If you’re in a wheelchair, motorized or not, YOU ARE A PEDESTRIAN according to the NS Motor Vehicle act, so PLEASE, FOR THE LOVE OF ALL THAT IS GOOD AND HOLY, GET OFF THE GODDAMN ROAD! I try to drive carefully and I really don’t want to hit anyone with my car, but when you drive your damn scooter down the middle of the frikken’ road, you’re making my life pretty damn difficult. Please, consider your safety and my sanity, and use the sidewalk and the crosswalks. You’re not a car. —I Just Don’t Want to Splat You
This article appears in Sep 22-28, 2011.
Reminds of the Seinfeld with George on one of these being chased by a bunch of older people, set up like some bike gang..lol. As far as the bitch shouldn’t the police being doing something about this…oh right it’s HRM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=csuZHyW-iGI
There’s a guy who lives up (or used to live up) by Maynard lake, & he used to be seen doing that all the time.
I heard from people that I know in that neighborhood (I used to live there) that after repeated warnings he was arrested & charged…I never personally had the opportunity to speak to him, but I had to get around him on more than 1 occassion,while he was driving on the road.
He had one of those 4 wheeled scooter chairs OB, I wonder if it could be the same guy, big ,heavy set, black hair, glasses.
Did you now you can get a scooter or power chair at no additional cost to you through Liberty Medical? The TV told me so. Also, Patrick called and relayed a lot of information about life insurance in a very short amount of time…
Reminds me of poor caper buddy…..
Hey you… on that device……
http://www.americantailgater.com/graphics/…
ride on the sidewalk… you don’t have a license or plate on that thing.
Oh, and here’s a ticket for your trouble.
*wait a week*
Hey you…. ride that on the road, it’s a motorized vehicle…
oh, and here’s a ticket for your trouble.
*wait a week*
hey you…..
and still, nothing resolved.
Liberty makes it easy!
pimp my ride http://www.funnypart.com/pictures/FunnyPar…
aw shucks, it was a scooter with a toilet. nevermind *sigh*
For whatever reason, you see a lot of the Buddy-Buggy riders in my neighbourhood.
There’s the old lady who gives her hiphop-styled grandson a ride to the store to get his smokes; there’s the crazy dude with the ratty, old Southern-Cross flag a’flappin’ from a whip-it antenna, a soggy smoke stuck in the corner of his toothless maw, and a miniature dog stuffed in a box at his feet; there’s the horrendously overweight smelly lady who sends people jumping for their lives as she charges full speed along crowded sidewalks; there’s the conga line of four or five Buddy-buggies (depending on the day) that do the same as the fat lady and laugh like it’s the best thing ever; and the dude who peels out of Starbucks and around the corner so fast that the first time I saw him I thought he was making a get-away from a robbery.
Life’s rich tapestry 🙂
Having dated a guy in a wheelchair, sometimes getting on the sidewalk just isn’t that easy. Some sidewalks don’t have a ramp built in at the corner, and a lot that do are narrow, too high, or poorly maintained. If someone in a wheelchair is alone, it can be a case of ‘use the road’ or ‘get stuck or tip over’, especially if it’s non-motorized.
Having said that, scooterwad there was probably being an asshole.
i think i live in your neighborhood foth, that was very descriptive, thanks
i see an old man on his scooter going along side Burnside Drive fairly regularly!
Anyone ever notice how majority of the people who drive these motorized chairs are not actually elderly, or physically impaired at all?
I mean I can get lazy like everyone else, but sometimes its too much
mr. fat where are you?
Pocketrocket, what medical school did you get your MDs at? How do you know whether they are physically impaired or not? You can get a used car a lot cheaper than what these motorized wheelchairs and scooters cost.
Quick Commissioner Gordon. Send the (Nice Goin) Fat Signal
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I am not a doctor Tim, but one thing i do know is that there are an awful lot of people driving scooters out there… are you going to tell me that every one of those people need to have one and that they couldnt walk down the aisle of the grocery store like every one else? I’m all for the physically challenged and elderly driving them.
Some people have medical problems that mean that if they had to walk everywhere they would get tired way faster than the rest of us. Not everyone uses a wheelchair because they can’t walk at all. Do you even know how much they cost? Pretty sure people generally aren’t buying them because they’re “too lazy to walk.”
The cheapest I saw on line was $1,500 with an average of $3,500 and many more much higher, which is a lot of dough to shell out. Now some medical insurance will cover some of the costs but you have to get a doctor to sign off on it.
Hmmm…..so you are saying that a motorized wheelchair doesn’t require licensing?
Hmmm…..interesting.
A guy could save alot on fuel with an electric car….um…er…..wheelchair. 🙂
For the last time Sebastard, I won’t go out with you!
Go try one of Jerry’s Kids.
“Just drive over them….they’re already physically broken and handicapped…..what are a few more broken bones and a severed spine going to do to them. They shouldn’t have been in the road in the first place.”
Someone in a wheelchair WAS hit on the road, you idiot. They DIED.
It was on the news so it actually happened!
Dumbshit.
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Having dated a guy in a wheelchair
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Oh HI… (bats eyelashes, while doing a sweet wheelie)
And a lot of fun at 10mph and a 25 mile range on the top models.
paul, man, you gotta stop fucking these dudes up. be a nice little wheel popper and say you’re sorry.otay?
These are PEOPLE you are talking about. They can’t help it if they need a wheelchair. Maybe someday you will need one, and you will appreciate a little empathy and patience. C’mon now, show your humanity. Please.
Some may not have a medical condition, they may be just like some who sport disabled stickers, namely they’re FAT FUCKING LEVIATHANS TOO LAZY TO WALK.
Who be you, Trisha Lou?
*Facepalm*
my boss gave me the day off, this is fun
Your boss is a nifty fella!
I know who isn’t a nifty fella….
zuckerberg.
he wants everyone to know everyone and absolve all the anonymity the web has to offer….
and damn you coast for helping him!
You’re Heinrich Himmler all over again.
May your building suddenly fall victim to a sinkhole leading straight to where the pope managed to stuff purgatory…. out of sight… out of mind.
Oh, but not before you hold another contest I can win…
I LOVE those!
http://media.giantbomb.com/uploads/2/28416…
I couldn’t find the clip of Lily Tomlin doing a wheelie, so this kid will have to do 😉
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NJvgT60-mk
Perhaps the wheelchairs in the streets could trade places with the bikes on the sidewalks. At least the in-the-street wheelchairs have the balls to hit the pavement; bikes on sidewalks appear to be most often straddled by dip-shits who have a motorized vehicle complex: “Pedestrians! Make way for the dick on wheels because if they’re on the sidewalk they’re the fastest-moving objects, and therefore have right-of-way!!” There’s nothing quite like getting a dirty look from someone on a bike driving down the sidewalk because you couldn’t get far enough out of their way.
The saddest thing I’ve ever seen: some giant dude dressed in the best official-biker-spandex gear with his arse stuck in the air like a tom cat in heat barreling down the centre of the sidewalk on Bell Rd. giving dirty looks to anyone willing to make eye contact.
Bikes need plates to remind people what they are and where they should be.