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You’re not gonna need those fingers, are you?
Bob, since your martial arts skills are well-known, I have a question. I’ve been studying karate for several years, and I’m not sure if my instructor is any good. How can I test myself?
Judging from this photo of karate students, I gather sticking your fingers under a moving motorcycle is one good test.
Gosh! You mean just let it run over my fingers?
Evidently.
Any special kind of motorcycle?
I don’t think so. You could probably use a car instead, but I’d draw the line at a big truck.
Jeez, that sounds harsh! So then what should I be looking for?
After the cycle has run over your knuckles a few times, try using your fingers to text-message for medical aid. If you feel great discomfort, maybe you weren’t ready for the test.
Well then that sounds like really, really stupid advice!
What advice?
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High school students have their hands run over by a motorcycle during a demonstration of their karate skills at an annual sports day in Hyderabad, India, November 22, 2008. REUTERS/ Krishnendu Halder
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This is what naughty students get for not behaving in Hyderabad. Since there’s so many of them, rapping across the knuckles is just not feasible for scale-related issues (the ruler would have to be too big to do them all at the same time). Hence the motorcycle.
“I can jump my motorcycle over 8 peoples hands.”
“Here I go!”
“Oh, no good. I try again.”
Wow, this demonstrates karate skills so much better than…I don’t know…breaking a board, or kicking someone’s butt…
Still, you’d expect a nun to be aboard the motorcycle!
gwmc: or a politician. They made a movie about that ya know. It’s called, I think, Cheesy Rider.
Or maybe a minister. Then we could call him a holy roller. In any event, this exercise is, hands down, the strangest karate exhibition I have ever seen.
Did you know that in my youth I studied to be a minister? They threw me out of the seminary when they caught me shooting craps. They told me that the school was not for holy rollers.
I also studied to be a dentist, but back then my last name was Scarey, and I didn’t think people would go to see a dentist named “Dr. Scarey.”
Then, I thought “I’ll be a criminal lawyer.” But I only finished half my education — the criminal part.
Did I hear correctly? Some guy in Hyderabad has invented the worlds first Digital motorbike?
Hamal couldn’t tank his students nearly enough.
I remember when “What’s your sign?” was all you needed to break the ice.
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