New York businessmen depend on them, Japanese teenagers can't live without them, and they're all the rage among Israeli schoolchildren. The simple scooter is supreme. Policemen ride scooters in Berlin . At some Wal-marts, employees scoot down the megastore's endless aisles.
Scooters are handy for restaurant deliveries.
Prince Harry is said to scoot the long halls of the royal palaces. The streamlined silver scooters people are riding today debuted in Germany in 1993. These nifty new toys became a craze elsewhere in Europe, Australia , and Asia before reaching North American shores. By spring 2000, New York City, southern California , and Hawaii had become the U.S. scooter centers. Meanwhile, in Japan scooters are a national obsession.