Personal Transportation

What people see as transportation are sometimes a lot different than what other people see as transportation. Let me give an example because even to me, that sounds a bit confusing. There is this old guy with a beard and baseball cap, and he travels everywhere on his Hover-Round scooter, and when I say everywhere, I mean he will actually drive it in the right lane of a traffic road, where he should be riding it around on the sidewalk. To him, that is his transportation - his small, land-craft that goes maybe five miles per hour...he rides in a thirty mile an hour traffic lane. Does he get ticketed for it? No.

Now-a-days, it's cool to drive a dirt bike around town. A recreational motorcycle primarily used in off-roading is now used on-road. That right there used to be illegal, license or no license, but I guess the law doesn't carry now. The popularity of riding a dirt bike around town was sparked when Tommy Vercetti, main character in the popular video game "Grand Theft Auto: Vice City" - the fourth installment in the GTA franchise, could jump on an unmanned dirt bike or steal it by kicking/stabbing/shooting a person off one, and driving it around. What was considered leisure fun or a better way to get through traffic in fictionalized Staunton Island (like Staten Island, NY) in the game, has now been modernized in the real world, and is seen as a...quick and better way to get around in the city. Does a person riding a dirt bike in the city get ticketed for it? No.

Join the fun now, kids!!! You thought those scooters were fun?! Or skateboards?! Now try Hover-round motorized disability assistance scooters!!! While driving to work, I witnessed two girls, about twelve, playing with their push-scooters, a little boy on his skateboard, and then trailing behind them, two kids had abducted a motorized Hover-round power chair, and were chasing the other three. Unbelievable! For one thing, I thought the only person who could ride in the motorized chair was the person with their doctor's permission? It's all cute and fun when grandpa or grandma is letting the kids ride on his/her lap while they circle around in the middle of the room, but minus the grandparent, and isn't it just theft? A person like myself would find it unsafe and negligent to go and let my kids or grand children go off riding around the neighborhood in my Hover-round. If they go too far, it could strand them out in some unknown neighborhood and they could get lost or worse, molested. Too many riders at a time on the power chair, and it could flip and burst into flames, serverely burning the children. I think at times, if the power chair is hit with projectiles or ram-rodded by a vehicle, it would just blow up, again, serverely burning the children. A vehicle could hit it and kill the children. After the vehicle hits it, the car flips in the air, striking other pedestrians or cars, causing a pile up or again, severely burning everyone in a flaming hell that could be prevented. This isn't coming from a paranoid freak, but a concerned citizen. I find it to be my responsibility to warn these parents of possible fatalities that would most likely ensue. The Hover-round is not a play thing, just like my parents told me exposed electrical sockets were not play things, cobras are not play things, wild dogs are not cute, teddy bears with switch-blades for hands are not cuddly, and fruitcake is toxic.

A message to the old guy on the Hover-round, the teenager on the dirt bike riding it in town, or the kids piling up on the Hover-round, thinking it's their personal automobile: other people don't watch their driving. Old man - I invision great and horrible pain in the future. Teenager on the dirt bike - It was rad when you did stunts for money on "GTAIII", "GTA: Vice City", and "GTA: San Andreas", but that was a video game...it was only cool in the video game. Continue to be a loser that can't and won't get laid. Finally, children on the Hover-round: one word - molestation or two words - burning children.