[UA] ghost bikes memorialize accidents

[Dean Reilly]

LA annihilomancers have discovered that investing a ghost bike with a
significant charge (any school) and then riding it renders the rider
invisible for a short period, as long as he stays on the bike.  Rumor is
that mechanomantic minor charges work just as well, and ghost bikes taken
from cliomantic sites last longer.  Of course, an invisible bicyclist is far
more likely to be hit by a car, but nobody really thinks that  the Ghost
Bike Hive Mind is thus growing in size and power.  I mean, that's just
nutty.



On 5/2/08, Ross Payton <rpayton at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> http://www.boingboing.net/2008/04/30/ghost-bikes-memorial.html
>
> *A Ghost Bike is a white-painted bike that is placed at a location where a
> > cyclist has been hit. According to an old post on bello velo, this photo
> > depicts the first Ghost Bike, memorializing an accident on Holly Hills
> > Boulevard in St. Louis, Missouri. It was created by Patrick Van Der Tuin who
> > saw a cyclist hit by a car. A few days later, he and his friends locked
> > several bikes at locations where he knew cars had collided with cyclists.
> > Since then, the meme has spread nationwide.*
> >
>
>
> Obvious uses: Sympathetic magic at work here. Pacify the spirits of the
> unquiet dead with bikes. Such magic can be subverted by stealing or defacing
> the bikes. A sorcerer or cultist can set up more sinister shrines and
> disguise them as memorials for the dead. No one will question a roadside
> memorial covered with flowers, even if it looks a bit...unusual.
>
> --
> Ross Payton
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