For archival purposes here's the text from KSL TV:
Man Rides Unicycle to/from Work
September 8th, 2005 @ 3:00pm
Sammy Linebaugh Reporting
Gas prices got you down? Sammy Linebaugh met a man whose childhood
passion is saving him big time at the pump.
Richard Terry is a regular guy going to work, only his transportation
isn't exactly typical.
Richard Terry: "In high school I rode to school, in college I road to
school, so when I got a job and started working, that's the way I
transported myself."
Up and down Avenues streets the Salt Lake lawyer commutes the mile plus
to his office riding his unicycle. He's done it for 30 years. He's so
good at it, he even held our camera to give us the view from where he
sits.
Karen Terry, Richard's Wife: "Every single day, this is his car. That's
how he gets to work. He rides in the wintertime even when it's icy, he
rides that."
Richard: "Every so often you'll hit a sheet of black ice and you don't
see it and you'll go shew, straight out and sometimes the briefcase will
go, and you'll just kinda go flat out."
Karen: "One of the things we've had to do is find good umbrellas that
won't invert in the wind."
Rain or shine he rides. It's a speedy eight minutes from door to door.
Unicycling, he says, is a lot trickier than you might think, so we gave
it a shot.
Sammy: "Definitely harder than it looks."
Richard: "If you slalom ski or water ski, it's very similar. A lot of
times I'll go up in the high Avenues and just come down, and it's just
like skiing."
Sammy Linebaugh: "You ever gotten a speeding ticket?
Richard: "No, but I've had two policemen pull me over, riding on the
sidewalk. And the one actually issued a ticket, but the prosecutor
wouldn't prosecute, and I set it for trial and the prosecutor said, 'No,
I'm not going there.'"
Meanwhile, Richard Terry keeps getting there his own way. The
courthouses are within walking distance. Terry says, on the rare
occasion when he needs to drive someplace, he takes the company car.
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