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So what was the motive for this? Obviously not money. Since he is 59, youthful vandalism is also not reason. So what motivated this guy to cut the brake lines on the scooters? Did he not know with modern surveillance, he would eventually get caught?
1 posted on 10/02/2019 4:39:51 AM PDT by PJ-Comix
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My guess would be he’d just watched a fifties’ film and TV retrospective. I remember the cut brake line being used as a tension builder quite often. Not so much after the split brake systems were introduced in 1968. Then it became all tits and car chases.


2 posted on 10/02/2019 4:43:34 AM PDT by Gen.Blather
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Crazy doesn’t need motivation.


3 posted on 10/02/2019 4:44:06 AM PDT by CaptainK ('No collusion, no obstruction, he's a leaker')
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I bet the guy got knocked over by a couple of those.


4 posted on 10/02/2019 4:44:10 AM PDT by fruser1
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Since these incidents happened within blocks of his home, I assume he was irritated by them. People on those things will run you down. Still, no way to respond. I am willing to bet the guy is a Democrat.


5 posted on 10/02/2019 4:44:18 AM PDT by bk1000 (I stand with Trump)
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Maybe motivated by more than 140 electric scooters in his neighborhood? Those things can be pesky, especially if users are inconsiderate or oblivious to their surroundings.


6 posted on 10/02/2019 4:44:47 AM PDT by Savage Rider
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Dang, that’s weird.


8 posted on 10/02/2019 4:46:32 AM PDT by Tax-chick ("The potential for miscalculation and chaos is substantial." ~ Kevin Williamson)
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I’m on my phone but I’m sure there is a photo of this somewhere.


9 posted on 10/02/2019 4:47:06 AM PDT by Larry Lucido
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Don’t give people in Denver any ideas. There’s been a lot of brouhaha over scooters there.


11 posted on 10/02/2019 4:50:09 AM PDT by real saxophonist (Yeah, well, y'know that's just like, uh... your opinion, man.)
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Tired of tripping over them on the sidewalk? Tired of looking at the things cluttering up the streetscape?

Not that this makes what he did acceptable, to be sure.


12 posted on 10/02/2019 4:51:04 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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A man in Florida...

Editors are getting tired of "A Florida man..."?

14 posted on 10/02/2019 4:55:06 AM PDT by Calvin Locke
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So what was the motive for this?

Just trying to create "original content" for his Youtube channel.

15 posted on 10/02/2019 4:55:33 AM PDT by humblegunner
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Is there anything Florida man can’t do?

Florida is the Florida of the United States.


17 posted on 10/02/2019 5:00:48 AM PDT by themidnightskulker (And then the thread dies... peacefully, in it's sleep....)
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So what was the motive for this?

???????????????????????????????????????????????????????

How about being ticked off that essentially people are being allowed to leave their junk anywhere they want, property value and neighborhood aesthetics be damned. These ugly green bikes are showing up on sidewalks around my office and it looks ridiculous and needs to be dealt with. If I just leave a series of expensive but ugly bikes around town in front of random homes should I expect them to remain there untouched? Maybe I'll just start setting up tables with yard sale type items all over town in front of whatever home I with an app to buy the items through your phone. I don't agree with cutting the brake lines but I definitely understand why he did it. I judge him completely innocent and order the plaintiff to pay all legal charges.

18 posted on 10/02/2019 5:00:54 AM PDT by bramps (It's the Islam, stupid!)
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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.


21 posted on 10/02/2019 5:04:51 AM PDT by ImJustAnotherOkie (All I know is The I read in the papers.)
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They need to develop flying scooters.


24 posted on 10/02/2019 5:06:14 AM PDT by HighSierra5
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Sounds like he’d had enough of the scooters laying around everywhere and people zipping around on them.


27 posted on 10/02/2019 5:19:06 AM PDT by pnz1 (#IMNOTWITHHER)
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Personal injury attorney creating a client pool?


32 posted on 10/02/2019 5:34:28 AM PDT by PTBAA
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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! ;)


33 posted on 10/02/2019 5:49:56 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (We come from the earth, we return to the earth, and in between we garden.~Alfred Austin)
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I wonder if a degausser would do any good in disabling these things (if pointed at the pertinent part).


36 posted on 10/02/2019 6:06:33 AM PDT by moovova (You can't buy it back if you didn't sell it to me.)
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CNN reporting from a Milwaukee news feed???

Yeah that’s first hand reporting


39 posted on 10/02/2019 6:34:48 AM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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