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O-t"s take on electric motorized scooters/mopeds
Posted on 10/3/24 at 11:40 pm
Posted on 10/3/24 at 11:40 pm
Personally, I hate them. Mostly because I think they're not safe. Or at least not safe to turn your 9-14 y/o loose on one (often without a helmet). On the street they're a Menace to cars. On the sidewalk, pedestrians. Tonight, my beliefs on the matter were reinforced.
I had to preface these remarks with those. My kid had a band concert tonight and my wife and I rolled up on the school, we noticed a bit if commotion next to one of the parking lots. Turns out one of the kids from the school on an electric moped had collided with a road sign in the park strip. He'd been on the sidewalk and clipped it with his handle bars. He was riding west and had gotten blinded by the setting sun. Had a nasty laceration on his face and was bleeding badly. It went from the outside of his eye to the corner of his mount and was into the subcutaneous fat layers.
We parked, I got the first aide kit out of the car and put direct pressure on the wound. I was a little worried about a broken orbital socket so I couldn't push too hard. The ambulance was there within a min or two of our arrival. Mom got there just after. She was pretty hysterical and my wife pulled her aside to help calm her down (the kid started to freak out when mom did. The kid was 11 and in the 6th grade. Tomorrow is his Bday.
After the concert, my wife called the children's hospital where they took him. He's going to be ok (eventually.) No concussion, no broken bones. The doc said the helmet significantly reduced the kids injuries. They were taking him to emergency reconstructive surgery on his face. Hate it for the kid.
Anyway, just had to share/vent. If you're considering one of these for your kids think long and hard.
I had to preface these remarks with those. My kid had a band concert tonight and my wife and I rolled up on the school, we noticed a bit if commotion next to one of the parking lots. Turns out one of the kids from the school on an electric moped had collided with a road sign in the park strip. He'd been on the sidewalk and clipped it with his handle bars. He was riding west and had gotten blinded by the setting sun. Had a nasty laceration on his face and was bleeding badly. It went from the outside of his eye to the corner of his mount and was into the subcutaneous fat layers.
We parked, I got the first aide kit out of the car and put direct pressure on the wound. I was a little worried about a broken orbital socket so I couldn't push too hard. The ambulance was there within a min or two of our arrival. Mom got there just after. She was pretty hysterical and my wife pulled her aside to help calm her down (the kid started to freak out when mom did. The kid was 11 and in the 6th grade. Tomorrow is his Bday.
After the concert, my wife called the children's hospital where they took him. He's going to be ok (eventually.) No concussion, no broken bones. The doc said the helmet significantly reduced the kids injuries. They were taking him to emergency reconstructive surgery on his face. Hate it for the kid.
Anyway, just had to share/vent. If you're considering one of these for your kids think long and hard.
This post was edited on 10/4/24 at 7:56 am
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Posted on 10/3/24 at 11:42 pm to Lonnie Utah
Keep them in a bubble!
Posted on 10/3/24 at 11:46 pm to yellowfin
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Keep them in a bubble!
We were talking after the concert with the patents of some kids on his bike team. At least on a bike, the motor doesn't have unlimited power....
Posted on 10/3/24 at 11:49 pm to yellowfin
maybe keep them inside playing X-box
Posted on 10/3/24 at 11:57 pm to Lonnie Utah
Just don't store the extra batteries under your kid's bed. Or, anywhere in your house or garage for that matter.
Posted on 10/4/24 at 12:04 am to Lonnie Utah
They are good for us old guys for hunting. I can’t carry 50 pounds of shite miles into the woods and be worth a shite anymore
Posted on 10/4/24 at 12:04 am to TrueTiger
Jaxxson and Braaydon have grown up in a world full of pussies. (Their parents aren't far off either.) Approaching 50 I've realized that Gen X are the last parents who still remember and parent like we were raised (with common sense). I've seen it in our little town when the millennial parents are bitching on Facebook about tweens driving golf carts around town. Scooters and Mopeds were the generally accepted ways for kids who couldn't afford cars to get around. These parents of kids currently entering their teen years have no idea how much harm has been done by turning them into bubble kids. I am dumbfounded that a decade has seen this Idiocracy level of devolution.
Regardless, they deserve a firm kick in the arse for letting their kids drive one of them before they have an understanding of avoiding danger.
Regardless, they deserve a firm kick in the arse for letting their kids drive one of them before they have an understanding of avoiding danger.
Posted on 10/4/24 at 12:40 am to Lonnie Utah
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Had a nasty laceration on his face and was bleeding badly. It went from the outside of his eye to the corner of his mount and was into the subcutaneous fat layers.
You just broke 3 HIPPA laws.
Posted on 10/4/24 at 3:29 am to Lonnie Utah
Anything motorized can be dangerous if used improperly or if involved in an accident. With those types of vehicles there is nothing between you and what you hit except maybe a helmet. So they can be very dangerous, but we all cannot live in a bubble. Sometimes as humans we need to touch the hot stove to learn the dangers of life.
11 might be a bit young to ride anything motorized unmonitored by adult supervision. But sometimes other kids by way of other parents get away with the stupidity and lack of supervision, and create onus that I want Johnny got this so I want this too, and I want to ride it like them.
There are several trashy kids in my neighborhood that race 4 wheelers wide open down residential streets. One of them even was lying back and not paying attention to the street luckily it did not end in an accident.
Posted on 10/4/24 at 3:54 am to LegendInMyMind
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Just don't store the extra batteries under your kid's bed. Or, anywhere in your house or garage for that matter.
Or bring into an elevator
Posted on 10/4/24 at 3:57 am to Lonnie Utah
I’ve a nice electric scooter. I take it to the beach all the time. It’s awesome.
Posted on 10/4/24 at 4:13 am to Lonnie Utah
This kid is going to have an awesome scar and get all the chicks. Best thing that ever happened to him. Mom was just freaking out because she is going to be a grandma in a couple of years.
This post was edited on 10/4/24 at 6:12 am
Posted on 10/4/24 at 4:17 am to Lonnie Utah
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Mom.got there just after. She.was pretty hysterical
Why do people think this is helpful in any way, shape or form?
Posted on 10/4/24 at 4:32 am to Lonnie Utah
Had a bad accident once with a gas powered moped when I was pretty young. When you're an idiot, it doesn't matter how it's powered, going fast is going to cause a problem.
Posted on 10/4/24 at 6:09 am to Lonnie Utah
I don't mind them for kids, but adults I've seen riding them are cringe as hell
Posted on 10/4/24 at 7:16 am to Lonnie Utah
We used to build giant, rickety ramps on the steepest part of the cul-de-sac and get going as fast as we could before launching it. There were no trial runs or foam pits or anything…and we’d fight to be the first dumbass who braved it.
Running into street sign in a parking lot on a motorized scooter just sounds semi-retarded. There is no being blinded and randomly heading in that terrible direction long enough to gash your face on something that is stationary…unless you’re drunk or blind or simply not all there.
Running into street sign in a parking lot on a motorized scooter just sounds semi-retarded. There is no being blinded and randomly heading in that terrible direction long enough to gash your face on something that is stationary…unless you’re drunk or blind or simply not all there.
Posted on 10/4/24 at 7:36 am to Lonnie Utah
quote:Was it French?
We parked, I got the first aide kit out of the car and put direct pressure on the wound.
Posted on 10/4/24 at 7:52 am to Lonnie Utah
Coming back and re-reading the OP and replies, I think that it's not the scooters that annoy me so much as it is the parents who turn their kids loose on them. I mean I get the freedom and I get the convivence, but you also have to have some discussion as to the potential hazards with them. And this is not to mention a talk about the rules of the road (or sidewalks as the case may be). The machine is mindless, let's hope the riders aren't as well.
ETA: I forgot to add in the OP, that the kid hit the sign with enough for to completely break the front fork off the moped. It spilled oil all over the sidewalk. One of the more naive kids that walked up from the school said, "Man, that's a lot of blood!" I had to explain to him it was oil.
This was almost the exact machine. Apparently they go for about $2K.
ETA: I forgot to add in the OP, that the kid hit the sign with enough for to completely break the front fork off the moped. It spilled oil all over the sidewalk. One of the more naive kids that walked up from the school said, "Man, that's a lot of blood!" I had to explain to him it was oil.
This was almost the exact machine. Apparently they go for about $2K.
This post was edited on 10/4/24 at 7:59 am
Posted on 10/4/24 at 7:53 am to Lonnie Utah
They are perfect for riding around college campuses but I agree with op. Not safe for young kids
I found one abandoned in the servitude behind my house. Use it to bounce from tailgates all over campus
I found one abandoned in the servitude behind my house. Use it to bounce from tailgates all over campus
Posted on 10/4/24 at 8:02 am to Gaston
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We used to build giant, rickety ramps on the steepest part of the cul-de-sac and get going as fast as we could before launching it
On cheap bikes that came from JCPenney's, Sears or the local Western Auto Hardware store. Just riding those things around without them falling apart or the brakes failing was a miracle in and of itself!
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