Want to keep old crippled people out of public sight? Here's how.

A medically prescribed mobility device: Can't drive it on the road, can't drive it on the sidewalk.

Archbold police ticket disabled man for driving scooter on sidewalk
13 ABC Toledo | June 30, 2014
www.13abc.com/story/25908412/archbold-police-ticket-disabled-man-for-driving-...

Controversy over Archbold man's use of motorized scooter
24 NBC Toledo | July 3, 2014
www.nbc24.com/news/story.aspx?id=1065998

Good grief, that's enough to make the good humor man scowl.  

Welcome to another facet of the, ’NANNY” State, (Country)

I’ll bet their are lawyers  Lining Up,
To Tear apart the City,  FOR FREE, on this one !

Let’s see:  I ‘CAN”  go 70 MPH with a S-40, down Main street,
where the speed limit is 30 MPH.
And If I AM  going 30 MPH, do I get a ticket, because I  ‘CAN” go 70???

(If it keeps raining out in Mn, I may post a joke on that)

A ‘few’ years ago, a ‘Local Cop’, would see, some 14-15 year olds,
running pure dirt bikes down a street, out on a Co road, to the gravel pit.
Let’s see, No DL,  No, Blinkers/Headlights, Driving wrong side of the road.
Yea,  LOTS of tickets, ‘Could’ be given.

Local Town fair. Some kids, in the shadows of a building,
Drinking 3.2 beer, smoking Cigs.
“Local” cop, would come, Dump out the beer, Step on the packs of cigarets,
Take the pitcher, and give it back to the local Fireman booth,
(Thus the kids, LOOSING, the .50 Deposit on the glass pitcher)

In a State, (then), where ‘fireworks’, were not allowed.
The ‘Local” cop, walked out on the trestle , taking the packs of  ‘Black Cats’,
And throwing them in the river.

A Warm summer night, 10:30 PM,  (After Curfew),
a, ‘Local” cop, pulling, (silently) up to a group of boys,
And saying:  “Time to go home now, Or do I need to tell, your fathers what you are doing”.

In a  December, in Minn, a group of boys, driving down the street,
(in a older brothers Convertible), top down, In Parkas,
With one, ’skiing’ behind the car, on the snow covered streets.
And the, ‘local’, Cop, cruised by, stopped, shook his head, then drove on!

Etc,  Etc,  Etc !!!!!!!!

The,  LAW, hasn’t changed.  It is the Police, that have changed.   !!!!!!!

Cops, who,  ""think"", they have,  BIG, Penises,
JUST, because they can write a  ’ticket’.

As the husband of someone with MS, I am going to chip in here. When a scooter became necessary for her to get around outside, she was stopped and ticketed by an officer who admitted he was not conversant with the laws regarding operation of a scooter on sidewalks. He came back the next day and tore up the ticket.
That said, I agree with the speed limit of 8 mph for scooters and motorized wheelchairs, and a scooter that goes faster than that has no place on public sidewalks. If you hit someone at 20 mph you could kill them. Handicapped people have the right to the same mobility as non-handicapped people, not the right to roar around at 20 mph on the sidewalk on something as big and heavy as a scooter or motorized chair.

arteacher wrote on 07/05/14 at 07:01:03:



Sorry, but I think that argument is utter nonsense. I doesn't make any difference how fast that scooter is capable of going, only how fast the person operating it is actually driving it. I can buy a motorcycle capable of 150mph +. That doesn't  automatically  entitle me to a ticket unless I'm riding it that fast when the speed limit is, say, 65. The guy in the news report didn't get ticketed for speeding, he got a ticket because his scooter was theoretically capable of breaking the law. That's bullcrap.

And I don't care what the stupid town ordinance says. It's just another law that creates a crime where no crime actually exists. Most laws in fact fall into that category.

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I said nothing of the sort. I think what I did say is pretty clear. I have no problem with speed limits, or restricting what kind of vehicles can be driven where. I DO have a problem with giving someone a ticket because what they happen to be driving/riding is CAPABLE of exceeding the speed limit, if they are not actually doing that. Please don't twist what I said in order to bolster an indefensible argument.

If you want to disagree with me ,fine. Just do it on the merits of the discussion, not by deliberately misrepresenting what I said.

how bout bikes on the sidewalk
legal here many do more than 8mph
btw see  motor chairs  also

Some are- I have seen a guy in an electric wheelchair going well over 8 mph on the sidewalk and yelling at people to "get the f**k out of my way", and causing pedestrians to jump out of his way.
Laws protect responsible people from irresponsible people.
BTW, in or city it is illegal to ride a bicycle with a wheel diameter of 20" or more on the sidewalk. The 20" stipulation is so that little kids can still ride their bikes on the sidewalk.

" I have no problem with speed limits, or restricting what kind of vehicles can be driven where."
He was ticketed for driving the wrong type of vehicle on the sidewalk ie one that would go over 8 mph.

I am guessing that,  EVERY,  49cc moped.
EVERY, Motorcycle.  EVERY, Car or truck,
Is,  Capable, of going OVER  30 MPH.

So you are driving down, ‘Main Street’,
at 29 MPH, (Where the posted Speed Limit is 30 MPH)

Then A policeman can give you a ticket?
(Because, you, ‘could’, go faster)

I would like to get one of those tickets !!!!!!
Cause then, I would be driving a  NEW  Cadillac, Esc a lade,
courtesy of the tax payers in that County or City.