Bush: 'Time I grew up'
Found on Ananova on Thursday, 07 July 2005
George Bush said it was time he grew up after cycling into a policeman - on his 59th birthday.
The US president's mishap came on his mountain bike outside the G8 venue, reports the Mirror.
Mr Bush, left with cuts to an arm and hand, showed off grazed fingers to reporters and grinned: "It goes to show I should act my age."
He said: "When you ride a mountain bike, sometimes you fall, otherwise you are not riding hard. The pavement was slick and the bike came off underneath me."
In May last year Mr Bush crashed his bike on his ranch. In 2002, he famously fainted and toppled off his sofa in the White House when he choked on a pretzel and in June 2003, he fell off a scooter at his estate in Maine.
It's scary that someone who cannot even ride a bike (or eat for that matter) is in such a position. It reminds me of his political life: he stumples and falls, but always gets up. Unfortunately, that is.