anyone been a "bandit" in a parade?

yup. i did that with the fourth of july parade in my town, though I went
on the sidewalk and dodged pedestrians sometimes. it was pretty fun.

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Yebbut,
Dontcha wanna go *in* the parade?😎

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Never in a parade, but once in a running race! 3 years ago I leave my
dorm one saturday morning to do some riding, and whadaya know? A
marathon's going on right outside my door! So I figured what the hey,
and rode the last 16 miles of the race, cheering people on as I passed,
offering them rides, and moving my arms back and forth in running
fashion. That was a lot of fun.

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I've never been a bandit in the way you describe. However, once, years
ago, I was a bandit in a different way.

Our club was trying to come up with a fun routine for the 4th of July
parade and someone suggested we do a cops-n-robbers theme.

I ended up riding in a striped prisoner costume. We had these big bags
that had dollar signs on them. Basically the entire parade was the
badits stealing the cash from the cops and then hiding it in the crowd.
Then the cops would ride around chasing the badits and searching for the
cash. The kids in the crowd loved it since they were often enlisted by
either side to thwart the efforts of the other.

-mg

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yah I just jumped into a parade before, and it was sort of funny,
because I was the thing that people wanted to see most, all of the
people had never seen a unicycler in person, much less one wheelwalking.

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Some time in my late college years in the early 80's, I took my Schwinn
Giraffe down the Seattle Torchlite Parade route before the parade
started but the crowd was already assembled.

I had my face done in a clown white base and colored mouth & eyes
(please forgive me for this, I was young(er) at the time). My pockets
were stuffed with Tootsie Rolls that I threw to the kids. The crowd was
very appreciative and supportive of my pre-parade antics.

Whenever I UPD'd I would enlist an adult to assist in the remount, which
was quite entertaining too.

Steve (the ex-clown)

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