Would you ride your bike to a nearby box office in order to score a free, front-row ticket to a Radiohead concert?

You would think the question is rhetorical, but not so in France. The mega-alternative band recently offered up 50 free tickets to a show at Paris’s 17,000-capacity Bercy Arena. The one catch: interested concert-goers had to bike to the office of the band's record label -- located in the city -- to pick the tickets up in person.

You can probably guess where this is going. A grand total of 15 Parisians felt motivated enough to ditch their Renault/Peugeot/Citroen for an hour and peddle their way to the box office. That left an embarrassing 35 empty seats in the front row of the concert. Do we need to remind you that this is the same country that hosts the world's most only famous bicycle event?

The UK Sun put it as only the British Press can in mocking their French neighbors and the 35 orphaned tickets: "That's the branch of one tree wasted."

Honestly, this sounds like a story we'd hear about in America, so the fact it happened in France makes it much easier to laugh. We're guessing that Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke, being the devoted EnviroWonk that he is, wasn't smiling as much as he stared down at three dozen empty seats during the show.