From: jon+usenet@unequivocal.eu 
  
 On 2025-08-07, Nick Odell  wrote: 
 > On Thu, 7 Aug 2025 08:27:45 +0100, Roland Perry  
 > wrote: 
 > 
 >>Things like this have been discussed here before, so I should know the 
 >>answer. But not completely sure. 
 >> 
 >>Vehicle in question is a quite small powered wheelchair, the sort with a 
 >>batteries under the seat. Not a mobility scooter as such. 
 >> 
 >>No numberplate, no lights, no wing mirrors, and I'm not sure what they 
 >>have as brakes. 
 >> 
 >>Anyway I encountered one yesterday motoring along near the local High 
 >>Street, just far enough from the kerb to avoid drain covers, but 
 >>nevertheless very wobbly. Doing about 5mph. 
 >> 
 >>I'm a big fan of provisions for manual wheelchairs, and wouldn't expect 
 >>to push one in the road like that (although presumably it would as legal 
 >>as walking with or without a wheelbarrow). 
 >> 
 >>What does the team think about that powered chair? 
 > 
 > When I am emperor of these fine islands, I shall pass a decree 
 > requiring all wheelchairs, prams, buggies and perambulatory blind 
 > people to be fitted with large, aggressive cutting discs on either 
 > side and when they meet an obstruction of any sort on the pavement 
 > they may cut their way through it in order to pass. The more unsteady 
 > and unreliable my own legs become the more fervently I dream about 
 > this. 
  
 I definitely think it should be legally permissible to destroy 
 incessantly-ringing burglar alarms using any violence necessary. 
  
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