I read in the Metro this morning that our glorious leaders are discussing whether or not to allow those Segway two wheeled scooter things to be allowed on British roads.
I have seen the Police in Tenerife using these things to glide along the seafronts watching for wrongdoing and they do look very amusing. We also saw a group of people using them to tour the old town part of Stockholm, and laughed heartily into our beer at the sound of them all piling into each other as they tried to negotiate the steep cobbled street next to the bar we were taking a break in.
But letting them loose on the streets of our fair capital?
One bod said “They can go on the roads, pavements and cycle lanes, I don’t see why we should be so far behind the rest of Europe in our thinking”
Well chuckles it’s like this. There are already a group in London who think that any flat surface is theirs and theirs alone. We don’t need arseholes on Segway scooters treating us like scum as well as bloody Cyclists.
Mind you, if both groups start getting in each others way we could have the pleasure of some interesting “street theatre” as Segway riders and cyclists come to blows over who has right of way.
Every cloud and all that……..