A Perth pensioner has become an internet sensation after zipping around the city on a children’s scooter.
Barbel Roerig (74) has been dubbed Perth Scooter Gran and has clocked up almost 3,000 Facebook fans some from as far afield as Columbia, Pakistan and New Zealand.
Perth residents are encouraged to snap pictures of the OAP and post them to the page.
The senior citizen said she had visited the Facebook page, and took it ”as a bit of fun”.
Speaking exclusively to The Courier, Ms Roerig said: ”I visited the Facebook page, but I don’t look very often. I think it’s great when I go along Tay Street I get a lot of waves from all the young men and it keeps me young.
”It has been going on for so long that I am used to it. It’s quite enjoyable getting toots from the lorry drivers. It’s funny, when I go out without the scooter no one pays any attention to me.”
She did have one minor complaint, however that the photographers failed to get her best side.
”They always catch me from the back,” she laughed. ”Sometimes people ask if they can take a photo so I put a smile on for them.”
Since hitting the net last June, 2,753 people have liked the page including 1,742 from Perth and the surrounding area.
Others have logged on to the page from South America, the US, continental Europe and the Middle East.
Not only is the German pensioner famed for riding the folding scooter, many have commented on her shopping bags which feature designs including Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Hello Kitty.
Several of the shots on the page show Ms Roerig, who moved to Perth in 1971, scooting along Athol Street.
The Facebook page’s creator heaped praise on the eccentric German, saying: ”I made the page to celebrate the awesomeness of Perth Scooter Gran after capturing a couple of photos myself and to give the people of Perth a place to share their sightings of the enigmatic lady.
”I haven’t had the opportunity to speak to her myself but one of her relatives posted on the page.
”I’m not surprised people are enthusiastic about Scooter Gran go to any other city in Scotland and you’ll find loads of interesting characters, but the majority of Perth people are too scared to be seen as anything less than ordinary.”