Am I a bad person for throwing scooters in a dumpster? [The writer only did this after repeatedly contacting the scooter company and asking them to please stop leaving scooters on their property. The scooter company ignored their many requests.]

[T.B. Yoits]

It makes very little sense that multiple scooters are left blocking one particular driveway every single night. I mean, what are the odds of that.

I suspect one of his teenage neighbors is stealing them for a free ride home and leaving them so that they're "found" instead of reported stolen.

[Stingray51]

Unless there is some way to hack them, the commercial scooters won’t run without an account linked to a credit card, all managed through an app. It’s pretty cool, but people are people. A lot of the libs hate them because they reduce the need for taxis or uber.

[rlmorel]

Funny, I think most guys have that inclination. Of course, we’re the same sex that drops bowling balls off the tops of abandoned five story buildings onto the roofs of abandoned junk cars, so there’s that…

Disclaimer: I have never done that. But I wish I had. (Saw a video)

[wgmalabama]

Little problems in the progressive big city. Sell them online as a rebrand.

[Organic Panic]

When I lived in Europe 2013 to 2018 (on and off)....

In a rather tourist city square several of those scooter companies came in and dumped off dozens of the,. Tourists rented them and buzzed around the streets crashing in to people, restaurant tables, and buildings. One guy nearly ran head in to me. After a few weeks the locals sick of them and they all ended up in the Wisla river.

[max americana]

” I will pick up the abandoned scooters on your property “

Yes, that is an actual job here in L.A. (SEE cRAIGSLIST). I personally know around 2 people who do this with a rented big van. They are provided the GPS coordinates for the scooter and they pick up. One night alone can make you $200. You have to be strong to lift those damn acooters off the ground and into the van.

The CONs: parking that van close to the scooter and not inconvenience traffic.

[rlmorel]

I get that...but I don’t think that is the case here, though I have to infer that because the article or letter is short on detail.

I alluded to the concept that the use of scooters had to be completely inclusive, which in their minds, means no involvement of money, credit cards, or identification. So they made them free to use with no strings attached, using either money grants from well meaning useful idiots (less likely) or...taxpayer dollars to buy votes (more likely)

[rlmorel]

Sigh. When it isn’t the Leftists who make this happen to fulfill their own environmental wet dreams or social engineering goals, it is gullible people with good intentions who enable it.

With predictable results. Every time.

[cquiggy]

He should take a Sawzall and cut them in half before tossing them in the dumpster.

[.44 Special]

Your behavior is not exemplary. You should have beaten each scooter thoroughly with a 12 lb. sledgehammer before binning it.

[HeadOn]

It’s easy for the scooter company to stop it. Riders have to have the scooter app on their phone to ride. The scooter company then has a credit card number. All the scooters have GPS. If you detect a scooter left in a no-parking GPS location, charge $10 extra to the one who used it. If you deny the charge on your credit card, your privileges go away.