CAN I add my two-penneth to the issue of feral scooter riders who appear to believe that they are completely above the law.

These tracksuit wearing ne’er-do-wells appear to be everywhere and it is surely a matter of time before they cause a serious accident.

As I understand it, riding a motorised scooter on a public highway is illegal, you can only use them on private land - unless of course they are the state-sponsored scooters much seen in cities. So you would think it would be a pretty straightforward thing to stamp them out. Pull, them over, confiscate the scooter, punish the riders and ‘passengers’ - job done.

But no, wherever you look there they are; weaving in and out of traffic, cutting on to the pavement with a total disregard for pedestrians.

If there is any form of lighting then it’s the merest pinprick of a thing, certainly not enough to alert motorists to their presence. And invariably these scooter menaces invariably are wearing dark clothes making them almost invisible at night.

Also, have you noticed how there are usually at least two on a scooter - the motorised equivalent of giving someone a ‘backie’ - I’ve even seen one incident of three on one scooter, none of them more than 12 or 13 years old.

The time has come to get tough and as was promised at the beginning of the year. get them off the streets. A seek and destroy policy should be employed on these motorised menaces - the scooters, not the riders. But give anyone caught using an illegal scooter some kind of community service.

DAVID RUSH