I can't be the only one that finds this funny

[Guest MarvinisaLunatic]

Here

 

.. San Francisco protesters from carrying signs saying: "Stop the Segway slaughter," and "Segway: Zero Emissions, Senior Killer."

 

The thing hasn't killed anyone, much less a senior citizen. I think they should ban people from walking on sidewalks then, since you never know what a person who is just walking down the sidewalk could do. This has to be the funniest thing I've read today..ok maybe the 2nd funniest after I learned that Sony finally stopped making BetaMax machines..

[Guest Retro Rob]

"It really did scare a lot of our people," Price said. "If that machine comes down the sidewalk behind you, you never know what it's going to do. It could be disastrous."

 

HAHAHAHA I'm with you on this one, Marvin.

[Guest kkktookmybabyaway]

Oh Lord.

 

Yeah, and have these scooter people doing their thing on the road. Makes sense to me. Then again, a San Fran. person struck by a vehicle doesn't seem like a bad thing.

 

However, I find it funny that panhandlers have more rights in the City by the Bay than scooter folk when it comes to sidewalks...

[Guest Ozymandias]

This was my favorite part:

 

The defining moment for the Senior Action Network appears to have been an early August meeting with the Segway people, who brought a machine to the group's board meeting.

 

The group's executive director, Bob Livingston, tried to get on the machine and ended up plowing into furniture. Price said the board voted unanimously to oppose any and all use of the scooter where the elderly might encounter one.

 

Just imagining the looks on the faces of the board members witnessing this.... Excuse me a moment.

 

*leaves room and collapses in laughing fit*

 

Anywho, the Seniors are right, these things DON'T belong on sidewalks - they just need better signs.

[Guest J*ingus]

The Segway wasn't such a great idea in the first place in my opinion, but this is just alarmist nonsense. Bicycles move at a much higher rate of speed than these scooters.

[Guest Jobber of the Week]

Sigh.. This is just typical San Franciscism. I see it daily. People can protest about anything there.

 

And those street people are losing rights faster nowadays. We've finally recently decided that they do not have the right to pee on the street in public. Really, that happened just recently.

[Guest TJH]

I propose an upper age limit of 85. Who's with me?

[Guest Olympic Slam]

Sigh.. This is just typical San Franciscism. I see it daily. People can protest about anything there.

 

And those street people are losing rights faster nowadays. We've finally recently decided that they do not have the right to pee on the street in public. Really, that happened just recently.

That's the way things are here on the Left Coast. Wherever you go there's ALWAYS a group of unwashed people protesting something stupid. Do these activists (outside of the eldery) have, you know, jobs?

[Guest EricMM]

Horace Hinshaw, spokesman for the Postal Service in San Francisco, said there have been no problems with the Segways being tested in the city. The only reported accident nationally appears to have been in Atlanta -- where an employee of one of the several agencies there that use the scooters fell off.

[Guest Jobber of the Week]

That's the way things are here on the Left Coast. Wherever you go there's ALWAYS a group of unwashed people protesting something stupid. Do these activists (outside of the eldery) have, you know, jobs?

Actually, it's not that big a problem outside of San Francisco & Berkley.

 

Many do have jobs, some don't. However, there's a lot of national-known ones who have made it their job. See guys like Jesse Jackson to understand what I'm talking about.

[Guest Olympic Slam]

That's the way things are here on the Left Coast. Wherever you go there's ALWAYS a group of unwashed people protesting something stupid. Do these activists (outside of the eldery) have, you know, jobs?

Actually, it's not that big a problem outside of San Francisco & Berkley.

 

Many do have jobs, some don't. However, there's a lot of national-known ones who have made it their job. See guys like Jesse Jackson to understand what I'm talking about.

Ah yes, Jesse Jackson. Master of the shakedown