Just riding an electric scooter is a crime. The law of unintended consequences says Voltaire's 'everything happens for the best'. Read Hayek's 'Constitution Of Liberty'- Maggie Thatcher's bible. It justifies everything on the basis of neoliberal individualism. Wankers can do anything.
Al if its a crime to ride electric scooters then why are they allowed, electric push bikes and scooters are legal but put a fuel running motor in them then they need to be reg. and insured for the road.
Councils are getting throw backs from these scooter operators to run their business as well I have a friend who is a nurse in the ER and a day don't go by from injuries from these scooters or incent people getting knocked over by them, they are a eye sore where ever you go in our city, dumped anywhere and everywhere, I can see in the future hopefully they will get banded, but when money and throw backs are involved and now with them being used for crime then the sooner the better.
I was sitting on my front porch the other morning when a young lad went past on a electric scooter (not a hire one) he was going so fast when he took the corner (T section) he crossed the other side of the road because he was going so fast, just lucky no car was there or he would have been killed for sure and no safety helmet or any safety gear and the blood speed he was doing with such small wheels.
Ashley