Just saw the thread about cyclists on the Moor and it reminded me about 4 incidents lately involving those disabled vehicles.

Do any of them have any road/pavement sense?

Recently I was travelling down Ecclesall Road, just above Gilders, there was one of these vehicles trying to turn right in to Bannerdale Road, cars were weaving in and out of each other trying to avoid it. Why don't they use the crossings?

The next incident was by Staples.

Walking in front of the building towards town I turned left to head for bottom of the Moor only to be nearly run down by one of these travelling quite fast, if it had been a bike I'd have given them a mouthful...

On another occasion I was coming out of the road between The Waggon and Horses and the row of shops on Heeley Green, it is a blind junction as I pulled up an OAP on one of these crossed straight in front of me without looking or stopping...IDIOT

This also happened again at the bottom of my road and a while back I saw one of these vehicles wrapped around a lamp post!

What is the law on these bl00dy things?

Is anyone allowed to 'drive' one, irrespective of if they have a driven a car or any motor vehicle previously.

Is it just me?....Do they follow me!

I am glad someone else gets narked by these.
I reckon they have their car licence taken away cos they're not safe behind the wheel of a motor car, get one of these and wayhey! no licence, no tax, no insurance...nowt to pay
they're allowed to go on the path or the road....cos they fought in the war & gave you your freedom you know...

I cannot wait till I'm old, I'm gonna have a whale of a time knocking ppl outta the way swearing and waving me stick at the youth of the day, refusing to thank ppl who hold a door open fo me or give me their seat on the bus...I shall say I demand your respect cos I'm an annoying old fart.

LOL

Hayley...give us a shout when you get 'old'...maybe we can get a few together and have a cruise out somewhere, down the middle of Ecclesall Road perhaps..:hihi:

I am glad someone else gets narked by these.
I reckon they have their car licence taken away cos they're not safe behind the wheel of a motor car, get one of these and wayhey! no licence, no tax, no insurance...nowt to pay
they're allowed to go on the path or the road....cos they fought in the war & gave you your freedom you know...

I cannot wait till I'm old, I'm gonna have a whale of a time knocking ppl outta the way swearing and waving me stick at the youth of the day, refusing to thank ppl who hold a door open fo me or give me their seat on the bus...I shall say I demand your respect cos I'm an annoying old fart.

LOL
You forgot "I used to live here when it wer'e just a field", AND leave mi front door open.

I am glad someone else gets narked by these.
....cos they fought in the war & gave you your freedom you know...

I cannot wait till I'm old, I'm gonna have a whale of a time knocking ppl outta the way swearing and waving me stick at the youth of the day, refusing to thank ppl who hold a door open fo me or give me their seat on the bus...I shall say I demand your respect cos I'm an annoying old fart.
LOL
And when you've stormed beaches at Normandy, been machine gunned from fighter planes, starved half to death in POW camps, then come home & rebuilt a broken nation you'll deserve my respect - :rolleyes:

Have a great day :) :D :P

Outside Woolies on the Moor, one came hurtling down, just managed to pull my daughter out of the way.
He was wearing a cowboy hat.......it nearly got chucked atop a boarded up shop.

There was the infamous footage of the old dear on the motorway slip road.

Then there was the case of the pensioner who spent his days in the pub and then drove one of the things home whilst bladdered. The streets were filled with the bodies of the folks he ran into.

The police took his buggy off him as he was a menace and he started moaning about being left stranded as a result!:loopy:

Then there was the case of the pensioner who spent his days in the pub and then drove one of the things home whilst bladdered.


I notice there are always 2 or 3 parked outside The Waggon and Horses at Heeley...perhaps the 'Old Bill' should wait outside with some breathalysers!:thumbsup:

I once saw an old couple driving those things up Division Street, side by side so that they took up the entire pavement.

They were heading towards the forum and woe betide anyone who was in front of them or going the opposite way as they seemed to be heedless of who they ran into/over.

People were being forced into the road all the time by them.

At one point the old woman had to slow down and swerve to avoid a lamp-post and she was so eager to get back beside the bloke that she ended up getting the plastic rim on his cart (above the back wheel) trapped under her own wheels and ripping it clean off.

It flew off and missed hitting another pedestrian by an inch.

Afterwards they just careered off on their merry way.:loopy:

This thread about scooters or 4x4s :hihi:

This thread about scooters or 4x4s :hihi:
Invlaid carts being driven like 4x4s...:loopy:

every so often three drive down the road next to my office - I can't help but hum the old Formula One tune as they trundle on by...

Saying that, Michael Schumacher's retired now - it won't be long...

Just saw the thread about cyclists on the Moor and it reminded me about 4 incidents lately involving those disabled vehicles.

Do any of them have any road/pavement sense?

Recently I was travelling down Ecclesall Road, just above Gilders, there was one of these vehicles trying to turn right in to Bannerdale Road, cars were weaving in and out of each other trying to avoid it. Why don't they use the crossings?

If you mean pedestrian crossings they don’t use them because they’re for — PEDESTRIANS!

Cheffy — what’s ‘quite fast’? They’re allowed to do 4mph on pavements and 8mph on roads. If that’s ‘quite fast’, every car doing 30 is travelling at breakneck speed!

Aren't the highways and byways of this great country intended for taxed motor vehicles?

I would have thought that invaild carts fall into the same catagory as mini-bikes and those daft motor-scooters they sell in the Forum?:suspect:

i found a video clip of some of them driving there little scooter things http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GOT9PNI0xRk

If you mean pedestrian crossings they don’t use them because they’re for — PEDESTRIANS!

What's Pelican crossings for then, Wilderbeast? :hihi:

And when you've stormed beaches at Normandy, been machine gunned from fighter planes, starved half to death in POW camps, then come home & rebuilt a broken nation you'll deserve my respect - :rolleyes:



Most of the people who've done any of that, are already dead.

And when you've stormed beaches at Normandy, been machine gunned from fighter planes, starved half to death in POW camps, then come home & rebuilt a broken nation you'll deserve my respect - :rolleyes:


Well said.

Shame that we have yet another thread pointlessly whinging about old and or disabled people.

Well said.

Shame that we have yet another thread pointlessly whinging about old and or disabled people.
Just keep that smile pinned on when one of the geriatric rascals run's over your feet!:thumbsup:

I have to say, having been a victim of a right nasty ankle bashing from one of these menaces that most of the people I see whizzing around in them tend to be far to young to have fought in any war. They also allways seem to only just have wedged their body mass into the buggy, infact at times the chassis of the things could almost be heard creaking under the strain

I have to say, having been a victim of a right nasty ankle bashing from one of these menaces that most of the people I see whizzing around in them tend to be far to young to have fought in any war. They also allways seem to only just have wedged their body mass into the buggy, infact at times the chassis of the things could almost be heard creaking under the strain
Normally with a fag in their gob as well.

I don't think the issue is one of respect here; since when did serving in an armed conflict entitle you to behave in an antisocial manner and potentially endanger the life of innocent passers-by?

If you're too p*ssed up or dodery to drive the thing safely then you really shouldn't be behind the wheel of anything from an invalid cart all the way up to an oil tanker!:thumbsup:

Normally with a fag in their gob as well.
:hihi: Oh how true vike... and sometimes they will be half strangling some poor little doggy by dragging it along by its lead being tied to the steering bars.. this I have witnessed several time's..

If you mean pedestrian crossings they don’t use them because they’re for — PEDESTRIANS!

Cheffy — what’s ‘quite fast’? They’re allowed to do 4mph on pavements and 8mph on roads. If that’s ‘quite fast’, every car doing 30 is travelling at breakneck speed!

You say they don't use pedestrian crossings cos they're for PEDESTRIANS...

Now I might be mistaken but arn't pavements supposed to be for PEDESTRIANS, if they're allowed on the road that's where they should be.....as for his speed which was 'quite fast'...it was faster thanI walk...probably 8mph then...certainly faster than I can run...:hihi: :love:

anything from an invalid cart all the way up to an oil tanker!:thumbsup:
It's also an offence to be Drunk in charge of a pram.
Why's that then? :huh:


C'mon mi beauty

My late grandad got in trouble with the rozzers while making his way along the parkway from Chesterfield on his grandad cart. Old people eh, bless their senile little souls.

have you ever seen that crazey old man who has one of them scooter things, he has a skull and cross bones flag and drives it down chesterfield by pass on occassions, nutter,rodding you and shouting crap with no teeth.

We once got my Great nan-nans (RIP) scooter and stuck 2 car batteries on it, we went down to the local shops on it with ban-daners over are facers wheeling it. Well laugh.

P.s we took the batteries off before you start saying i killed my nan.

My late grandad got in trouble with the rozzers while making his way along the parkway from Chesterfield on his grandad cart. Old people eh, bless their senile little souls.


LOL!!! was that your grandad!!!!?

no he's dead now i'm afraid. he used to do it all the time with his jack russel in the basket on the front of the cart.

Yea this was agers ago, did he have a skull and cross bones flag? lmao@the jack russel bit. Crazy!

What's Pelican crossings for then, Wilderbeast? :hihi:

A peli CAN use it if it wants to.

You say they don't use pedestrian crossings cos they're for PEDESTRIANS...

Now I might be mistaken but arn't pavements supposed to be for PEDESTRIANS, if they're allowed on the road that's where they should be.....as for his speed which was 'quite fast'...it was faster thanI walk...probably 8mph then...certainly faster than I can run...:hihi: :love:

Pavements are indeed for pedestrians, young cyclists, mothers with prams — and the electric invalid vehicles being complained about. They are allowed on the pavement, maximum speed 4mph, or, if they qualify for road use, on the road at 8mph.

Pay attention. I hate having to boil cabbages twice.

And incidentally, even at 8mph, it might be faster than you can run but your reflexes should be faster than his so you can always dodge out of the way. Live and let live, and for God’s sake try to be happy!!!

Such meanies!
when the pavements are increasingly becoming as dangerous as the roads - bikers roller bladers skateboarders prams occasionally cars and motor bikes dog poo wobbly paving slabs arsey teenagers arsey drunks etc etc etc - you moan about those least likely to 'deliberately' obstruct or offend?????????????
Obviously there are going to be some who are awkward sods and you seem to have found them all.
We've all found the awkward ones sometime or other. But where has that good old yorkshire tolerance and understanding gone?
Cut them a little slack, - empathy needed here? can you imagine being disabled? Try moving aside to let them by with a smile, or at least look in their eyes and say hi, most people ignore them - many look down on them few seem to care either way.
Some of these post are vindictive and thoroughly spiteful. Remember the saying - 'there but for the grace of god go I'; it really would warm my heart if those who think disability/old age is so amusing end up in a chair themselves.
Another saying ' what goes around comes around'.

P.S. I am an able bodied 38yo - in case you were wondering.

Well said supertyke.Consider this you moaning lot.You have a condition which prevents you from walking,so you cannot exercise,so you put on weight.Vicious circle.Thank god you are able to go out and moan.
And have a bit more respect and decency.
Right,who you going to pick on next? The blind,the deaf,the mentally ill?
Get a life.

Outside Woolies on the Moor, one came hurtling down, just managed to pull my daughter out of the way.
He was wearing a cowboy hat.......it nearly got chucked atop a boarded up shop.


how long ago was this

it wasnt february of this year was it

And when you've stormed beaches at Normandy, been machine gunned from fighter planes, starved half to death in POW camps, then come home & rebuilt a broken nation you'll deserve my respect - :rolleyes:

Have a great day :) :D :P

I have thought to myself what will the new generation of old folk say when they are trying to get the respect they deserve? I remember when I was a kid the frequent "I fought in the war for that" etc.

The new generation of old folk won't have been made to fight for our country (well I hope not anyway) so what will be their gripes?

"I had to live through Betamax video recorders you know, I will never be the same again", or "We only had one car per household you know and we had to share it!"

:hihi:

Pavements are indeed for pedestrians, young cyclists, mothers with prams — and the electric invalid vehicles being complained about. They are allowed on the pavement, maximum speed 4mph, or, if they qualify for road use, on the road at 8mph.

Pay attention. I hate having to boil cabbages twice.

And incidentally, even at 8mph, it might be faster than you can run but your reflexes should be faster than his so you can always dodge out of the way. Live and let live, and for God’s sake try to be happy!!!


Talking of cabbages I see you are from Manchester..you must be used to em.....:loopy:

Oh and I couldn't dodge it cos it came around the corner..

As for being happy....:hihi: :hihi: :hihi: :hihi:

how long ago was this

it wasnt february of this year was it

Nope, late May early June, I'm still keeping a lookout for the old get :loopy:

They are an utter menace to society, and they are worse than the cyclists on the Moor. Have you seen the couple who have canopies on their old people movers? It covers the whole vehicle, except the wheels. I wish I had my phone with me to take a pic.

I have thought to myself what will the new generation of old folk say when they are trying to get the respect they deserve? I remember when I was a kid the frequent "I fought in the war for that" etc.

The new generation of old folk won't have been made to fight for our country (well I hope not anyway) so what will be their gripes?

"I had to live through Betamax video recorders you know, I will never be the same again", or "We only had one car per household you know and we had to share it!"

:hihi:

As a very old-timer, the new generation will not be able to use “stood in a cinema queue for two hours in the p***ing rain” either!

They are an utter menace to society, and they are worse than the cyclists on the Moor. Have you seen the couple who have canopies on their old people movers? It covers the whole vehicle, except the wheels. I wish I had my phone with me to take a pic.

Saves them from getting wet when it rains, and from divvies like you spitting on them — presumably when no-one’s watching!

Nope, late May early June, I'm still keeping a lookout for the old get :loopy:

i was asking as my late hubby got a scoota in febuary this year a month before he died, he was terminally ill with cancer and he was always wearing a cowboy hat. i was amazed the company let him have a scoota as he was heavily on morphine at times and didnt always know what he was doing and he got lost a few times. first day he got it he went down the moor he went with 2 of his sons and he just disapeared he decided to try his new scoota out and rode home to arbourthorne from the moor and broke down on norfolk park a good kind man in a van brought him home after most of us were out looking for him.
the next day he decided he was going to go to darnal to see his friend, nobody could stop him we just had to wait and hope he was ok. his friend phoned us to let us know he had got there and when he set off back home. he broke down again. i had to get one of his sisters to go to the other sisters to borrow her van and get him home
a few days later he stayed at his mums to give me a break he took the scoota up there with him he disapeared at 4 in the morning looking for a paper shop wearing only trousers t shirt and shoes [ its february] he set of at hillsbrough and finished up broke down at loxley a milk man found him and called the police. his mum and sister were out looking for him.
we can laugh about it now but at the time we couldnt.

And when you've stormed beaches at Normandy, been machine gunned from fighter planes, starved half to death in POW camps, then come home & rebuilt a broken nation you'll deserve my respect - :rolleyes:

Have a great day :) :D :P


Didn't realise that you had to do all these things as a prerequisite of owning one. Respect is due :hihi: :hihi:

Outside Woolies on the Moor, one came hurtling down, just managed to pull my daughter out of the way.
He was wearing a cowboy hat.......it nearly got chucked atop a boarded up shop.



i was asking as my late hubby got a scoota in febuary this year a month before he died, he was terminally ill with cancer and he was always wearing a cowboy hat.
So sorry to hear about your loss, glad my remarks regarding the "old get" wasn't him.
What startled me about the incident I had on the Moor was the speed and size of the thing! If I hadn't been holding my daughters hand - enabling me to drag her out of the way, he would have hit her rather hard, he certainly made no attempt to stop or slow down. There was certinly no justification to travel in such a way on a rather narrow pedestrian part of the Moor (area between woolies entrance and the watch/sweets/shoes stalls).

Saves them from getting wet when it rains, and from divvies like you spitting on them — presumably when no-one’s watching!


What an odd response. Where did you get the spitting from? I would never spit in public let alone at anyone. Perhaps you may do that but I don't.

I may be pouring oil on troubled waters, Not sure, but maybe they should have a yearly CBT type thing, I have nothing against the vehicles as such, but like teens, a few spoil it for many.
Insurance wouldn't go amiss...what if by accident user knocked down a child? ran over your foot? ran over the dog? skidded on ice (I hear you have winter up here :help: ) and hit a car? Like I said I may be wrong, maybe you do have to have insurance...