Disability laughs in a mobility scooter

Aginoth

Always get little kids asking for a ride on mine when I take my kids to school in the morning but I appear to be invisible to most adults when i'm out and about...especially on crossings where i've had a few near misses with motorists not seeing me (apparently though it's my fault going buy the abuse I've got after these incidents)

...has anyone worked out how to disable the Invisibility Cloak on their scooter?

fantasticfive

We were out at a local shopping mall and hubby had borrowed a scooter from Shopmobility, absolutely fabulous organisation, by the way.
Anyway, we noticed a stand in the middle of the mall with tanks of fish, with people sitting with their feet in the water having pedicures.
The assistant was standing chatting to some other people when hubby asked her if the fish were safe.
"Oh yes! perfectly safe", she replied.
"So, you don't use piranahs like the other places,do?" he asked.
Hubby is a bilateral amputee.
Cost of scooter - £0
Their faces - priceless!

fiendishly

Sunnyone, you trying to tell me my rights under the DDA are magically removed by my choosing a scooter over a wheelchair?
Once again please stop making random, uncited statements on the forum.

it is the disabled person who has rights under the Disability Discrimination Act, not their wheelchair or scooter

The Department for Transport commissioned a feasibility study in 2005, 'Carriage of Mobility Scooters on Public Transport', which was published on 16 August 2006.
The study made three main recommendations:
· That DfT amends the Rail Vehicle Accessibility Regulations and Public Service Vehicle Accessibility Regulations to widen the definition of the reference wheelchair to include 'mobility aids' such as mobility scooters;
· DfT to issue a guidance document outlining which mobility scooters are suitable for carriage on public transport vehicles to assist transport operators; and
· Transport operators should be required to transport the recommended mobility scooters.

formaldehyde_perfume

I take my dog out with me a lot, he is only small but he is quite protective of me so it makes me feel safer to have him around; a lot of people ask me if he rides on it with me (he doesn't).

I was riding along side my mum at her walking speed (so not anywhere near full scooter speed) in town one day and a woman came out of a doorway so fast she tripped over my wheels and half landed on my steering column and then looked at me like it was my fault, I just gave her evils back and laughed at it with my mum once she was out of earshot.

I have other stories but theyre mostly the same old moany boring stuff.

A lot of the time I feel like I'm in everyone's way or just being a nuissance but I have learnt to use a few witty remarks to help lighten the mood like 'sorry, this thing's got the turning circle of an articulated lorry *rolls eyes* ' or 'sorry, don't mind me I'm just bashing in to everything '

Also, people don't realise that when I take my hand off the 'forward' gripper thing, it isn't responsive and can have a 1 to 2 second delay, it doesnt sound like much but when your dog suddenly stops in front of you to have a wee, he only does it once! I have, quite a few times, run in to my mums ankles as she has had to stop suddenly through no fault of her own, as soon as I have seen it I have stopped but the scooter doesn't stop in time. She now just gives me the look, and shows me the bruise the next day :P

sock-knitter

my mums scooter has given me a few bruised ankles too
overheard a small child say to his dad today, i can tell the difference between a lady and a woman, dad looked at son confused, and son replied ladies are too posh to walk, like that lady over there, pointing to my mum

funniest thing i've seen on a scooter was my mum the first day she got it, she was trying it out on her street, and carried on round a corner, without slowing down, she squealed so much, i can remember it to this day, her excuse having never driven a car, is she didnt know u had to slow on tight corners, she soon learned

sunnyone

fiendishly wrote: »

Sunnyone, you trying to tell me my rights under the DDA are magically removed by my choosing a scooter over a wheelchair?
Once again please stop making random, uncited statements on the forum.

it is the disabled person who has rights under the Disability Discrimination Act, not their wheelchair or scooter

The Department for Transport commissioned a feasibility study in 2005, 'Carriage of Mobility Scooters on Public Transport', which was published on 16 August 2006.
The study made three main recommendations:
· That DfT amends the Rail Vehicle Accessibility Regulations and Public Service Vehicle Accessibility Regulations to widen the definition of the reference wheelchair to include 'mobility aids' such as mobility scooters;
· DfT to issue a guidance document outlining which mobility scooters are suitable for carriage on public transport vehicles to assist transport operators; and
· Transport operators should be required to transport the recommended mobility scooters.

You go and try to get on a train etc. with a class three scooter and you will be rightly refused access, class two mobility aids are allowed most places but class threes? Not and quite rightly so because the law says thay are not mobility aids in tha same sense as wheelchairs, they are often too big to be lawfully carried on public transport as maximum sizes are laid down by law.

Taxis wont carry them either.

I know that the law diffirenciates between diffrent mobility aids, thats not random, uncited statement and you dont have the right to tell me or anyone else what to post or not to post on the forum so stop posting that crap until you are made a mod.

Scooter users can walk, they have to be able to walk to use a scooter so why attempt to try and access small shops?

Why, because they think they have the right to go anywhere and they are wrong, small scooters are a diffrent kettle of fish and wheelchairs are diffrent in the eyes of the law no matter what some ebay crips think.

The NHS dont provide scooters of any class, why is that?

They provide all manner of other mobility aids from crutches to powerchairs but never, ever scooters.

Bootsalebargains

This thread has made me laugh, when my husband 1st had his leg amputated I borrowed a movable ramp to try and get him into our house up the 3 steps to the front door, i had to lift it over the lip of the door wheel him in and push it back outside. Well one night we'd been out I got all the ramp ready and wheeled him up only to find it had frozen and we both came sliding back down, I tried about 5 times but for the live of me I couldn't get it up the ramp. I ended up taking the ramp away and going for my dad and neighbours to help me carry him up the steps.

fiendishly

Well Sunnyone, everytime you post you just happen to show yourself up as a bit of an idiot who gets their facts wrong, that's all. It's embarrassing.

victory

Please don't bring all the tooing and frooing of the law, rules and regulations into this thread as well as all the rest, this is just for a light hearted look at the funny side of life in a mobility scooter, just a laugh that is all:D:D

Richie-from-the-Boro

victory wrote: »

Please don't bring all the tooing and frooing of the law, rules and regulations into this thread as well as all the rest, this is just for a light hearted look at the funny side of life in a mobility scooter, just a laugh that is all:D:D

Agreed - [STRIKE]threat[/STRIKE] thread title - Disability laughs in a mobility scooter - great thread, made me smile :beer: