The Motorcycle Proposal That Shut Down an LA Freeway


 
 30 Jan 2013   Video, Youtube

Hector Martinez of the 710 Riders, a Los Angeles-based biker gang, decided that a traditional proposal to his girlfriend, Paige Hernandez, just wouldn’t suffice. So he and a huge group of other bikers stopped traffic on the 10 freeway in West Covina for around 10 minutes in order for him to pop the question.

In a cloud of pink smoke, caused by a tire burnout from a specialty, color-inducing tire, Martinez asked his future bride to be his old lady for the rest of all time. She said yes. And they all lived happily ever after.

Except not really, because all the bikers are facing numerous fines from the LAPD for impeding or blocking traffic. But, hey. If you’re in a biker gang and your marriage proposal doesn’t involve getting into some sort of trouble with the law, is it even a marriage proposal in the first place?

 

via boingboing

 



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  • Bling-Nye, the Daft Punk guy

    Crotch rockets. About as “biker gang” as the Tour de France.

    • TruuuV

      Tour de France is the new Amsterdam, a bunch of people on drugs riding around on push-bikes.

      *Let’s self out*

  • KillerTruffle

    I can’t begin to count the number of reasons I’m glad I don’t live in southern California, but traffic is definitely one of them. Knowing even the little bit I’ve read about studies on traffic congestion, that short time these jerks plugged a major highway I guarantee were felt the entire rest of the day. Even after the cause has cleared the road, traffic congestion often results in “standing waves” that don’t dissipate as long as there is heavy traffic flow.

    There are lots of great ways to propose. That was not one.

    • CalGore

      Agreed. From the one job i did in atlanta i knew immediately that i never wanted to live anywhere with that kind of traffic. Though i will say that the times i have been to california i found it awesome that everyone knew how to properly merge using the other lane. Where as here in nc when the need for the merge lane comes up, it just turns into one 200000 mile long single line of cars with maybe 1 or 2 using the merge lane every now and then pissing everyone off.

      • DanielCopeland

        You must have visited some other part of California, because my part of it tends to resemble your part of NC.

        • http://dailyoftheday.com/ Lascivious Lass

          *makes note in stalker notebook*

    • DanielCopeland

      Interesting factoid: Most of our traffic problems result from the fact that, outside of our interstates, our roads weren’t generally built with heavy car traffic in mind. Many cities were built around a reliance on rail-based transit. It was when auto companies realized that a public reliant on transit was unlikely to rely on their vehicles that they proceeded to buy up the rail systems and intentionally let them fall into poor condition, so that the public would become wary of the trains and trolleys and look at buying automobiles to get around. Some lines were simply reduced, others were scrapped completely.

      It’s the beauty of capitalism: If you can’t win on your own, game the system and win all the moneys.

  • Sigmund_Jung

    I can’t get past the fact that there is a special tire for pink smoke.

  • http://vonkleist.soup.io/ henryvonkleist

    Motorbikes, right? Let´s be snide about them..

    Motorbikes are the most pathetic of plasticky metal penis-extensions around and blocking a fucking highway to propose to your skank-girlfriend in front of your crowd of lout friends mirrors the mindset of these guys: Fuck the general public by means of the ensuing traffic jam.

    Way to go guys!

    “look at meeee, I have a very loud and very anwieldy flashy vehicle!!!”

    Yeah, I had a very loud bike when I was sixteen but I´ve grown out of wanting to terrorize my neighbourhood.

  • MynameisBlarney

    That is just fucking stupid.