Annoying sound aside (which they should definitely work on), slap some sort of riding saddle/ chair on that thing, and you finally have truly functional off road vehicle for the disabled community.

By the way, I am totally volunteering to test pilot such an application if anybody was wondering.

I read about these switches just a couple of days ago over at this blog: http://munigrouch.blogspot.com/2008/03/hybrid-power-switch.html
Seems as though the article was published shortly after the blog, so I have a feeling that they are reporting on the same instances...unless the teenage "pranksters" read the blog and then ran out to wreak major havoc immediately thereafter.

This is fabulous. I am in the midst of finishing/submitting my application for a legal internship with EFF this week.