One of the things that really shocked me when i moved here was how many english people started drinking and driving when they had never done it in England, when i asked why, the answer was always that there was almost nobody else on the roads and never any police so why did it matter. It was like they were on a permanent holiday with no care for anything else.
I freely admit that i rode a bike when i was very stoned when younger, we all did it ,you used to think you were going really fast when in fact you were crawling along at about 10 mph, very surreal