Q&A: ScooterCrew your drunk ass home

Besides taxi, bicycle or squad car, there’s now a new safe option that holiday drunks can use to get home: dudes on scooters.

Jeff Seabaugh is the owner of ScooterCrew, a service that dispatches a helmeted, sober, insured dude on a scooter to pick you up at the bar, pack his scooter in your trunk (in a chemically sealed bag) and drive your shit-faced responsible self home.

The Pitch sat down with him to talk about ferrying around drunks.

The Pitch: So where did this idea come from?

Seabaugh: There was a service like this started in London about a year ago. It’s enjoyed success even with their rate of public transportation. It’s gotten to be socially unacceptable to drive drunk over there.

That’s not the case here?

I don’t believe people have a real sense that there’s real consequences [for drunk driving]. I think there’s still a whole mentality that I can just take my chances.

Sort of a throwback to the good old days when a cop would pull you over, notice you were drunk and escort you home?

Or just not pull you over. What’s been shocking to me is to see people, particularly after midnight, 1 o’clock in the morning, that are staggering, stumbling drunk and they walk right by us, they walk right by the gentlemen driving cabs and they crawl into their cars and take their chances to get home.

That’s pretty scary.

It really is. I assume law enforcement is busy, but it seems to me like it’d be in the best interest to really have tighter controls over that.