Posted on 10/02/2019 4:39:51 AM PDT by PJ-Comix
(CNN) -- A man in Florida has been sneaking around his neighborhood tampering with electric scooters parked on the streets, police say.
The Fort Lauderdale Police Department posted a surveillance video Tuesday showing 59-year-old Randall Williams walking up to an electrical scooter on the street, slapping a white sticker on its QR code, and cutting its brake lines, essentially rendering it impossible to use.
Police say that more than 140 scooters have been disabled and vandalized in a similar way in the southeast part of Fort Lauderdale since April 5.
Officers had already homed in on Williams as a possible suspect, and the majority of the acts of vandalism happened within two blocks of his apartment.
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He’s doing the investors in scooter companies a favor.
On average a scooter costs about $750 and they get about $75 in revenue before they break down.
What a joke of a business model.
I was thinking Kramer or George Costanza as the culprit.
Kids don’t need electric scooters.
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These aren’t for kids. They are commuting rentals for all ages just left wherever the last user chooses. (meaning your home or business if that is what is convenient for the last user).
They need to develop flying scooters.
They need ones that can drive themselves to a more useful place.
Blame the scooters and not the guy who cut the brakes lines.
Blame the guns and not the shooter.
Where have we heard that rationale before?
Sounds like he’d had enough of the scooters laying around everywhere and people zipping around on them.
Exactly.
When I was a kid, kick-scooters were not popular at all. Only dorks rode them, real kids rode bikes. Now, every residential neighbourhood in the area is filled with kids on scooters.
I think he watched an episode of South Park for his inspiration.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Llt8rYCLd1Y
I thought you said use your damn foot and kick the scooter who drives padt you so fast, like buzzing past you on the sidewalk. That works.
Personal injury attorney creating a client pool?
Since this IS ‘Florida Man’ I’m surprised that he wasn’t run over and killed by one of the run-away scooters he sabotaged!
Florida Man? You’ve REALLY let us down, today! ;)
On average a scooter costs about $750 and they get about $75 in revenue before they break down.
What a joke of a business model.
If you factor in the .gov subsidies and save-the-planet credits, they still come out ahead.
The joke is on the tax payers.
“They need ones that can drive themselves to a more useful place.”
They have those.
They’re called taxis.
I wonder if a degausser would do any good in disabling these things (if pointed at the pertinent part).
How about motorized beanies with a chin strap?
CNN reporting from a Milwaukee news feed???
Yeah that’s first hand reporting
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