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Segway Banned In San Francisco

Posted by timothy on from the you'll-walk-mister-and-like-it dept.

bhsurfer writes "The city of San Francisco has banned the Segway [CNN.com] from it's sidewalks before they've even arrived. Apparently Santa Cruz, Oakland and San Mateo are considering a ban as well. What a bunch of spoilsports...or are they? Any thoughts on this?" According to the article, hiring high-powered lobbyists may have backfired. but the city claims safety concerns are behind the decision.

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  1. Re:makes sense by bdr1 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Segwii???

    Beofre inventing plural forms of proper nouns, get your English straight.

    The phrase is "nip them in the bud", as in preventing something from flowering. Althought "knit them in the butt" conjures up wonderful images of these aforementioned old ladies wielding deadly knitting needles.

    Perhaps you were thinking of a "stich in time"?

  2. it's a bad idea by SweetAndSourJesus · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    You don't have to be Kreskin to see that.

    They don't need "real user experience" because they know it's a bad idea from the start.

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  3. HELLO MODERATORS! by tps12 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Yes, I was not the first to mention "old ladies," but I was the first to point out that San Francisco has a bunch of hills, which was the whole point of the comment. "Redundant" my ass. If you want Redundant, here's something you've probably heard before: LAY OFF THE CHEAP $3 CRACK. Thx.

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  4. Re:Not sure how they could ban something... by joetee · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Please mod parent up.
    (Nice grafitti ya coined there!)

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  5. Never be a linux user? by valisk · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    EEk. That photgraph is pretty damning evidence I agree, I may have to remove debian from my sparc cluster and .. oh wait ... Urrggghhh whats this?.
    I think I will stay right where I am.

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