Showing posts with label scooters. Show all posts
Showing posts with label scooters. Show all posts

Friday, July 29, 2022

Time for another "Florida Man" story: Florida man charged with DUI after driving scooter into Walmart shelves.

NY Post: Florida man charged with DUI after driving scooter into Walmart shelves.

Aaron Gregory, 39, was charged with a DUI after running into shelves and nearly mowing down Walmart customers in Melbourne, Florida.

Don’t drink and scoot!

A Florida man was charged with DUI for allegedly zipping around on a motorized shopping cart while wasted in a Walmart, according to police.

Aaron Gregory, 39, swerved through the store in Melbourne, ran into shelves and nearly mowed down customers on Sunday, WFTL reported, citing cops.

When police were called to the store, Gregory was allegedly hauling an open bottle of Smirnoff vodka inside a backpack in the basket of the scooter.

He had “glassy eyes,” smelled like alcohol, and refused to take a breathalyzer test, police said.

The boozehound on wheels was arrested for DUI, disorderly intoxication and possession of an open container.

I dunno, I'm suspicious. This could be a case of mistaken identity and the scooter driver may indeed have been Paul Pelosi, Sr.

Saturday, July 13, 2019

San Diego Beech Street parking fiasco. Downtown Mobility Plan failure. Forgot Dutch Boy paint?


Confusion and chaos are how some people are describing driving and parking in Little Italy on Thursday after crews began adding new bike lanes downtown.

A mess -- nobody knows what’s going on,” said resident Corry Candland.

The bike lanes located on Beech Street have a row of cars parked next to the curb, and next to those cars is what looks like a bike lane, and next to that is another row of parked cars.
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It’s going to be much better defined," said Jose Ysea, a spokesperson for the City of San Diego.
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And it touches on, of course, the climate action plan: Getting people out of vehicles and onto bicycles,” said Ysea.
Government - any government - getting something right the first time? A pipe dream; a fantasy of unicorns, mermaids and pixies.

"It's going to be much better defined." Uh-huh. First, government fucks up whatever it is they implement. Then...they have to fix what they did because no real foresight and planning was conceived in the first place.

It's always a good idea mixing 4,000 pound vehicles with lighter objects, like people on scooters and bicycles. It's for the Climate Action Plan. What could go wrong?

The "other two" painters are elected public servants.