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Thread: About mobility "scooters"
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11th May 2013, 05:11 PM #16Skwair2rownd
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12th May 2013, 05:22 PM #17Hewer of wood
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You should start negotiations with the makers Arthur! Excellent idea.
Cheers, Ern
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12th May 2013, 05:26 PM #18
Nice. I will install one on the front of mine to
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people who step in front of me.
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12th May 2013, 06:08 PM #19
David, to make it fair there would have to be a conditional setting. Lets say that if you are travelling at 6 kmh or faster and hit someone it blows up your scooter. If you are travelling 2 kmh or slower and hit someone it blows them up. Between 2 and 6 kmh it adjudicates a debate between the pair of you and destroys the loser.I got sick of sitting around doing nothing - so I took up meditation.
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12th May 2013, 09:28 PM #20
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12th May 2013, 09:35 PM #21
Mobility scooters have a Hand speed control and also a maximum setting knob. (10K max).
I travel on max on the 1k trip to the shops (where possible) and set to about 1/3 setting when near people and about 1/10 when it is crowded.
It still amazes me that people will still walk up beside you and then step in front and start chatting to some one.
I need a good set of air horns.......
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12th May 2013, 10:38 PM #22
Yeah right...the moron in the motorised wheelchair or scooter who thinks they can blow a whistle and sound a horn so everybody who is patiently waiting their turn to get through the congested area or into the crowded event feels an obligation to get out of their way. I give people less fortunate than myself every consideration that is reasonable, but they are sitting down and the rest of us are standing up and we are all waiting to get to the same destination. Give me a break. in that situation, with me standing in pain and them sitting in relative comfort, it takes great restraint to not hit them over the head with my walking stick.
DougI got sick of sitting around doing nothing - so I took up meditation.
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12th May 2013, 10:47 PM #23
Doug
I wrote a reply but decided it was not worth it.
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12th May 2013, 10:47 PM #24
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21st May 2013, 03:24 PM #25Awaiting Email Confirmation
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21st May 2013, 04:22 PM #26Deceased
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You may not like that post but it's not such a daft thing to say. It may be view that you don't share but your criticism seems inappropriate.
Maybe you don't know that Scott is a dedicated nurse and worked in Emergency and in many other areas of our hospital system. So he has first hand experience of the difficulties that obesity causes to the many patient's health that he has nursed.
This may not be a specific Americanisation conspiracy but obesity was not such a crises before McDonalds and KFC brought their easy fast food outlets here.
Peter.
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21st May 2013, 07:38 PM #2721 with 26 years experience
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Scott,
What you need to remember is that not all people are obese by choice or by bad lifestyle.
A friend of mine is blind and suffers from ADHD, her lifestyle in terms of food etc is among the healthiest I have seen, she works, and as far as her conditions allow gets as much exercise and lives as healthily as she can.
Yet she is on the large side of obese.
As for the scooters, like everything else it is about attitude.
I live on Bribie Island and we have a hell of a lot of them round here, I've seen people use them with courtesy and manners, I've seen some people be complete and utter a**holes in them, and I saw a woman holding a 6 month old baby nearly get flattened by one when the old guy in it didn't look backwards before reversing.
The fact is that I could take something as innocuous as a sheet of printer paper and be a complete a**hole - it's all about attitude,
I will also state that it's not just scooters.
The last few months I've been seeing more and more motorised (both electric and I/C) push bikes on the footpath - I even saw one old man riding on the footpath a road going 50cc scooter, the scooter had no rego plate, he was wearing a foam push bike helmet and those scooters are capable of 50kph.
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21st May 2013, 07:51 PM #2821 with 26 years experience
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It's a good thing my brother doesn't read this forum.
Walking does hurt some people - my brother is about to turn 45, he played AFL and rugby league from his early teens through to his early 30's.
During that time he also raced motocross and worked as a plumber - he still does, and doing mainly domestic work most of his jobs simply don't have the space to use a mini excavator without trashing the customers garden so his digging is by shovel.
He is waiting on a double knee reconstruction, while he is waiting he still works, partly because his likes his work and partly because no one else will feed his family or pay his mortgage.
Walking for him is agony, to sit hear and see you say walking never hurt anyone.....
Mate, I respect you as a person, but in this instance your opinion is crap.
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