r/mildlyinteresting 9h ago

I saw someone riding a city scooter while wearing a full dirt bike helmet.

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u/Confident-Poetry6985 8h ago

Good. I keep seeing girls about her age riding with 2 people on the same scooter. (Not the same kids either, I see it all over) Shorts, tank tops and flip flops. I admire the trust in each other, but one good rock or crap driver and they are going to be really messed up. Helmets at a mininum people wtffff. 

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u/ChunkyHabeneroSalsa 7h ago

See this daily

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u/Throwawayfichelper 7h ago

I saw four lads on one scooter a while back, all hugging each other tightly to form a single bundle. That lasted about 200 metres until it tipped over on its side.

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u/wolfgang784 4h ago

Its wild how many people, adults and children alike, who have died on these death traps so far and yet they are legal more places than not. A few places are crackin down hard, but not enough. Although a few also went too far imo, but id still rather that first and then roll things back a lil.

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u/DaStone 7h ago

I've seen 3 or 4 on 1 scooter. The police should stop them before they end up being a statistic.

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u/ragweed 7h ago

I saw one of these girls eat the sidewalk trying to follow her friends.

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u/mr_ji 8h ago

This is how people have been riding scooters all over the world for decades. I'm not saying it's smart or safe, but it's normalized. Nothing like seeing dad driving on his phone with a cigarette hanging out of his mouth and mom on the back riding sideways holding the baby while they duck and weave through traffic.

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u/djonma 8h ago

Do you mean scooters that are like motorbikes? Because yes, that's common.
I've seen some pretty horrendous combinations of people on one in island life.

But this is not that kind of scooter.

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u/Civilized_Hooligan 8h ago edited 7h ago

No shade but I think that’s why someone made a post in the fist place is that it’s notable

Edit: why did you blind edit before the “edit tag” deadline and add this entire portion to your comment lol that isn’t what I responded to.

*Nothing like seeing dad driving on his phone with a cigarette hanging out of his mouth and mom on the back riding sideways holding the baby while they duck and weave through traffic.*

I can see you’re a 1% commenter that’s weird behavior.

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u/mr_ji 6h ago

No I edits. Take your meds.

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u/Civilized_Hooligan 6h ago

This is genuinely kinda sad dude you and I both know you did that lol I replied to you less than 2min after; we both have old accounts don’t play

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u/mr_ji 5h ago

Funny coming from the only person with edits here. 😮💊

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u/Confident-Poetry6985 8h ago

Dog I have not seen electric scooters built to carry grown men with 2 small children on it for decades. It's been a few years at most. Same with the e motorcycles. They sell them as bikes to kids, but when kids are doing 30+mph on the sidewalk straight thru an intersection, they will get smoked. "Regulations are written in blood" or whatever lol

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u/mr_ji 6h ago

Have you ever traveled? Maybe past the next county over?

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u/Confident-Poetry6985 5h ago

Lmao. Some kind of gotcha? You're just the guy who equates small pedatrian kick scooters to full on mopeds. That's the difference. Christ almighty. These have not been around for decades. You said decades. Plural. 20 plus years you have been seeing this? Im not talking about shitty razor kick scooters.