WHEELCHAIR ASSASSINS?

SueAndNotU, whom I don't know at all but seems to live a few blocks from me, reports something about the U Street neighborhood I've certainly noticed:

There's no delicate way to put this. It seems this little corner of our nation's capital is, of late, and wherefore I know not, infested with a gang of motorized wheelchair thugs. ... They're young, they're mean, and they all have matching motorized wheelchairs in which they haul ass down the avenue, occassionally twirling around, 80s breakdance style, except um, parapalegically instead of on backs.

I live above U on 13th Street, and every once in awhile when I'm walking one way or the other, barrelling down the street at speeds in excess of fifteen miles per hour (and sometimes in excess of that) here comes this young African-American man with a ginormous boom box mounted on the back of his wheelchair. For reals.

Via Yglesias on TypePad.

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posted by WWB at 6:41 PM |