Some are already souping them up so they can get to church faster:

Image of improved scooter, pops

makes me proud to live in kentucky. Lexington represent!

Shriners?

Reminded me of this rant:

Seniors on scooters (pops)

Where are these old farts getting the money for all these scooters?

This is a frightened city. Over these houses, over these streets hangs a pall of fear. Fear of a new kind of violence which is terrorizing the city. Yes, gangs of old ladies attacking defenseless, fit young men.

/Had to be posted.

Got nothin' on shriners.

TheRealist
With the "dixie" showing in the background of that pic it's obvious that picture needs to be in a Jeff Foxworthy joke or make a special appearance on the Blue Collar Comedy show...

Me thinks the government should subsidize nitrous systems. It would be entertaining to watch...
/one ticket, please

I would scooter them into a box and shove them.


/dead already?

Damn, skinink. I think I first heard that one 20 years ago.

On topic: This is not good. That big of an increase in scooter users is bound to translate into more bumped shins and mashed toes in the supermarkets. Have you seen these people try to drive cars?

Actually, I am all for them if they make their lives easier

Like night of the living dead - but lazier

/sorry

So instead of farmers markets, they crash into solitary vegetable stands?

Mayor Doug Pugh believes the government helped create the problem and should help pay for the sidewalks that would solve it.

your tax dollars at work, people...

My Triumph Rocket III eats those thing for snacks.

www.triumphrocket.com

mmmmmm...scooterlicious

Round here we call'em Gerry Davidsons or Parkdale Caddilacs (you got to know the neighbourhood).

No, no, no! Get these lazy, fat farks off the scooters and onto a bicycle or, gasp, make them walk!

Free from the government? They must have called this guy!

Scooterville.

That's right. I just like sayin' it:

Sssscooterville.

Man,sounds like the A.L.F. where I work...One day,this oldster hadn't gotten his eyedrops yet,and zipped out the side door on his Lark...and where he thought there was a ramp,he went down the stair side toward the pool. We called him "Daredevil" Jack after that.

Most of the time I see them in department stores and they are not that old. It takes too much exercise for these overweight primates to get around. They roll out of their big ass SUV into the waiting electric scooter and then terrorize the shoppers. And yes, I have seen them get up and walk around to get to something that is out of reach on the shelves. Lazy bastards.

"...Medicare payments for the devices rose from $22.3 million in 1995 to $666.5 million in 2003."

$666.5 Million? This is obviously of the Devil!

And why is it that these people need walkways & throughways, but the people who've been walking to those locations on their own two legs have had to do without? Perhaps it's because they're healthy but poor? Or maybe they are slightly less selfish than the majority of one & two issue codger voters in this country.

Do they become mono-focused ninnies at a certain age, or were they always so simple minded at the voting booth, and that's why we have the government we deserve?

flaming Mods.

No, not you guys... I mean Mods, as in 'Mods and Rockers'

/oh, please yourselves

"I feel like they get pretty close to us. You've got to keep your eyes on the road and on the people, especially at intersections. If they don't offer to wave you across, you'd better sit still and wait your turn."
that's right, wait your turn or we'll run your old arse over
/don't owe them a damn thing
//realize how bitter I sound

luckyeddie

not this:


but this:

Diogenes:

i remember that one... grannies mug a biker then bury
him under a pile of leaves....

and there was this nugget in another episode...

"And where do you stand on today's Youth?"
"Right beneath the 'ead!"

(sten-armed housewife standing on kid with one foot on
his neck)

I would rather have my Vespa called a "moped" than have these cripple-mobiles called "scooters".

/Not a mod.
//Wish I had Phil's Rocket 3, but probably wouldn't brag about it on the Internet if I did.

"It would be a lot safer," Pugh said. "These aren't like little motorcycles -- they shouldn't have to be on the roads."
He thinks they shouldn't have to be on the roads?!? WTF man?
When I ride my bicycle I have to be in the street. These lazy biatches can damn well drive in the street too.

/and please let the old drivers hit the old scooterers and kill each other off.

Auto drivers have been monopolizing transportation infrastructure/spending for far too long.

Scooters, cyclists and pedestrians have had to take a backseat to these homicidal maniacs for too long.

I applaud these seniors and their guts.

I ride my bike on the road all the time (daily) -- im tired of feeling like im going to get run down on *MY* streets because some jerk feels he's entitled to the roads just because he has a 2000lb car around him.

oh, and suburbanite-morons causing sprawl make the whole thing worse.

Get used to it, folks. Generation Gray will be demanding more - and biatching about what they don't get - for the next 40 years.

"Obviously, they don't care if we get where we're going or if we get killed going there," she said.

I agree with whoever they is. Screw scooters on the sidewalks, and old people too.
Yes, I'm young and think old people need to get out of the way. Although, perhaps, if they had to prove that they needed the scooter beyond going long distances or somesuch thing that I'm not going to figure out, that might help reduce the number of drivers, and thus avoid problems like this. Maybe they should be required to get a license for it.

I've seen an old lady in my neighborhood driving one of these is the street as if it were a car.

It was bad enough that she did it in the two lane residential roads, but then I saw her in the middle of one lane of a four lane thru street.

I should mention there are sidewalks on both sides of the streets around here; she just chose not to use them.

She either got run over or her family took the scooter away, because I haven't seen her since.

ps. this is in florida, land of the old.

cleverloginname

I also ride a bike to work every day, in Southern California (home of the executive talking on his cell phone and sipping his latte while not particularly interested in the direction of travel of his SUV). I have a near miss at least once a day with some car almost hitting me. And I still think old people who take scooters in the street are nuts. They're slower and less maneuverable than a bike, which means that they're much more likely to get hit than you or me.

Oh, and no one is more entitled to the road than anyone else, and that includes you and your bike. Cyclists can be just as big of a problem as drivers. If you paid taxes, you paid for the road - everyone should share it.

I used to work for Auto Trader magazine. We actually would get people wanting to list these scooters with us in the car or motorcycle books.

Forsythe P. Jones That's funny as shiat. You really needed a video camera.

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I have been to this shiathole town. Like everwhere else in east kentucky its full of morbidly obese ignorant unemployed liberals who exist on public assistance. The sad thing here is the reason most of these people are on scooters is simply because they are so damn fat. Its not like they lost a leg in the war, they are just too damn lazy to haul their own massive chainsmoking ass around walmart while they ash into the meat freezer.

They should all be rendered as soap.

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The University of North Texas actually went on the air as KUNT but quickly changed to KNTU. Dammit.


That is an urban legend. When the radio station started the name of the school was North Texas State University. There is no reason for the name to have been KUNT. It's a funny little anecdote they tell incoming freshman during orientation. Apparently, some of the little buggers actually believe it.

WTF? I like that boobie, though. That slideshow is pretty good! :)