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DENVER ODD COUPLE TAKES LIME SCOOTER ON I-70 IN POURING RAIN, COPS GET CALLED

Footage of the pair has been making the rounds on social media over the past few
days, sparking countless questions.
By Chris Perez
May 14, 2023
The Denver odd couple that was caught on video cruising along I-70 on a Lime
scooter. Instagram/@chaperone_stunts
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In Colorado, it's not just love that knows no bounds.

A Denver police officer was dispatched to Interstate 70 on the morning of
Thursday, May 11, after receiving a call about a man and woman on a single Lime
scooter riding between traffic lanes on the busy highway in the pouring rain.

Footage of the unfazed odd couple has been making the rounds on social media
over the past few days, with most people wondering the same thing: Where the
hell did these two need to get to so badly? 



"We received a call for a scooter on the highway Thursday morning, shortly after
10:30 a.m.," says a Denver Police Department spokesperson. "An officer was
dispatched, but the scooter riders had left the highway by the time they
arrived."

Cell phone video posted on Instagram by an account named @chaperone_stunts
showed the pair traveling west on I-70 toward the Washington Street exit. They
were riding their scooter along lane markers between cars.



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According to the DPD, if the officer had found them, they would have been
"safely directed off the highway" and likely issued a citation for violating
Colorado Title 42, which bars low-speed electric vehicles from traveling on
state highways.
Comments have poured in on social media offering theories about the I-70 scooter
riders.
Instagram/@chaperone_stunts

"A low-speed electric vehicle may be operated only on a roadway that has a speed
limit equal to or less than 35 miles per hour," the DPD notes.

"It may be operated to directly cross a roadway that has a speed limit greater
than 35 miles per hour at an at-grade crossing to continue traveling along a
roadway with a speed limit equal to or less than 35 miles per hour," the statute
reads. However, "a low-speed electric vehicle may be operated on a state highway
that has a speed limit equal to forty."

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Denver Police dispatched an officer to find the scooter riders, but to no avail.
Instagram/@chaperone_stunts

Lime's scooter rules clearly state that only one person is allowed to ride at a
time. That, coupled with where the pair decided to take their ride, made for a
dangerous combo.

"This is very dangerous and could lead to serious injury or even death," says
the police spokesperson.



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Earlier this week — on May 7 at around 10 p.m. — two people riding one scooter
were struck and seriously injured by a car at the intersection of 18th and
Market streets. The area is in a part of LoDo where Denver's Department of
Transportation and Infrastructure is now making "multimodal travel
improvements," including a protected bike lane on Blake Street, according to
DOTI officials.

"The department encourages riders to safely operate standup scooters in areas
for which they are intended," says the DPD spokesperson. "Thankfully, it appears
[the I-70 riders] were able to exit the highway safely, and the department does
not intend to try to locate them to cite them after the fact for a low-level
traffic infraction."

Then he concludes: "Simply put, please do NOT take a standup scooter on the
highway."
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