You could have them towed, and it would cost the scooter company a bundle................. It would stop in a day...........
It is a way to communicate to the scooter companies that allowing their customers to leave scooters around on other people’s property, is not a viable long-term business model.
No, keep tossing but make sure you lift with your legs and not your back.
Am I an asshole for tossing illegally parked scooters in the trash?
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No. I swore that if one more scooter was left on the sidewalk on the Stone Arch Bridge in Minneapolis, that I would throw the scooter into the Mississippi.
Lucky for the scooter company, George Floyd was murdered and the riots. I haven’t been walking in Mpls since then.
Oh yea, on Riverside they are lined up like dead soldiers all over the place.
In one Eastern city (overrun by stupid rental bikes) the natives just started dumping them in the river—by the dozens.
Eventually the bike company got the message and fled town...
Get a big hammer and smash the batteries for a great bonfire.
If he called the company first and gave them a few days to comply, then, no.
I wonder if there is an business opportunity. I will pick up the abandoned scooters on your property (perhaps for a small subscription fee), collect them, and sell them back to the company at a discount.
Maybe a side gig???
Yes, you are an asshole for destroying property not your own. None of that - you will damage yourself psychologically. OK to move them next to the dumpster.
NO, next time, cut them up and sell them for scrap metal
I live in Santa Monica, where the scooter craze apparently started about two years ago. Both the scooters and the riders are a menace. They love to ride wherever they aren’t supposed to and they tend not to obey even basic rules of the road - such as stop signs. They are a little less prevalent now than before with the operating companies doing a slightly better job of picking them up and staging them. That said, I still don’t like them. Cyclists are bad enough.
Dear hipster writer, one error in your story about the scooter companies started leaving scooters all over the place. It’s not the scooter companies, it’s their customers! You know fellow hipsters who do not own anything, thus feel no responsibility for anything! Dude it’s someone else responsibility to clean up the scooters, maybe there should be a law…. That will make someone responsible! There can be a new fully funded Federal Agency of Responsibility! Of course they will micro manage your life…….. Dude let me give you a four letter word…. Ready? WORK!
This explains why we are seeing these things around our town and often being driven/ridden by those over age 50.
The riders/drivers want to ride on sidewalks and endanger walkers as well as themselves.
In Paris the banks of the Seine have been blocked with them long before covid. Vendors and strollers alike just grab them and chuck them over the side.
It seemed to make no difference to the companies. They must be making money by the fistful.
Maybe send the scooter companies monthly bills for the annoyance caused with documentation of the problem plus a fee on top for the processing of the bill. Save copies of bills sent. If the scooter companies don’t lay bills then sue and present the ignored bills in court so the scooter companies can’t claim ignorance of that the problem was not all.that bad etc. But don’t put them in garbage or you open yourself up to liability.
I don’t understand how this works. Don’t you have to offer some ID and/or a credit card when you rent one? If so, why wouldn’t the company charge the renters for scooters that aren’t properly returned? What am I missing?
Well in my state is someone abandons a vehicle without the property owners consent of the property owner for more than 24 hours you can actually file a motion in common pleas to terminate the owners rights to the vehicle and make it yours.
Now sadly that case won’t be heard quickly, but that is one remedy.
Others are call the cops and they will have a salvor take the vehilcle
The other is can remove ans place it into storage and bring action against vehicle owner to cover the cost of removal and storage.. once judgement is granted if owner does not pay vehicle can be sold at sheriff sale to pay judgement
No one owns the scooters, so no one feels responsible for them. People destroy things they don’t own. Public toilets. Government-provided housing. Buses. Trains.
This was predictable. It just takes a quick scan of a textbook on Social Psychology to find out why.