8mph COP CHASE; Drunk teen robs scooter for Irn-Bru ad joyride.Byline: By GORDON CURRIE A DRUNKEN teenager led police on a low-speed chase after stealing a mobility scooter A mobility scooter is a mobility aid similar to a wheelchair but configured like a motorscooter. It is often referred to as a power-operated vehicle/scooter or electric scooter as well. . Derek Rodgers spent half an hour on the vehicle, which has a top speed of just eight miles per hour. The 17-year-old only got round the block once before the battery ran out - although he was too drunk to realise. He told police he thought he was driving as "fast as f***". The joyride was similar to the Irn-Bru advert in which an old woman trundles along on her invalid scooter - before ramraiding a shop. Motorists watched in horror as Rodgers weaved erratically on the pavements in Letham, Perth. He took the scooter, which belonged to a friend's disabled mother, at 7am after a night drinking vodka and Irn-Bru. He was two-and-a-half times the limit when collared. Rodgers told officers: "Guilty man, as charged." Last week he admitted drink-driving without insurance at Perth Sheriff Court. He was banned from driving for two years and fined pounds 500. A Tayside Police Tayside Police is the police force covering the Scottish council areas of Angus, City of Dundee and Perth and Kinross (the former Tayside region). The total area covered by the force is 2,896 square miles with a population of 388,000. source said: "There's noway no·way adv. Informal also no·ways In no way or degree; nowise. interj. also no way Used to express emphatic negation. he could have had control of it at any speed. "But he only posed a danger to himself since he wasn't able to go much quicker than walking pace." SUNDAY EMAIL See e-mail. reporters@sundaymail.co.uk CAPTION(S): Bru-haha: Derek Rodgers, right, stole invalid scooter and went on a joyride like the OAP in Irn-Bru's hit ad, top |
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