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Thread #145664   Message #3370342
Posted By: Don Firth
01-Jul-12 - 02:00 PM
Thread Name: BS: Mobile + skateboard: legal or not?
Subject: RE: BS: Mobile + skateboard: legal or not?
This has been floating around the internet for a few days at least. It tells its own story.

CLICKY

The texting pad was still in the driver's hand. (His head was in the back seat.)

Don Firth

P. S. While traveling in my electric wheelchair down the sidewalks of a nearby business district, I have to be alert at all times and ready to yell at someone, otherwise, they would wind up in my lap. Either texting or with a cell phone grafted to the side of their head, they seem to have no awareness of their surrounding area. I am really looking forward to the time when one of them walks, forehead first, into one of the metal light poles. They make such a satisfyingly mellifluos "BONNNNG!!"

I get sworn at by kids on skateboards (with their pants at half-mast) when I use the curb ramps to cross streets at intersections because they apparently think the city put the ramps in for their benefit.

I saw one skateboarder knock over an elderly woman just as she was coming out of a shop. By the time Medic One got there, the kid was long gone.

And I've seen one helluva lot of near misses.

Morons!!