Segway... to... the... Rescue

Driving home through Center City Philadelphia tonight, I saw flashing red-and-white lights in my rear-view mirror. Turned out to be two EMS paramedics -- on Segway scooters. They looked cool -- bright red shirts, black shorts, "Paramedic" pouches on either side of their big wheels. I watched them as they tore up Ben Franklin Boulevard -- at about the same blazing speed that I walk the sidewalks of Philadelphia. As I rolled from red light t0 red light, they barely kept pace. Reminded me of an old Droopy Dawg cartoon, where Droopy rides to the rescue of a damsel in distress.... oooooooohhhh soooooooooo slowwwwwwwwwwly. I would not want to have been the Art Museum patron who had just had a seizure... concept 10, execution 2.