MEDINA, Minn. (AP) — A Minnesota man arrested for drunken driving while operating a Segway stand-up scooter has beaten the charges again.
The Minnesota Court of Appeals agrees with Mark Greenman. His Segway doesn't meet the definition of a motor vehicle under the state's drunken driving laws. The 48-year-old attorney was charged with drunken driving last February after riding his Segway from a bar to his Medina home. A police officer spotted Greenman veering into the roadway. Greeman failed a field sobriety test.
The appeals court ruled that because the Segway operates under 12 mph, it falls under regulations pertaining to pedestrians, not motor vehicles.
Greenman was also arrested in 2010 for driving the Segway while drunk. A judge granted his motion to dismiss and the city didn't appeal. The Star Tribune (http://bit.ly/SAS7PU ) says a third DWI case against Greeman involving his Segway is still pending.
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Information from: Star Tribune, http://www.startribune.com
Copyright 2013 The Associated Press.
Comments (11)
Add commentAll hail
Segway's!!!!
Mav
My riding lawn mower dont go over 12mph so how do people get DWI's on them?? Have to give the eelpout credit. He know's his law's.
BTW Mav & F&B
Did you see where they are going to put women in combat!! I must be getting OLD!!
On the other hand I guess there is a few dfl women that I would put up against a battalion & they would probably win ehh??
Purposed
GOLD STAR for that one!!!
If you sent the lefter
women posters on here into combat on foreign soil you'd get hauled up in World Court for violating the Geneva Convention!
F&B
Is that still in the Hauge?? I hear they give you good hash/drugs while you are sitting & waiting anyways.
Com'on think about what ya said. If some of the lady/it posters on here ran over a hill & the enemy seen them. Well you think about that. I might even have to go to the size of a regiment!!
If we
sent I'maneedajob and Kim Jong-il about one week of comments from those Lefters and they'll either stop their nuke stuff and negotiate or wait for them to destroy us from within.
We'd have to just sneak them in quietly and not let them know until it's too late!
I dont think it's
Legal to give 2 gold stars in one day. Sorry but I like your idea. Sneak'em in at 38000ft with no oxygen mask & a parachute packed by the ayatollah's.
What if they just
bounce?