mobility scooters

[mousey9t]

i work in retail and the amount of problems we have with people on these mobility scooters ie almost running people over,hitting wrong button on there scooter and flying forward or reversing by mistake and end up knocking shelving and breaking stock! we even had to call an ambulance the other week cos a woman drove straight over a blokes foot,then got out of scooter and told us it was her husbands scooter she was just using it to do abit of shopping was nothing wrong with her!! does anyone else have probs with people in these scooters when out shopping?

[fat rascal]

too true mousey9t, they do my head in... the supermarket where i shop seem to have a cavalcade of them sweeping round the ailses... once i saw one old man career into an old lady pushing her into the dairy section... he didn't even say sorry, or stop to see if she was ok, they can be a menace!!

[Pippa68]

Someone in my town has been killed by a runaway mobility scooter. It would sound funny if it wasn't so tragic!

Around here (Gods Waiting Room) we get a lot of them on the road..yes, the road.

[Dollie]

I saw an elderly gent merrily chugging away along a busy and much-used road in my home town - he was practically riding the white line with a long stream of cars lagging behind him unable to pass on any side. He seemed totally oblivious to the havoc he was causing and how dangerous could that have been? Not sure if these scooter riders need a driving licence or anything but they really ought to have if they are going on the road.

[Dollie]

Mind you - having posted my last post and thinking about it - are they ALLOWED to go on the road ??

[mousey9t]

i think they should have to pass a driving test! we had a woman today waiting to be served and she had a little boy sitting in the footwell of hers!! also had a bloke go past on a scooter and shout at little girl to get out of his way then pushed her as he went past! madness!!

[fat rascal]

i think they should have to have training.. and maybe insurance?

[Pippa68]

No ~ they are not supposed to be on the road! some obviously think they are though..but to be honest they are a pain in the a$$ at the best of times on the pavement too.

Can't win can they..poor dears!

[spudqueen]

My uncle once hired one to do some town centre shopping, my Auntie was appalled with his driving, eg crossing the road at 0.00005mph then getting on the pavement and zooming off at about 30mph! Apparently he also got into a right pickle trying to reverse down an aisle in Woolies. Needless to say it was the one and only time he's been on one!

[joko]

a woman knocked on my door only the other day to ask if i was the nurse who had assisted her elderly mother a few days earlier who had been knocked down by a scooter (i wasn't)

the woman broke her other hip and had a heart attack a few days later

as far as i know she is ok, but shaken

apparently this woman was looking in a shop window and just backed into this woman to get a closer look at something

they are a menace

[~Wingnut~]

Well our neighbour took the headlight out on her son's car whilst on hers!!! ...and that was just trying to get out of her front gate!

[n00dles]

Like Pippa, I too live in Gods waiting room, so we perhaps have more than the national average.

We used to have one senior guy who terrorised people on the promenade in his..... he would go top speed straight at you, and if you didn't jump out the way would hurl abuse at you!! Not seen him in recent years, so perhaps he's either serving time or gone to meet his maker.

[Pippa68]

n00dles ~ I remember a guy like him..he almost mowed me & my daughter down!

You a Worthing resident per chance?

[mousey9t]

talking to my mum on phone about these scooters, and she says there is a woman that goes to her bingo who's blind in one eye, and also likes to have a few drinks who drives one of them!! this womans been reported but no one has done anything about her! now thats frightning!!

[Starman 2112]

I have a theory that some people have these scooters as they don't want to walk. Any views on that ABers.

[kazza12345]

i am agreeing witht he original post, despite the fact that i am a scooter user - i get them from motability when i go shopping, and have had lots of experience of bumping into people etc because the controls seem unpredictable. I have to say though, if you ever want to find out how badly shops are designed, get down to scooter/wheelchair level and you will be in for a huge shock. My pet hates are shops that pile things up on the ends of ailes, lift buttons that are too high to press and blooming queues for the checkout that are roped, nessecitaing a 180 degree turn in a foot of space - meaning you have to do a 47 point turn, turning up at the till to find you cant reach the chip and pin machine!

[mousey9t]

i think you maybe right there starman, may get one for going to work in myself :) no tax,no petrol,no traffic jams, wind in your hair and all that! lol

[n00dles]

Hi mousey9t

Sorry to nick your airspace

Hello Pippa

Got stuck on Q+P....Yes as one London cabbie said to me "the three B's - Bed Boredom and Bathchairs!!"

If I see you on the seafront I'll waive hello!!

[Pippa68]

Cheers n00dles! nice to know we are talking about he same old git..jeez was he horrible ~ my hubby lost all control of his faculties and threatened to deck him..unfortunately the old codger sped off too fast for hubby to catch him ;o)

[joko]

i must admit, if one hit me i'd be tempted to grab them and throw them on the floor - especially if they acted like i was the one who was out of order, (which seems to be the way they behave)

bad, i know but i'd be so furious and outraged i don't know if i could help myself!

however, god help them if they hit my mum or dad!!

[crisgal]

we have a lady in our town who uses hers like a car. I've seen her going round roundabouts! She was using the dual carriageway and moved into the right hand lane at the traffic lights! I was behind her (going slowly 'cus i know she's an idiot), and they don't have indicators and she didn't use any hand signals. It's a good job I was watching her closely!

My mum has one and she had to take out insurance against damage to property or injury to pedestrians. She was told by the company she bought it from on no account should she take it on the road. I presume everyone else has been told the same thing!