Welcome to Dunedin: Mattress given the e-scooter treatment

Thursday, 31 January 2019

A video of two Lime scooters and a mattress in Dunedin

First it was a La-Z-Boy, now a mattress has been given the Dunedin Lime scooter treatment.

Adam Peters captured video of two men standing on a plastic covered mattress on two electric scooters on Wednesday night.

The video was shot at a Dunedin car park, near the city's one-way system.

Two men ride a mattress on top of two Lime scooters in Dunedin.

The footage comes days after Jay Budd uploaded footage of himself riding an old La-Z-Boy on top of a Lime e-scooter.

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The footage of him riding along the one-way system on Great King St was praised as 'classic Kiwi ingenuity' by commenters on Facebook.

During the e-scooters' launch in Dunedin in early January, Lime spokesman Matt McNeill said he believed the scooters would be popular with students, with thousands due back in the city in February.

University of Otago student Renee Whitehouse was on a Lime scooter that collided with a truck on the one-way system south about two weeks ago.

The 26-year-old remains in Dunedin Hospital in a serious but stable condition.