Tourists in Vegas using handicapped scooters

[richlevy]

Sweet Lord, deliver us from idiots.

From here

LAS VEGAS, Nevada (AP) -- There's lazy, and then there's Las Vegas lazy.
In increasing numbers, Las Vegas tourists exhausted by the four miles of gluttony laid out before them are getting around on electric "mobility scooters."
Don't think trendy Vespa motorbikes. Think updated wheelchair.
Forking over about $40 a day and their pride, perfectly healthy tourists are cruising around Las Vegas casinos in transportation intended for the infirm.
You don't have to take a step. You don't even have to put your drink down.
"It was all the walking," 27-year-old Simon Lezama said on his red Merits Pioneer 3. Lezama, a trim and fit-looking restaurant manager from Odessa, Texas, rented it on Day 3 of his five-day vacation, "and now I can drink and drive, be responsible and save my feet."

Now I've been to Las Vegas a few times. And the super casinos, congested sidewalks, and high heat do make getting around on foot hard. But until a doctor tells me I have to, I am not getting on one of those scooters.

On our last trip I must have walked five miles one day. I thought my feet would fall off, assuming they didn't burn up from the heat of the sidewalk.

Can you imagine what it would look like if a majority of the tourists did this?