bought a new type of scooter  By  fireball12 (Read 936 times)

The funniest thing occurred with I brought it to City Hall. The City said, that must be registered and insured. I said, no, because I am considered a pedestrian while operating it. They laughed and said, no, you are not a pedestrian. I said, it is a mobility device. They said nothing. They asked me to feel out paperwork, made me prove insurance, asked to copy my drivers license and asked if I had a disabled placard. Well, I came home angry, because the City would not listen to me on it being used for a mobility device. The device is called a OPDMD device. So I wrote the City a letter explaining OPDMD devices and they are similar to a wheelchair and when operated by a mobility disabled person they are under different rules than a person without a disability. That they may not have to be registered, nor insured since looked at as a device verses a vehicle. That the City could only ask if I have a State Disability placard and not the extent of my disability. That they must allow me to go anywhere the public goes. Indicating a pedestrian, because illustrations show a man shopping in a store on a OPDMD device Segway. The DOJ put this into effect March 15, 2010.
I could imagine the City of Belle scratching their heads saying, What the ----. See, why I bought this little electric scooter was to ride on the new Rock Island Trail by the State Parks. The State Parks had already said it was a OPDMD device. The City of Belle probably never looked at the new rules. I had planned on riding some in Belle too. Too the drug store, to the City Park, to a restaurant, to perhaps buy a Coke. Not a lot of riding around, but some.
No matter how many times I read the DOJ requirements, the more I laugh, because Belle has no way out of it. I mean, that is to funny. But better to find out about new rules now, than to discover them when the trail opens and someone with a electrical device stops and get written up for no license nor insurance and the City get sued.

Now the bicycle problem was explained. The reason I can ride a scooter, is because of the non movement. See, spasticity is a movement disorder caused by brain injury, strokes, MS, cerebral palsey... It is when signals from the brain get confused and instead of the foot moving it begins to shake. Or knee shakes verses doing what is normal. On the scooter the foot and leg are resting on a foot board and thus no spasticity when operating a scooter. So it is a movement problem that creates spasticity. But when the foot is resting the spasticity does not become active and when pedaling a bicycle it does show up.