Sidewalk Cyclists

I was on my way home from work on Friday and I walked past two beat cops issuing a ticket to a cyclist either for riding his bike on the sidewalk (despite there being a bike lane on the road) or for not wearing a helmet, or both. I had a little smile inside because I really hate bikers weaving between pedestrians on the sidewalk! It's called a sideWALK for a pretty obvious reason! Anyway, the really ridiculous part of this story is that as I continued on my walk home, I passed another cyclist on the sidewalk, about half a block away from where the cops were issuing their ticket. I stopped, turned around, and watched the unhelmeted, cyclist ride all the way along the sidewalk and up to the cops, who promptly stopped her and issued her a ticket too. WTF? You could plainly see that the cops were issuing a ticket to another cyclist on the sidewalk. Did she think that they would be too busy to notice her sailing by?
This is what can happen when you spend your day self-absorbed and oblivious to the world around you. Hopefully now they will have learned from this and we have two less sidewalk cyclists to contend with in this neighbourhood.