Scooter riders: are they all this retarded?

[motorbyclist]

So on a fine sunny like today I was surprised to see so much parking available around uni - perhaps this had something to with the rain this morning... anywho, you can imagine my surprise to see a shiny new scooter parking in the walkway we are expressly prohibited from even riding through.

Yes, the paint on the ground was still there: "NO MOTORCYCLE OR SCOOTER PARKING - TOWAWAY", and the sign was still up: "NO MOTORCYCLES OR SCOOTERS PAST THIS POINT", and there was the scooter, parked in the walkway.

What a retard.

I mean, he had to ride past the available parking to get there ffs!

I contemplate moving it but have a lecture to attend so leave it up to unisafe to tow.

3 hours later, I again come across the scooter, still parked there.

This time I ave a closer look....

the steering lock isn't on....

there is no lock of any kind......

and the keys are in the fucking ignition.

SO, what to do? leave the keys there? take the keys and return them around midnight? maybe even hide the scoot for a few days?

The one thing this fashionable young asain did right was leave his name/number on his keychain, and didn't leave me waiting long for him to come collect his keys from me.

He's lucky the scoot wasn't stolen, wasn't towed, wasn't locked, wasn't knocked over, and that I only gave a brief rant as to how fucking stupid it was to park there.

I then had to get him to move it, as he went to just walk off, seemingly unfased by the whole "you're lucky it wasn't towed, let alone stolen" point I tried to get across.



I feel new sympathy for ACC campaigners.

[PirateJafa]

You fool, think of what that could have added to the SMC beer-fund.

[Danae]

I saw that scooter, but I was running around getting my CV and then going to the scooter shop.

Keys in the ignition....jeebus.

At the engineering carpark a scooter had parked in another scooter. I lold.

[motorbyclist]

You fool, think of what that could have added to the SMC beer-fund.

heck we could've even used it for the SMC beer run!

just pack some ice in under the seat with the "emergency kit" and have it come on rides as the TEC for "first aid"

[Danae]

heck we could've even used it for the SMC beer run!

just pack some ice in under the seat with the "emergency kit" and have it come on rides as the TEC for "first aid"

Haha! My scooter was acting as the beer-mobile while under stephen's..."care". Wouldn't be too hard to fit it with a chiller-like bag and fill it with icepacks and beer

[Squiggles]

Hanne needs a scooter XD

[PirateJafa]

I dunno Stephen, you might have trouble keeping up with her then.

[bogan]

i dunno bout all, but the majority, probably! clocked one doing over 30kmhr on the footpath delivering papers yesterday, got half a mind to complain to the standard about it.

[hospitalfood]

at least he didn't follow the rules

[p.dath]

You shouldn't touch other peoples property if it isn't interferring with you.

If it gets stolen or towed then that's their issue.

[bomma]

You shouldn't touch other peoples property if it isn't interferring with you.

If it gets stolen or towed then that's their issue.

there are bigger issues to worry about than simply the scooter being stolen or towed.....like us losing the PRIVILEGE of being allowed to park in CP36

[Danae]

Yepyep, any scooter/bike parked stupidly often gets blamed on the club....even if the rider doesn't belong to the club.

[ital916]

So on a fine sunny like today I was surprised to see so much parking available around uni - perhaps this had something to with the rain this morning... anywho, you can imagine my surprise to see a shiny new scooter parking in the walkway we are expressly prohibited from even riding through.

Yes, the paint on the ground was still there: "NO MOTORCYCLE OR SCOOTER PARKING - TOWAWAY", and the sign was still up: "NO MOTORCYCLES OR SCOOTERS PAST THIS POINT", and there was the scooter, parked in the walkway.

What a retard.

I mean, he had to ride past the available parking to get there ffs!

I contemplate moving it but have a lecture to attend so leave it up to unisafe to tow.

3 hours later, I again come across the scooter, still parked there.

This time I ave a closer look....

the steering lock isn't on....

there is no lock of any kind......

and the keys are in the fucking ignition.

SO, what to do? leave the keys there? take the keys and return them around midnight? maybe even hide the scoot for a few days?

The one thing this fashionable young asain did right was leave his name/number on his keychain, and didn't leave me waiting long for him to come collect his keys from me.

He's lucky the scoot wasn't stolen, wasn't towed, wasn't locked, wasn't knocked over, and that I only gave a brief rant as to how fucking stupid it was to park there.

I then had to get him to move it, as he went to just walk off, seemingly unfased by the whole "you're lucky it wasn't towed, let alone stolen" point I tried to get across.



I feel new sympathy for ACC campaigners.

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[Squiggles]

You shouldn't touch other peoples property if it isn't interferring with you.

If it gets stolen or towed then that's their issue.

Afraid it is our issue

[motorbyclist]

You shouldn't touch other peoples property if it isn't interferring with you.

If it gets stolen or towed then that's their issue.

if I wasn't an elected figurehead for the club, and hadn't spoken personally with campus security about that specific spot in the past and promised we'd self-regulate as best we can so they don't have to get out the towies and chain, I'd agree with you.

we are fortunate enough to be able to request marked parking spaces provided we don't go parking willy-nilly blocking footpaths and "endangering" pedestrians (they react to bikes like cattle, it would seem) - we'd like to keep it that way

besides, his bike isn't nicked so he shouldn't complain - either way I would've played the good samaritan