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Maybe it's time for Police Commissioner Ray Kelly to give up on putting his police force on Segways once and for all. A 12-year NYPD vet is suing after he was forced into early retirement by a nasty injury that occurred while he was leading the department's Segway training sessions at Floyd Bennett Field last year.
Officer Gary Schneider says a software glitch caused one of the wheels to seize and tossed him from the scooter, breaking his leg so severely that it needed surgery with a rod and six screws in order to heal. "I definitely don't consider it safe," Schneider told the NY Post. His lawyer added, "If they continue to give New York's Finest Segways, then they should get hazard pay. They're going to see a lot of cops get injured."
Kelly had just reinstituted a Segway program after the failure of a 2003 trial that ended with officers getting tossed off the vehicles when the the batteries would suddenly die.
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I love it! I say give each and every last one of them Segways. The city will be safer for the rest of us in no time!
cops dream of getting early disability retirement and this guy is suing?
what is this stupid segway crap?
have the nypd been getting BJs from this company or what is the stupid reason for not getting their asses on a bike? how about tricycles...
How about some CORBS?
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With all the donuts they eat, no wonder they break these things.
Segways are designed to buck Fascists. Dubya had a hard time riding one too.
I believe the newer Segways have a warning on them, "Not for use by children under the age of three."
Give them away to worthy causes. I'd be happy to take one off their hands.
[3] NYPD and bikes don't mix. See any Critical Mass ride since 2004.
I would like to see Bloomberg ride one up and down Queens Blvd.