In Bali, where I live, the governor wants to ban tourists from hiring scooters and motorcycles — something they've been doing since a bunch of surfers discovered Kuta, a tranquil fishing village on the south-west coast with perfect glassy waves back in the ‘70s.
The bike ban is part of a wider net to address tourists misbehaving in Bali: running businesses without permits, dressing indecently at holy sites, overstaying visas, noise complaints about nightclubs and, of course, tourists riding around on scooters like idiots, smashing up the place. And it's not just the bogans from the outer edges of Perth and Melbourne running amuck in Bali today.
Every month, 20,000 Russians stream into Bali's international airport and they don't exactly have a reputation for playing nice. The Russians are doing crazy shit even the biggest bogans never dreamed of, like
