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All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it. - H.L. Mencken
MP risks arrest to legalise scooter
LEMBIT OPIK, the Welsh MP most famous for doing one of the Cheeky Girls, has made an Emily Pankhurst-like protest in order to avail us all of the freedoms which our ancestors fought two world wars to secure.
The wonky-gobbed gingernut tore himself away from important work in his Montgomeryshire constituency long enough to pootle up and down outside Westminster on a Segway in a bid to force UK law makers into making the expensive toys legal to use on British roads.
"The British Government seems paralysed with indecision. On the one hand, they say that the Segway PT isn't legal," said the shameless self-publicist, adding, "On the other hand, they are unable to point to a single scrap of evidence in British law to show why they should be banned."
Opik managed to get away with riding the wobbly contraption without feeling the long arm of the law, but he really should have been arrested for impersonating a police officer – an offence which carries a maximum ten-year jail sentence – for stencilling the word POLICE on the front of his Segway.
In 1998 Lembit came close to death in a near fatal para-gliding accident when he fell 80 feet onto a Welsh mountain and broke his back in 12 places. You'd think he'd be a bit nervey about scooting about under the wheels of 18m long bendy buses and attracting the full fury of London cabbies twatting about on an electrified pogo stick. µ
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Taking the plunge, Great lords a-Lembit! Scoot Free! Trooping the Colour - Forgetting Cheeky Wit It - Grand Scooter Mounted Guards and palace Parade and carrying mace, of course there is shadow ministerial housing and then there is roughhousing - put a horn on a snowmobile so she would for illegally resting his astride his Segway - 
Hey man, well she's a total blam-blam
She said she had to squeeze it but she... then she... Oooh-aha suffragette, The songs romains the same - take that whilst standing firm - Seinfeld right on through Buckingham Gates Guvner - Not much more than a Birdcage Walk - now at Easey Street and Honeytraps - ahem. tap-tap
^ 
Man, stop changing your name. You keep on making me read your insensible comments and it's driving me CRAZY!
National Security ( and oil imports definitely are a national security issue ) might possibly be in the realm of "government", yes?

Might even be their *responsibility*?

So how come alternative commuting, bicycle segway and moped, isn't being PUSHED by them that are going to be in line for the guillotine, if history is any indication of how civilizations deal with mismanagement...

Here's an article about how the energy "situation" in the world could be considered the greatest threat
( US centric, but the principles are valid for all of us )
<A HREF="http://www.survivalblog.com/2008/09/energy_dependence_and_us_milit.html">http://www.survivalblog.com/2008/09/energy_dependence_and_us_milit.html</A>

Enjoy,