[Skybird]

Riding bicycles on the pedestrian's part of the pavement, or on th wrong side of the bike-path of the pavement, is under penalty in Germany. Last year I came out of a store, short before they closed, street and pavement was almost empty. I unlocked my bike which I had locked at a tree, and drove on the wrong side of the pavement to the bike-path of a traffic light, to head over to the the right side of the street, and stopped, since it was red. That distance was maybe 5-6 m, it took one or two seconds to drive, and me being the only one around - with the exception of the police-biker who immediately appeared from my back from nowhere and fined me a penalty of 20 Euros. Law and order and respecting rules is one thing. But one could exaggerate it. If someone is using a divider and a ruler to examine if the dot above the i is really round, it starts to become ridiculous.