Birdbrains by Thom Bluemel for May 26, 2010

Can I see your registration, please?

Good Morning Thom & everyone

It’s Hump Day!

(blinks unbelievingly at this impossible scenario)

Cartoon Physics at work.

Then your both guilty.

A paraplegic speeding? Oh, c’mon!

Did somebody get the number of that……

I don’t see any skid marks.

But I do see a face in the bushes below the last letter of Thom’s signature.

Good catch, Woodeye. I missed it again!

Oh Lord, where’d I leave my medication?

Would someone please tell me where it is written that an electric wheelchair has the right to cripple me. Scuze me, I’m happy you can move at a speed faster than walking, but—

omg JoeAllen is wrong!!! He is in the crosswalk. See the stop sign,See the red no parking paint on the curb!Life is good today for this homebound reader. atleast on GOCOMICS

Lewreader ~ Sweetie it’s not an electric wheelchair. Did you try the refridgerator?

Okay is the man on the ground a magician? How did he walk through a stop sign? You would think the stop sign would stop his momentum. cartoon physics? deliberate misunderstanding on the part of the reader? Hmm…..

If any of you ever worked with chair-men, you’d know the crazy coots LOVE to hit you , side-swipe you, lame you any way they can. It’s a perk of the chair.

8: I think Lew is hover(ing) round untreatable faceism.

Where I live, I see little rascals on their Rascal Scooters in the street all the time.

Pedestrians stop at stop signs? Rediculous!

I’m offended! No, it’s not an electric wheelchair, but yes, he could get that thing up to a good speed–if not as much as a special racing chair. Either one could do real damage.

But: he still should have been able to stop–or the pedestrian should have seen him and stopped, just as I try to get out of the way of a runner, who should try to avoid me when we meet. On the other hand, as was mentioned, Cartoon Physics rule!

And why is he in the street when there’s a perfectly good sidewalk to use? Does he want to get run over by a vehicle?

Lonewolf, how dare you insinuate that the officer has the right to ask that guy for his registration. That’s the most racist remark I’ve seen from you in….forever.

(tongue in cheek again for the sarcastically impaired)

hope thats not a pinellas county cop

I don’t see any faces, just lots of toes.

If that’s the law in OK, he’s out of luck. ‘Round here, in West Dakota, if there are sidewalks, you are encouraged to use them, but if there are no sidewalks, there’s no problem using the streets, even to walk. If the street is so busy that it’s a problem, there are sidewalks.

And, as some courts have ruled, using a wheelchair (of any kind) is equivalent to walking–you cannot be arrested for drunk driving (DUI/DWI) while using a wheelchair, for example.

But, I hope you were not telling me to read the comic again. I was offended (in part) because he was in the street. And because he (apparently) injured the other person.

Nowhere does it say the wheelchair or the pedestrian were on the road.

It’s clear to me that the pedestrian had a stop sign applying to his direction at the intersection, and the wheelchair guy did not have a stop sign applying to his direction. If they were both in vehicles, the wheelchair guy would have the right of way and the guy with the stop sign would have to stop and check to make sure the way is clear before proceeding. The wheelchair guy did not have to stop and if the guy with the stop sign did not stop, then he is at fault, regardless of the wheelchair guy’s speed.

Most regular wheelchairs can go a lot faster than electric wheelchairs go. They could go even faster than the high speed of Doc’s running. Just saying. Of course never have we had contests of speed with wheelchairs.

Um…. It’s a comic! It’s supposed to be fun.

Oh, never mind if people want to be all upset over a comic they can be. It just seems to defeat the purpose of the cartoonist.

saw a dude who had strapped part of a bicycle onto his wheelchair so that it was sort of a hand-pedalled tricycle yes, he was on the road, and fast too

Interesting: there are some readers of Bridbrains who pretend to be offended, and then there are some who really are offended…more often than not at other readers.

That kind of sitting bull’s gotta drive Chief Thom Thom off his crazy horse.

(presently reconsidering his own sometimes sharp tongue in the light of the above)