DUI in a stolen motorized Wal-Mart shopping cart

**pgg** · 01-24-09, 05:52 PM

DUI in a stolen motorized Wal-Mart shopping cart
Thursday, January 22, 2009 Share Email Print Comment
By MARSHA DORGAN
Register Staff WriterMarcos Urbano may have taken Wal-Mart’s customer service a little too far.

Around 9 p.m. Tuesday, a Napa police officer southbound on Soscol Avenue, north of Lincoln Avenue spotted something unusual driving toward him in the northbound fast lane.
As he approached the object, he discovered it was a motorized shopping cart for the disabled, worth $3,000 from Wal-Mart on Lincoln Avenue.

The officer stopped the driver — Urbano — who apparently had driven the cart from the store northbound on Soscol, police said.
Urbano, 24, of Napa, was arrested on suspicion of felony grand theft, driving under the influence and not possessing a valid drivers license.

“It was a dangerous situation. The cart doesn’t have any lights and it was dark, and he was in the fast lane of the roadway,” Napa Police Sgt. Tom Pieper said.

**Five-0** · 01-24-09, 07:25 PM

Sounds like the DUI is the least of his worries.

**TXCharlie** · 01-24-09, 07:36 PM

Do you really need a drivers' license to operate a handicap cart, like a Hovaround? They're pretty much considered to be pedestrians around here I think.

**pgg** · 01-24-09, 07:40 PM

Originally Posted by TXCharlie

Do you really need a drivers' license to operate a handicap cart, like a Hovaround? They're pretty much considered to be pedestrians around here I think.

If you are driving it down the middle of the road while under the influence of alcohol and/or drugs it is considered a motor vehicle here. The same with a lawn mower, atv, moped, etc.

**Five-0** · 01-24-09, 07:55 PM

Originally Posted by pgg

If you are driving it down the middle of the road while under the influence of alcohol and/or drugs it is considered a motor vehicle here. The same with a lawn mower, atv, moped, etc.

You really don't need to patrol around my house when I'm cutting grass.

**Jenna** · 01-24-09, 08:05 PM

Originally Posted by Five-0

You really don't need to patrol around my house when I'm cutting grass.

YouTube - Steves Riding Lawn Mower DUI Arrest Video

**pgg** · 01-24-09, 08:17 PM

Originally Posted by Five-0

You really don't need to patrol around my house when I'm cutting grass.

While you are cutting grass you aren't driving in the #1 lane of a 4 lane road are you?

**Five-0** · 01-24-09, 09:33 PM

Originally Posted by pgg

While you are cutting grass you aren't driving in the #1 lane of a 4 lane road are you?

Well, you got me there. Even I can manage to keep it in the yard.

**TXCharlie** · 01-24-09, 09:46 PM

Originally Posted by Jenna

YouTube - Steves Riding Lawn Mower DUI Arrest Video

LOL- That's a genuine classic, but I didn't know that Five-O knows his rights

Sec. 542.009. OPERATORS OF CERTAIN MOBILITY DEVICES.
(a) In this section, "motorized mobility device" means a device designed for transportation of persons with physical disabilities that:
(1) has three or more wheels;
(2) is propelled by a battery-powered motor;
(3) has not more than one forward gear; and
(4) is not capable of speeds exceeding eight miles per hour.
(b) For the purposes of this subtitle, a person operating a nonmotorized wheelchair or motorized mobility device is considered to be a pedestrian.

**Buttercup** · 01-25-09, 10:04 AM

I was almost run over by an old lady on one of those things in Wal-Mart the other day.

**Captain America** · 01-25-09, 02:03 PM

Originally Posted by Buttercup

I was almost run over by an old lady on one of those things in Wal-Mart the other day.

I can go, go , go in my Hoveround. Indoors, outdoors ,all over town...........

**IndianaFuzz** · 01-26-09, 09:27 AM

Originally Posted by Captain America

I can go, go , go in my Hoveround. Indoors, outdoors ,all over town...........

I figured you were old enough to have one of those!

**Captain America** · 01-26-09, 11:42 AM

Originally Posted by IndianaFuzz

I figured you were old enough to have one of those!

I actually took advantage of the bullet hole in my foot last year to ride one time on a Walmart cart. It was people like Buttercup, walking in the middle of the aisles, that kept me from getting the thing up to 40mph.

**lewisipso** · 01-26-09, 12:54 PM

Originally Posted by Captain America

I actually took advantage of the bullet hole in my foot last year to ride one time on a Walmart cart. It was people like Buttercup, walking in the middle of the aisles, that kept me from getting the thing up to 0.4mph.

(edited for correctness)

**Buttercup** · 01-26-09, 02:51 PM

Originally Posted by Captain America

I actually took advantage of the bullet hole in my foot last year to ride one time on a Walmart cart. It was people like Buttercup, walking in the middle of the aisles, that kept me from getting the thing up to 40mph.

Hahaha!