[Amanda Morrison]

Originally Posted by Brandon Martus

''Every state legislator in this building has received call after call from concerned citizens awoken at midnight to what sounds like a lawn mower zooming the wrong way down the street, playing Russian roulette with oncoming traffic," said state Senator Jarrett T. Barrios, a Somerville Democrat who chairs the Joint Committee on Public Safety. ''Young people are using them in great number and with reckless abandon."

I'd like to meet the person who alters their Segway to sound like a lawnmower, and then plays chicken with a Mack truck. Yee haw.