According to The Gaithersburg Gazette http://www.gazette.net/stories/090507/gaitnew211044_32393.shtml a police oficer riding a @#%^^#*&() Segway contraption recently made an arrest:
"At about 2 p.m. a police officer riding a motorized Segway vehicle on a park path behind the high school saw a male on a motorcycle ‘‘dirt bike,” Wagner said. The officer pulled in front of the man’s motorbike, which was stopped, then approached him to say that motorized vehicles are not allowed on the path, Wagner said."
According to the story, the officer chased the man on foot and arrested him. Let's restate this:
"A police officer riding a motorized Segway on a path approached a man to tell him that motorized vehicles are not allowed on the path."
Did the Segway make a difference in this apprehension? Not likely. All it did was give a law enforcement officer an opportunity to break the very law he was enforcing. It gets worse. A Segway may not be classified as a motorized vehicle but as an EPMD or Electronic Personal Mobility Device. They are legal on sidewalks in MD thanks to an underhanded and misleading p.r. campaign by its inventors before it was even patented--in 35 states no less! But if a "dirt bike" can endanger you or me on a path or a sidewalk, why not a cop or anyone else on a Segway?
REMEMBER--ONE OF MAYOR MOYER'S PLANS TO FIGHT CRIME IS TO BUY OUR POLICE MORE OF THESE ^#&&$#)))@^%%+(( contraptions!!
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