there was a story about someone kidnapping all the scooters and piling them up in one parking lot, cops were called

i think it was in the Seattle area. In my town, we have a river running through the central space and so many of these scooters end up in the river

when I was a trouble making boy, we'd steal bikes and build ramps to jump into the river on the bikes, they lower the river for a few months every year and it was always a good laugh to see how many bikes were piled up in our favorite spots

my hometown is full of deviants, so I'm never surprised about seeing that kind of behavior

my cameras are always catching some young person looking for trouble, taking one to know one I make sure to keep everything valuable out of sight and behind locks

Those scooters exist in Romania? I would've thought they'd get stolen on Day 1, scrapped for parts and sold online lol.

Oof, a cryin shame, no one down there is even goin to find it useful.

I started digging into this but it seems that the OS protects hardware identifiers from apps.

what's an IMEI?

Yeah I was being facetious. Those things annoy me so much all I want to do is throw them into a dumpster.

Check the community

I mean within season

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Well you see, permits can be rejected, and the time spent getting a permit is time spent not making money, so by requesting a permit after they dump them in a city and get people hooked on the idea they can make money during that time and build a customer base to advocate for them. Because governments would never apply regulations to misbehaving businesses! What do you think this is, China?

Seriously though, the success of these scooter and bike share services just goes to show the innate demand for better public transit that our cities aren't meeting, and by partnering with these micromobility companies they're basically giving up on actually providing for their citizens needs