Las Vegas tourists, exhausted by the six kilometers of gluttony laid out before them, are getting around on electric "mobility scooters" in increasing numbers.

And not on trendy Vespa motorbikes. The scooters are more like updated wheelchairs.

Forking over about $ 40 a day and their pride, perfectly healthy tourists are cruising around Las Vegas casinos in transportation intended for the infirm.

You do not have to take a step. You do not even have to put your drink down.

‘’It was all the walking,’’ 27-year-old Simon Lezama said on his red Merits Pioneer 3. Lezama, a trim and fit-looking restaurant manager from Odessa, Texas, rented it on day three of his five-day vacation, ‘’and now I can drink and drive, be responsible and save my feet.’’

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