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Segway Banned In San Francisco
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.
Let's clarify a few things: 1.) in most municipalities, it is ILLEGAL to ride a bicycle on the sidewalk, due in large part to the hazard to pedestrians. Rollerbladers move about as fast as a sprinting human, and as such represent a lower hazard.
A Segway, I'm guessing, weighs in the neighborhood of 75 pounds. At the low training speed of 12mph, it moves as fast as an Olympic sprinter. 75 pounds of Segway + ~200 pound rider = 275 pounds. Getting hit by one of these would be like getting hit by an NFL linebacker on a blitz.
Simple physics are enough to get it outlawed, and I'm hoping that my municipality -- Minneapolis -- will do the same thing.
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whadda ya expect from a buncha wimpy pacifist commie hippies anyway.Anything fun must be unfair to the masses and we're all supposed to have equality.So, in a kafka sort of way socialist democrats act as the handicapper general to make us all equal.Soon drivers will have to pay reparations for any animals they may have killed to PETA.Orwellian perspective: two legs good,two wheels Ba-a-a-ad! Y'know the old school punks had it right all along when they said "Hippies are BORING OLD FARTS" now they run 'Ferisco and most legislative districts in Cal.making electricity more expencive for the rest of us,Freedom closer to extinction in the name of sensitivity and Individuality impossible for future generations.HAHAHA they turned out more like their square parents than not and more like Nazis than any moron republican ever came close to.
I SAY IF THEY WONT LET YOU PUT SCOOTERS ON THE SIDWALK,PUT BIG F***ING HARLEY DAVIDSONS ON THE WALK AND ROLL OVER A HIPPIE LESBIAN BUNNYHUGGER AND TAKE CALIFORNIA BACK!
*Repent!Quit Your Job!Slack Off!The World Ends Tomorrow and You May Die!
public disobedenience [sic]
Oh, grow up, punk!
Hope you feel the same way after I clothesline you while you come vrooming past and the policeman who helps you to your feet issues you a ticket.
Public disobedience for a motor scooter! Now, how screwed up must the rest of your priorities be...?