials are thinking up a law that will ban small-chested people from riding motorcycles on public roads ... a moment of silence now while you put the fact together.

Now that you've got all rallied up, let's take a closer look at how this whole thing happened. The law, or better said, the project comes from the Vietnamese Health Ministry who, in its infinite wisdom, concluded that only healthy people should ride bikes. So far, there's nothing wrong with that. But wait until you hear the rest.

The same Ministry also concluded that the best way to determine a person was sick or healthy was by the circumference of their chest, because, they said, sick people tend to have smaller chests. The magic number then came to be 28 inches or 72 centimeters. Anything below that and you don't get to ride a bike anymore.

While women will probably solve this problem very easily with breast augmentation, smaller men are basically screwed. With the predicted explosion of plastic surgery in Vietnam, the reality is that the law is bogus. Not only because it's discriminative, but also because it only applies to bikes. And the worst news is that in Vietnam most of the traffic is made up of two-wheel vehicles.

Time for bikers around the world to stand together ...