April 10, 2008
Photo of the Day: April 10, 2008
Tourist season is in full swing, and of course Segways are one of those transportation options that everyone seems to like to make fun of. Here Flickr contributor moazem caught this photo of two such tourists right after they got off the elevator at the National Museum of the American Indian.
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you can use segways inside!?!
i feel like they should have to be locked up on segway racks outside of buildings.
Don't these people know that part of the Washington experience is walking your asses off.
Now we need the 90 second flickr video of the scene that immediately followed this shot: A cop on a Segway chasing down these two Segwayed scofflaws for bringing their Segways into a museum.
Anyone care to take bets on when DC will have its first segway-jacking? Some of the high-end models are going for upwards of $4,000, so they must be a tempting target. Although, I'd rather see marauding gangs of MS13 and the Simple City Crew slaying eachother in 30mph segway-bys. But I'll settle for them having a rumble on choreographed segways, West Side Story-style.
Yeah, that was my exact reaction Miss Bee. There's no way these should be allowed in crowded interior spaces like the Smithsonian museums.
I once saw a woman rolling by on a Segway on a subway platform. I hope she got a ticket.
i suppose it won't be long before we start seeing segways on the metro. do fisher-price & lil'tyke make kid-sized segways? because that's when the REAL segway trouble will begin.
please oh please tell me they hit their heads on a door frame somewhere down the line...
I really want to see someone on a Segway battle someone on one of those standing police tricycles (are they called 3-Ways?)...
...to the death!
the DC cops actually have segways, I think your're confusing the three-wheelers with NYC cops, Joan.
Is it illegal to drop-kick someone riding these things? Everyone has the same reaction when they see them...rolls their eyes and says are you kidding me? Who would ride one of these things...that would be good though, a few segway-jackings to deter the lemmings. Although, the segways are normally downtown, don't think it's going to happen. A boy can still dream though.
Well, jousting is the official Maryland state sport. I'm sure Annapolis wouldn't mind us borrowing it...with SEXY results.
shouldn't they be wearing helmets? the tourists i always see are wearing helmets. with or without the segways.
Those two obviously have no concept of protection or personal safety. They're probably headed back to their hotel room for some hot tourist segway rawdogging after an anonymous gloryhole session in the Indian Museum bathroom.
Police three-ways?
Sign me up.
No, the police do have them here now too (the 3 wheeled segway things). We saw a cop on one on the corner of 7th and (I think) D a couple of weekends ago.
Monkey - you mean the third floor restroom, that's a myth.
*shifty eyes*
I can attest to Police 3-Ways being driven (on the sidewalks, natch) in the area around the National Gallery.
(Of course I'm not sure exactly what they're doing or looking for...it's not exactly high-crime around here.)