Have just Googled this and found a BBC article from 2006, which states that 'unpowered scooters and skateboards' cannot legally be used on footpaths or pavements. But it adds that the Police deem it 'difficult to enforce' Why? You just stop the offender and charge him/her. So presumably, even without his mobile phone, this youngster was technically breaking the law. The trouble is that the Police are too lenient and decline to act when such behaviour occurs. Result: people do just what they please. My friend's 86 yr old mum was knocked flying by a woman positively whizzing along in Sainsbury's on a mobility scooter. She broke her arm, but the culprit zoomed off and was never identified. Doesn't this all boil down to consideration for others?