• thisbenzingring@lemmy.today
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    3 days ago

    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

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      3 days ago

      Everyone hates those fucking things. Always blocking the sidewalk and nearly getting run over every fucking block. It is everyone’s civic duty to throw them in the fucking river if presented the opportunity.

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        3 days ago

        Part of that is anti-social behavior as a response to living in America, but also if people aren’t parking them correctly, there’s not enough parking room. If people are riding on sidewalks, there’s not enough divided bike lane.

        Here in Nanning, during rush hour, theres places where 2-lane wide bike paths are completely packed with hundreds of mopeds per minute, much more than the 5 lane car road next to it can transport.

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          Oh absolutely. Though it has been a point of frustration how often they get put in bike corrals. Cyclists who own our bikes need those to lock our bikes up.

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            2 days ago

            I meant it the other way; the city not building enough room for parking 2-wheeled vehicles leads to people throwing them wherever. In the picture, they’re just past the limit and people have started to resort to not giving a shit. Spending a hundred bucks adding an extra bike rack is so trivial next to reallocating RoW from cars to more efficient modes of transportation.

            This is also supported by cops coming along and stealing anything illegally parked during the night.

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        3 days ago

        I’d be against it, but our river is already a massive PCB wasteland from the papermill and other industry dumping.

        all jokes aside, don’t throw shit in the waterways