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    Quote Originally Posted by BobL View Post
    Perhaps Sawstop can do a deal and have them fitted so that explosive bolts stop them when they come into contact with another person?


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    You should start negotiations with the makers Arthur! Excellent idea.
    Cheers, Ern

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    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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    Quote Originally Posted by DavidG View Post
    Nice. I will install one on the front of mine to
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    people who step in front of me.

    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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    Quote Originally Posted by doug3030 View Post
    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.
    this sounds a lot like a darlek to me




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    regards from Alberta, Canada

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    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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    Quote Originally Posted by DavidG View Post
    I need a good set of air horns.......
    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.

    Doug
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    Doug
    I wrote a reply but decided it was not worth it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by DavidG View Post
    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.
    that's what pedestrians do, it's both the advantage (people can walk around you) and frustration (the ones who stop after taking just one step off the escalator) of being a pedestrian

    I need a good set of air horns.......
    regards from Alberta, Canada

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    Quote Originally Posted by Scott View Post
    Sure, it's a callous comment but why should I beat around the bush? I'm all for these scooters for individuals who have a genuine disability. But why shouldn't we discuss obesity in the same breath as mentioning mobility scooters?

    Secondly, have you seen how BIG and FAST those things go? Users are driving them FULL PELT through shopping centres, along footpaths and anywhere else which has a smooth surface. Why do motorised WHEELCHAIRS for the DISABLED go slower?

    I read an article in the paper the other day that the width of seats on mobility scooters has had to be expanded because people are getting bigger. In the U.S. McDonalds are building specific drive-thru lanes for Mobility Scooters.

    Obesity is an epidemic. Obese are using these scooters.

    What I'm really saying is that the incidence of mobility scooters is a sign of the times, especially where obesity is concerned. I'm not going to sugar coat the use of these things.

    I'm surprised you didn't throw in an Americanisation conspiracy also as an excuse for saying something daft.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Chippin Away View Post
    I'm surprised you didn't throw in an Americanisation conspiracy also as an excuse for saying something daft.
    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.

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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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    Quote Originally Posted by Scott View Post
    Just about every person I've seen riding those things is obese, sorry to say. Walking never hurt anyone. As they say, use it or lose it.
    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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