Title: On duty or on a joy ride?
Genre: Verbal Folklore
Informant info: Anonymous
Type of lore: Joke, Verbal Folklore
Language: English
Country of Origin: U.S.A
Social / Cultural Context: S & S officers often patrol campus on bikes as an easy and mobile way to get around campus. Students have developed jokes about these bike officers.
Transcript: Everyone sees S & S officers riding around on bikes but never see them actually enforcing any rules. I think that they just like to go on long bike rides for fun.
Collector’s comments: The informant made it seem like this was the popular opinion about S & S bike officers among all students.
Collected by Robert Moffitt, Class of 2016.