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Loading ...Planning on partying this superbowl/FDR Open weekend? Then maybe you should check out Zingo Designated Driver service! With the increasing DUI penalties a lot of people are staying home and a lot of bars and venues are feeling the loss. In the end, nobody’s having fun. That’s where Zingo comes in. Say you’ve had too many at the bar:
-Call 877-NO DUI AZ (663-8429)
-Your fully insured driver arrives on a folding motorbike
-Folds it, bags it, puts it in your trunk
-Takes your keys
-Drives you home
Zingo Transportation, Inc. was founded in October 2005 by Atlanta entrepreneurs Jim Valentine, Charles Barfield, and PX Head. They founded Zingo to give people a viable option to the number one reason people make the bad decision to drink and drive–leaving their car behind.
February 15th, 2008 at 8:59 pm
In the UK they are known as the “scooter boys”, and have been around since the 90’s. They perform the exact same service down to the letter. Don’t take credit for other peoples work, asshats.
February 15th, 2008 at 9:03 pm
We had this in Kentucky in ‘04. “Entrepreneur” my ass.
http://www.idsnews.com/news/story.aspx?id=25858&comview=1
February 16th, 2008 at 11:54 am
Whoa, take it easy folks. I think these people are just trying to provide a service. What’s wrong with getting a ride home if you’re drunk?
February 17th, 2008 at 9:44 pm
good idea but give credit where credit is due. Not nice to borrow another’s idea for your own use without crediting the originators. Bad Karma. What goes around comes around. Besides other people have been doing the designated driver job for hundreds of years. probably had designated horsemen.
April 6th, 2008 at 2:03 pm
Wow - you people need to chill - I don’t read anywhere that they claim to have invented the idea of not driving drunk, it just sounds like they’ve offered up a great solution to make it easier on people to make the choice not to. And, the morons above should check the definition of Entrepreneur;
1. a person who organizes and manages any enterprise, esp. a business, usually with considerable initiative and risk.
2. an employer of productive labor; contractor.
April 15th, 2008 at 8:23 am
We totally agree with the whole giving credit where credit is due thing…
Scooter Patrol.started giving FREE rides home 5 years ago and DID give credit where credit was due in the media as well as on our website- www.scooterpatrol.org (see FAQ page).
There have been quite a few companies that have popped up since we started in ‘03 and claimed responsiblity for the whole concept of designated driving.
They’ve all gone under since…
If they’d done their homework they would have found out that companies like the DDA (Designated Drivers Association) and the NCPID (National Council for the Prevention of Impaired Driving) have been giving free rides home to people in their own cars for a decade! This is not to mention the UK company- Scooter Man www.scooterman.co.uk.
We’re also left to wonder about the President of Zingo- PX Head who recently killed someone drunk driving- what is it about being a convicted killer that makes him such an expert on designated driving and why in the world is he attempting to profit from same without even showing any remorse for what he did???
He should be begging the family of the guy he killed for forgiveness and volunteering for MADD- not profiting from the horrible tragedy his careless actions caused….
Scooter Patrol USA
May 19th, 2008 at 7:46 pm
Before you go bashing PX Head, read the story. He did have an accident while driving under the influence, and he killed one of his best friends. The friend’s family asked the court not to ruin his life too, and the court gave him 30 days in jail, extended probation and a 2nd chance - and told him he’d better make good of it. He did. When he ran across this business, he joined as a partner to try to help prevent future incidences like his. I’d say there’s nothing wrong with that. Don’t pick on someone for trying to do what they can to keep another mistake from being made. And the family did forgive…. Ticks me off when people go condemning others without checking out the story. Grow up.