Laughlin, Nevada – Over 75,000 riders attended the annual five day Laughlin River Run rally that began on Wednesday and ends today. As of the fourth day police had made five felony arrests, three gross misdemeanors, 41 misdemeanors, eight arrests for driving under the influence of alcohol and 413 traffic citations. A police spokesman called the event a “relatively mild” run so far.”

Five felony arrests is mild? After reading futher, I guess so. Prior runs have included brawls that resulted in deaths.

To learn more about the event I went to Google and discovered that motorcylecs and rivers are soul mates. I started to tally all the river related events but quickly gave up. The starting point—a search for motorcycle +river +event—yielded 3,250,000 hits. I thought (for 3 milliseconds) about refining the search and decided not to. I’ll leave the exploration of the motorcycle and river relationship to some post graduate reseacher who is need of a meaningless topic that is guaranteed to get grant money rolling in.

Here are just a few of the events I skimmed from Google:

• Happy Camp River Run Klamath Falls, OR
• Mad River Motorcyle Rally Waitsfield, VT
• Mulberry River Run & Bike Show Pigtrail, AR
• Red River Ralley Red River, NM
• MS River Run MN & WI
• Spring River Motorcycle Rally Hardy, AR

This little excursion of mine did have one beneficial side effect. I decided to add event calendars at the bottom of the sidebar.