Scooter races can be dangerous, especially in a motor home park for seniors when the seniors are the ones doing the racing. A California health insurance<\/a> agent prevented the worst carnage: the financial kind. \u201cI think we should set up a race track,\u201d suggested Tony Pilano, at 79, a near-octogenarian assumed to be Elysium\u2019s (more…)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Scooter races can be dangerous, especially in a motor home park for seniors when the seniors are the ones doing the racing. A California health insurance agent prevented the worst carnage: the financial kind. 74-year-old Padraig O\u2019Brien loved to watch…<\/span><\/p>\n
\n74-year-old Padraig O\u2019Brien loved to watch those scooter commercials on TV. \u201cYou can have your scooter, with no out-of-pocket expense,\u201d the announcer crooned. Like several of his friends at the Elysium Trailer Park in Oxnard, Padraig was otherwise confined to a wheelchair. One day Padraig and several peers purchased dandy electric-powered scooters using their Medicare Supplement insurance policies to help defray their cost. Visiting the Grand Canyon while maneuvering among crowds of tourists on their scooters didn\u2019t appeal to anyone at Elysium, but once everyone had their scooters, something else became evident: the thrill of scooter speed.<\/p>\n