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October 9, 2012
“Free” Rascal Scooters
You know a trend has become a massive scam, when South Park dedicates an entire show to the shame of obesity and the scooter brigade. The majority of the scooter squad jamming up the boardwalk was less than 50 years old. They weren’t disabled. They were just too obese and lazy to wobble down the boardwalk to the next junk food joint. They were certainly in the right place. The Wildwood boardwalk is home to pizza topped with cheese fries, chocolate covered bacon, fried Oreos, funnel cake topped with powdered sugar, and 64 ounce sugar laced lemonade. The place would make Nanny Bloomberg’s head explode. -- Guest Post: Decline, Decay, Denial, Delusion, And Despair | ZeroHedge
Posted by gerardvanderleun at October 9, 2012 10:00 AM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.
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Posted by: Jewel at October 9, 2012 9:45 AM
Just read the whole depressing article. Damn, but I picked a bad time to go on a bong fast. I'm about ready to buy good news by the gram.
JWM
Posted by: jwm at October 9, 2012 10:37 AM
Funny, that the person who penned this article without a medical license could diagnose that these people were faking any type of physical problem. Hopefully, he will be able to get his own thirty pounds under control when he gets his own lard ass up off the couch.
Posted by: Lydia at October 9, 2012 11:18 AM
Lydia, there is a "slight" difference between thirty pounds overweight and 300.
Furthermore, I don't think anyone is disputing that these people have physical problems. The issue is why they have them.
Posted by: Fletcher Christian at October 9, 2012 3:38 PM
Most often, the people with scooters have asthma. The reason they're using the scooter is that their asthma is severe enough that walking a block could kill them. The reason they have the physical problem of asthma is the same reason a pretty person might have it. The reason they have the physical problem of high weight (and consequent unsightliness) is that the steroids they've had to take for years or decades to keep the asthma under enough control that it doesn't kill them have, as a near-universal side effect, weight gain.
(There are, of course, many other drugs and many diseases that can cause weight gain on this scale. Most of them aren't per se disabling, though - at least in the sense that they don't keep you from walking around.)
Posted by: jaed at October 9, 2012 8:07 PM