So, I'm at the pharmacy to pick up Wifies meds and as I'm coming out of the store I see two people on scooters siting stopped and looking at a map.
This is pretty common as the Town is a tourist trap and right next to the Ocean.
Scooter rental is pretty common.
I stop next to my car for a moment as I noticed the Woman is having a hard time with her balance. Obviously the scooter is a handful for her.
The guy puts the map away and takes off and the Woman starts to follow but is still having trouble.....she starts to move and her left leg is still half walking as the scooter starts to move....she still is not balanced.
All of a sudden, WHAM!!!! Right into the back of a parked car.
Broken tail light on the car and broken headlight on the scooter.
The guy returns and they both get off and survey the damage and then look around a bit and both get back on the scooters and take off.
PIZZED ME OFF!!!
I grab my cell phone and call 911 and tell the operator what happened.
It wasn't a couple of minutes until the cops arrived and checked things out.
I gave them my info and took off across the street to the hardware store as the cop walked over to the scooter rental place to check out the license number I gave them....Yeah, I got the number of the scooter.
When I come out of the hardware store, here's the cop with a big grin.
"Hey, did you find them", I asked.
He indicated that it was no problem and that they did rent from the place he went to.
"Thing is", says the cop, "It was their own car they hit".
We both had a good laugh and the cop says, "no harm, no foul".
I guess it's OK to ride a scooter that has less then 60 cc's displacement without an endorsement in this State but I'm not sure that's a good idea.
DT