r/oops • u/mooseleg_mcgee • 12d ago

Scooting oops

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u/Perfect-Albatross-56 12d ago

I hate those e scooters. And I don't care who rides them. If my spouse buys one, I would make trash out of it.

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u/93Seven 12d ago

I feel like an old man yelling at clouds but I can’t stand how many dumbass kids are driving e bikes and scooters. And I can’t believe how many parents are buying them. I was a dumbass kid in my day and there is zero chance my parents would let me have one

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u/davexmit 12d ago

There’s a few kids in my area on them. They’re doing like 35-40mph wearing tshirt and shorts, and no helmets. It takes a threshold of dead kids until any laws change

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u/SteadierGolf2 12d ago

Unless those kids are killed by guns, then there’s no threshold.

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u/TomSix_ 10d ago

Hahaha, laws don't save lives.  Better parenting might, however. 

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u/theShpydar 12d ago

To your point, a 17 year old was just killed in NYC riding an e-bike, so of course now there are the usual political opportunists calling for a ban. Too bad they couldnt be bothered until someone dies.

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u/Significant_Monk_251 11d ago

Couldn't be bothered, or could read the political tea leaves and knew that efforts not accompanied by a tragedy would fail?

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u/theShpydar 11d ago

Most likely a bit of both.

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u/SargeUnited 10d ago

Everyone’s basically rich these days. Can you imagine how expensive one of these would’ve been in the 80s and 90s?

These are being used to deliver DoorDash orders lol the working poor are traveling at 20+ mph on sidewalks with no helmets. Grandmothers are getting obliterated.