with the booming voice
"SCOOTERS are NOT art cars"
although somewhat annoyed by the timing
- the individual in question had echoed a sentiment of
mine for motorized vehicles of any sort on the playa/esplanade
- just putting a teddy bear on them thar handles is a
lame attempt at camouflage. I really liked one person's idea of a
flying carpet - mo' shit like that please.
This later spun on in my brain with crazy fantasies of the jawas'sandcrawler (Star Wars-where the droids end up on Tatooine) opening up
a huge maw to capture the poorly decorated scooters and carting them
off to a pink furry lined "jail" - but I imagine that a few folks may
not take it in good fun depending on what you injest (multiple guys in
glowing eyes and shady robes pokin' fun at ya).
I do think some modified form of an art car avenger/scooter-scooper
would be fun though. Say, some sort of helpful "modification" area
where the scooper carts the driver and vehicle off to be altered... and
if they are too chicken, a special paper wrap that looks like tar and
feathers would be the prize. There could be all sorts of burnable
materials that could be used for the decorations, in case they don't
want to stay with the decorations when it is done. One could also use
up some of the left overs from playabikes and costumes - fake furs,
baby heads, extra EL wire and LED doodads and MOOP recycling gewgaws.
With the precaution that the person knows these aren't burnable.
It'd even be fun to give them a "manual"
with a pamphlet format along the lines of Using Your New Playascooter.
Replete with helpful lists of imaginary road signs, proper lighting of the rider, general safety stuff .
For example every twenty words on one page could have the "subliminal" italics DRINK WATER.
Of course if they reeeally felt bad some one could give em a nice ol' paddlin' if they're nice.
Any suggestions or input out there?
