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No-seat segway-style police tricycles?
No-seat segway-style police tricycles?
http://www.veoh.com/videos/v8733726p...rce=embedVideo What's the advantage (real or imagined) of these odd beasts? Cheers, Carl Fogel |
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On May 8, 4:20*am, wrote:
No-seat segway-style police tricycles? *http://www.veoh.com/videos/v8733726p...rce=embedVideo What's the advantage (real or imagined) of these odd beasts? Cheers, Carl Fogel Cheaper than those little parking enforcement buggies? |
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wrote: No-seat segway-style police tricycles? http://www.veoh.com/videos/v8733726p...rce=embedVideo What's the advantage (real or imagined) of these odd beasts? I can't imagine...they're clearly meant to allow a "foot" patrol to cover more ground faster than is reasonable on foot, but I thought the long-running solution to that was bicycles. -- Ryan Cousineau http://www.wiredcola.com/ "In other newsgroups, they killfile trolls." "In rec.bicycles.racing, we coach them." |
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On May 7, 12:29*pm, A Muzi wrote:
wrote: No-seat segway-style police tricycles? *http://www.veoh.com/videos/v8733726p...rce=embedVideo What's the advantage (real or imagined) of these odd beasts? huh. You'd think a Crown Victoria would be better for purposes of donuts and Playboy. Whatever. Hey! *How do you toss a handcuffed guy headfirst into a Segway? You don't need to. Cuff a perp to a Segway for an hour, and if he doesn't die of embarrassment, he'll still be so scarred he'll walk the straight and narrow from now on. Ben |
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On Wed, 07 May 2008 13:20:09 -0600, may have
said: No-seat segway-style police tricycles? http://www.veoh.com/videos/v8733726p...rce=embedVideo What's the advantage (real or imagined) of these odd beasts? Stable with the power off, unlike a Segway. No dismount delay (no need to swing a leg over) unlike a bicycle. No fitness issue, unlike a bicycle. No sweaty officers to offend the sensibilities of the easily annoyed. Probably very maneuverable. I get the feeling that this was shot in France. If so, what reason would they truly need other than "They're French, therefore we will use them!" Had this been in a US city, I would cynically posit that the most crucial benefits were twofold; first, a well-connected individual or company made a tidy profit selling the vehicles to the police department to begin with, and a second sale will be made later of something else to replace them, possibly by the same well-connected seller, when these prove to be less useful than anticipated. -- My email address is antispammed; pull WEEDS if replying via e-mail. Typoes are not a bug, they're a feature. Words processed in a facility that contains nuts. |
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On Fri, 09 May 2008 11:43:24 -0600, Werehatrack
wrote: On Wed, 07 May 2008 13:20:09 -0600, may have said: No-seat segway-style police tricycles? http://www.veoh.com/videos/v8733726p...rce=embedVideo What's the advantage (real or imagined) of these odd beasts? Stable with the power off, unlike a Segway. No dismount delay (no need to swing a leg over) unlike a bicycle. No fitness issue, unlike a bicycle. No sweaty officers to offend the sensibilities of the easily annoyed. Probably very maneuverable. I get the feeling that this was shot in France. If so, what reason would they truly need other than "They're French, therefore we will use them!" Had this been in a US city, I would cynically posit that the most crucial benefits were twofold; first, a well-connected individual or company made a tidy profit selling the vehicles to the police department to begin with, and a second sale will be made later of something else to replace them, possibly by the same well-connected seller, when these prove to be less useful than anticipated. Dear Werehatrack, The tricycle segways do look a bit French, as Wodehouse sometimes remarked. But (alas for Francophobes!) the video was shot by James Lileks in Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minnesota: "Today I went downtown to shoot photos for buzz.mn – mostly to see what it was like on the first good warm spring day in the city. It was as I expected: some office workers walking around, some people waiting for a bus, a smattering of bummage, and cops on their spiffy new patrol trikes." http://www.lileks.com/bleats/archive...08/050708.html I do like your points about stability when parked, no leg-over-top-tube, no fitness needed, and maneuverability. Maybe I'd understand the attraction better if I had to carry all the stuff that cops hang on their belts and stuff a kevlar vest under my shirt. Cheers, Carl Fogel |
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On Fri, 09 May 2008 11:43:24 -0600, Werehatrack
wrote: [---] I get the feeling that this was shot in France. No - vehicles, uniforms, street fittings and architecture don't match. |
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On Fri, 9 May 2008 14:17:43 -0400, "Sandy" may have
said: Dans le message de , Werehatrack a réfléchi, et puis a déclaré : On Wed, 07 May 2008 13:20:09 -0600, may have said: No-seat segway-style police tricycles? http://www.veoh.com/videos/v8733726p...rce=embedVideo What's the advantage (real or imagined) of these odd beasts? I get the feeling that this was shot in France. If so, what reason would they truly need other than "They're French, therefore we will use them!" With the vehicles shown. beginning with 2 extra long SUV types, clearly US origin, how did you come to this conclusion? Too quick of a scan, mostly...and the trikes looked like the kind of thing that the French are more willing to try than some others. Someone pointed out that this was actually in the Minneapolis area, which is not as surprising as it would have been if the locale had been Dallas, where no one in their right minds would want an open-air vehicle for much of the year, or Miami, where the entire idea would just be ludicrous. Given that rollers, bikes and horses are popular transport modes for FR cops, maybe you had an overdose of Freedom Fries? -- My email address is antispammed; pull WEEDS if replying via e-mail. Typoes are not a bug, they're a feature. Words processed in a facility that contains nuts. |
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