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• Socialism

  This administration is destroying small business. Stop banning things. Create laws that help small business instead of going after them. Shame on De-Blasio.

• shomrim co.

  its about time

• non-gender

  Another step in big governments design to control everything in our life. Yes, they can regulate them without all the huge crocadle tears that they are professing. In many cities, even bycicles are registered for safety and crime prevention. This is another city scheme to extort money from the public to finance the Mayor’s left wing agenda. If they wanted to regulate these items for security and safety, it could be easily done and have established rules of the road.

• K

  What about electric wheel chairs? They aren’t registered by the DMV and are also not powered by muscle power.

• citizen

  it’s about time!

• Anonymous

  You mean that the manufacture of these bike is illegal? Then stop selling them. As long as they are on a legal market how can u stop consumers from its use?

  • Inda Knowe

    Use them only on private property!!

• Register and regulate

  The same way you can make them illegal, you can also make them legal. Justrrest those who drive on the sidewalk, the wrong way down the street or without a light at night.(after they deliver the food!!!)
  Leave the rest alone.

• THE ANT & THE GRASSHOPPER

  This one is a little different….
  Two Different Versions …
  Two Different Morals

  OLD VERSION:
  The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building his house and laying up supplies for the winter.
  The grasshopper thinks the ant is a fool and laughs and dances and plays the summer away.
  Come winter, the ant is warm and well fed.
  The grasshopper has no food or shelter, so he
  dies out in the cold.
  MORAL OF THE OLD STORY: Be responsible for yourself!

  MODERN VERSION:
  The ant works hard in the withering heat and the rain all summer long, building his house and laying up supplies for the winter.
  The grasshopper thinks the ant is a fool and laughs and dances and plays the summer away.
  Come winter, the shivering grasshopper calls a press conference and demands to know why the ant should be allowed to be warm and well fed while he is cold and starving..
  CBS, NBC, PBS, CNN, and ABC show up to
  provide pictures of the shivering grasshopper
  next to a video of the ant in his comfortable home with a table filled with food.
  America is stunned by the sharp contrast.
  How can this be, that in a country of such wealth, this poor grasshopper is allowed to suffer so?
  Kermit the Frog appears on Oprah with the grasshopper and everybody cries when they sing, ‘It’s Not Easy Being Green …’
  Occupy the Anthill stages a demonstration in front of the ant’s house where the news stations film the SEIU group singing, We shall overcome.
  Then Rev Al Sharpton’s assistant has the group kneel down to pray for the grasshopper while he damns the ants. The Reverend Al can not attend as he has contractual commitments to appear on his MSNBC show for which he is paid over two million dollars a year to complain that rich people do not care.
  President Obama condemns the ant and blames
  President Bush 43, President Bush 41, President Reagan, Christopher Columbus, and the Pope
  for the grasshopper’s plight..
  Nancy Pelosi & Harry Reid exclaim in an interview on The View that the ant has gotten rich off the back of the grasshopper, and both call for an immediate tax hike on the ant to make him pay his fair share.
  Finally, the EEOC drafts the Economic Equity &
  Anti-Grasshopper Act retroactive to the beginning of the summer.
  The ant is fined for failing to hire a proportionate number of green bugs and, having nothing left to pay his retroactive taxes, his home is confiscated by the Government Green Czar and given to the grasshopper.
  The story ends as we see the grasshopper and his free-loading friends finishing up the last bits of the ant’s food while the government house he is in, which, as you recall, just happens to be the ant’s old house, crumbles around them because the grasshopper doesn’t maintain it.
  The ant has disappeared in the snow, never to be seen again.
  The grasshopper is found dead in a drug related incident, and the house, now abandoned, is taken
  over by a gang of spiders who terrorize the ramshackle, once prosperous and peaceful, neighborhood.
  The entire Nation collapses bringing the rest
  of the free world with it.
  MORAL OF THE STORY: Be careful how you vote in 2016.

  I’ve posted this because I believe that you are an ant not a grasshopper! Share it only with other ants, and skip the grasshoppers because they wouldn’t understand it, anyway!

• Nobody

  So why is there no way to register these with the DMV?

  If laws don’t keep up with technology, they just confiscate the technology.

  • awacs

    Basically because they don’t have VIN’s. They don’t have VINs because the Feds decided that they are ‘consumer products’ not ‘motor vehicles’ and therefore don’t need to registered.

    Confused? So am I.

• MaDDinBklyn

  What is up with lawmakers these days rushing to put new laws in effect because of a few loudmouth complainers which also happen to effects thousands or millions of the non-complainers who don’t give a damn, and are just happy living their lives. Put the complainers in a floating bubble and leave the rest of us alone.

  • Milhouse

    What new law? There is no new law, the police are just cracking down on people who have been flouting the law for a long time.

  • Awacs

    And the law that they are starting to enforce, Milhouse, is of questionable legality due to Federal preemption. But I’m sure you knew that.