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Ok, yeah that makes sense. I see them mostly used around campus, but can imagine them being a serious problem in a city. And yes you described the riders perfectly. The only positive of the scenario you described would be seeing them crash. Have to think that would be great.
Seeing them crash is great, as long as they aren't crashing into you. I'm more worried about the inevitable point I run one of these tards over with my car and have to deal with the hassle of explaining it to the authorities and getting my paint fixed.
A lot of my friends try to deal with the problem this way:
Unfortunately their pricing appears to allow for plenty of lost equipment.
People Keep Throwing Electric Scooters Into Lakes and Rivers
Companies like Bird and Lime are expanding to more and more cities—but it’s hard to do environmental remediation at scale.
slate.com
Just in October, cleanup crews fished out of the lake more than 60 electric scooters
Scoot, which was permitted to operate scooters in San Francisco in October, told the Wall Street Journal that within two weeks of launching, more than 200 of the 650 scooters they introduced had been stolen or irreparably destroyed.* The need to constantly re-supply these fleets should, at minimum, complicate the narrative of low environmental impact that these companies pitch.