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Just too damn funny to ignore
« on: July 16, 2008, 02:03:48 PM »
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Parking Lot Opens For Downtown Scooters

COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Trimming expenses is the name of the game for a growing number of Central Ohioans, and with gas hovering near $4 a gallon, riding bicycles, motorcycles and scooters is growing in popularity.

Getting to work on two wheels is becoming so popular that downtown workers are finding it difficult to find a place to park. But parking your scooter will get easier beginning Wednesday, NBC 4's Mike Bowersock reported.

The city will open its first scooter parking lot on Gay Street between Third and High.

Rick Beam runs a scooter dealership on High Street in Clintonville. His sales have doubled this summer.

It's difficult to get an exact estimate as to how many scooters are being operated around the city, but some estimates are as high as 3,000.

"With the fuel injection engines, it should get about 100 miles per gallon under normal use," Beam said.

But there are drawbacks.

Scooters are now mixing into the flow of traffic.

Dave Hughes and his wife have started riding scooters to and from work.

"It's more of a respect thing and 'you're in my way kind of thing,'" Hughes said.

But as the price of gasoline remains high, scooters may not always be the vehicles that are "in the way."

"We've been absolutely inundated (with a) 35 scooter backorder right now," Beam said.

With a higher demand than supply, Central Ohioans should expect to see more and more of them as more are built and available.

http://www.nbc4i.com/midwest/cmh/news.apx.-content-articles-CMH-2008-07-15-0034.html
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"I stood up, unzipped my pants, lowered my shorts and placed my bare ass on the window. That's the last thing I wanted those people to see of me."

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Re: Just too damn funny to ignore
« Reply #1 on: July 16, 2008, 02:23:09 PM »
Steve says that Cleveland does, in fact, rock.
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You can keep a wooden stake in your trunk
On the off-chance that the fairy tales ain't bunk
And Imma keep a bottle of that funk
To get motel parking lot, balcony crunk.

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« Reply #2 on: July 16, 2008, 02:32:14 PM »
Really, a Scooter lot on  GAY STREET, that is classic.   :s&m:
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Re: Just too damn funny to ignore
« Reply #3 on: July 16, 2008, 03:09:15 PM »
Have they opened scooter parking lots in Dothan yet?
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Redskins cornerback DeAngelo Hall said, "Guys don't mind hitting Michael Vick in the open field, but when you see Cam, you have to think about how you're going to tackle him. He's like a big tight end coming at you."

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Re: Just too damn funny to ignore
« Reply #4 on: July 16, 2008, 03:11:01 PM »
Have they opened scooter parking lots in Dothan yet?

Right next to the electric car chargers at Wiregrass Commons Mall.
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"Hey my friends are the ones that wanted to eat at that shitty hole in the wall that only served bread and wine.  What kind of brick and mud business model is that.  Stick to the cart if that's all you're going to serve.  Then that dude came in with like 12 other people, and some of them weren't even wearing shoes, and the restaurant sat them right across from us. It was gross, and they were all stinky and dirty.  Then dude starts talking about eating his body and drinking his blood...I almost lost it.  That's the last supper I'll ever have there, and I hope he dies a horrible death."

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Re: Just too damn funny to ignore
« Reply #5 on: July 16, 2008, 03:12:00 PM »
Right next to the electric car chargers at Wiregrass Commons Mall.
Steve will be walking on sunshine!
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Redskins cornerback DeAngelo Hall said, "Guys don't mind hitting Michael Vick in the open field, but when you see Cam, you have to think about how you're going to tackle him. He's like a big tight end coming at you."

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Re: Just too damn funny to ignore
« Reply #6 on: July 16, 2008, 03:15:41 PM »
He'll chime in when he gets back from his ride the Dothan premiere of Mama Mia.

« Last Edit: July 16, 2008, 03:58:00 PM by Pell City Tiger »
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"I stood up, unzipped my pants, lowered my shorts and placed my bare ass on the window. That's the last thing I wanted those people to see of me."