Mobility Scooter Madness in Gravesend

Strange things going on in Gravesend (as ever?). A young able bodied lad is causing a bit of a stir with his mobility scooter. Sam Scutts, a 17 year old media student, has taken to travelling around town on a second hand mobility scooter. This wouldn't have been much of a story if the local constabulary hadn't decided scooter riding was anti social behavior. While driving through Gravesend town cenre in June young Mr Cutts was pounced on by five, yes five, members of the local plod.

"They threatened to arrest me for dangerous driving, add three points to my provisional driving licence, tow away the scooter and fine me £110", said Sam.

"I was shocked by the police reaction because I was not doing anything wrong.

"I wasn’t driving dangerously, I was driving around people and stopping to let them pass, and the fastest I can go is walking pace.

"And there’s nothing illegal about me driving the scooter - I checked and its not against the law to drive one if you’re not disabled."

The story has a happy ending though, as after hearing of his plight a local garage took pity on him and his rather tatty looking scooter and "pimped his ride", buffing and filling the body work and adding a rather snazzy blue paint job.

Sam said: "It looks like a new scooter, I was shocked when I first saw it.

"It is electric blue all over, and all the panels have been rebuilt.

"We’re not sure what we’re going to do with it. We might auction it for charity."

Mablethorpe 'Daleks' bite back

Following anger at Guardian refering to their town as "Village of the Daleks" due to the high density of mobility scooters (seen here) the residents of Mablethorpe have hit back with this gem of a video.

Mobility Scooters For the Life You Want To Lead

A great look at some of the exciting new (and not so new) 8mph mobility scooters available.

Mobility Scooters For the Life You Want To Lead

We Interupt This Broadcast...

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If you are looking for a mobility scooter you could do far worse than try Value Mobility. There prices are second to none, and their service so far has proved to be excellent.

We now return to our scheduled programming...

Mobility Scooter Tricks

Now i have tried this a few times, but still haven't quite managed to pull it off...

An Alternative to the Pride Go Go Travel Scooter?

In the last few months the Pride Go Go Elite has almost dried up on these shores. Dealers are reporting delivery times of over four weeks to get your hands on these machines. This begs the question, what is the alternative? One to consider is the Mercury Prism folding scooter. While it is often £80-100 more expensive than it's Pride equivilent, the Mercury's styling, usability and build quality make it an attractive proposition.

Stay out my way fool!

As a follow on to yesterdays post, maybe drug dealers can earn the scooter community a little respect. I'm sure the tutting and eye rolling would stop the first time the oh so annoying little man on the scooter hops off and puts a cap in someones arse (ass?). Why an 8mph mobility scooter is the drug gang's motor of choice I have to say the picture doesn't quite do the story justice. Living in Brixton I am privileged to witness this first hand and the lads who are driving these things are usually about 16 and are resplendent in the usual drug lord finery - baseball caps with labels still dangling, tracksuits based on luggage, and pristine white trainers. The one thing the did seem to get spot on was the ratty old Rascal scooter, it really lets the whole image down. They should be rocking something like the Mercury M48GT . Not only is it a sweet ride, it's weight capacity would mean you could probably pack about 200 lbs of chronic around the frame...