Australian drivers speed to see motorcycle ghost
By QMI Agency
Hit 111 m.p.h. and the ghost of a dead motorcyclist will appear in your rear-view mirror. At least that's what young people in a small Australian town believe, and are increasingly endangering their lives to prove.
The Daily Telegraph reports young drivers along Lemon Tree Passage Rd. — between New Castle and Sydney — are speeding to conjure the ghost of a motorcyclist who pursues dangerous drivers.
"It's alleged that if you drive at speed in a manner dangerous, a bright white light comes in behind you and that's what they are calling the Lemon Tree Passage ghost,” a police spokeswoman told the Daily Telegraph.
Footage on YouTube chronicles the various attempts, and several videos do show a bright white light in pursuit of the offending vehicle, though whether it's a motorcycle is impossible to determine.
"That's the ghost," one girl can be heard saying in a video posted to YouTube. "That's like a motorbike!"
Ghost or not, though, police are asking the young motorists to slow down.
"We want speeding drivers to know that the only bright light they'll be seeing in their rear windows will be the red and blue lights of a police car,” the police spokeswoman told the Daily Telegraph.
Approximately a dozen videos purporting to show the ghost have been posted to YouTube over the past year.
It always baffles me what people will do in an attempt to see a ghost. You could ask them to do the most ridiculous stuff in the world. Its a little different with the Ghost Tracks trick in San Antonio. At least there's no danger with that but asking kids to drive 111 mph down some crappy Australian road is basically asking for them to nearly kill themselves. I think I'm going to start a ghost story that if you punch yourself in the nuts eight times in front the giant jackrabbit downtown you'll see an old oil field worker's ghost.
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