I don't really see the racism slant the article is trying to paint all over this stupidity.
That's because you don't view the police as a dangerous occupying force in your community.
Scooters littering US city streets alarm: 'Unlock me or I'll call the police'
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#12You have to be fucking kidding me
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#13This is litter and vandalism. Why aren't people calling the police/city to remove this junk from the streets, and fine the owners for illegal dumping?
There seems to be no problem, however, with devoting a majority of most city streets to the abandoning of unoccupied passenger vehicles, and littering the sidewalks with signage of instructions to motorists regarding the lawful abandonment of their vehicles. That is more offensive than pay-to-unlock scooters on the sidewalk and should be addressed first.
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#14Sounds like a lone drifter ambling about could kick down a row of these and execute a DDOS attack on whatever emergency lines the scooters are wired into.
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#15Sounds like a lone drifter ambling about could kick down a row of these and execute a DDOS attack on whatever emergency lines the scooters are wired into.
As the article says, they don't seem to actually call anything.
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#16This article says the word "police" is racist. >Built-in alarm sparks anger from city officials amid concerns over racism and policing: ‘This is a threat to people’
Unfortunately, until we have a secondary form of law enforcement that is what you should do if someone is stealing...
Who is stealing? It sounds like this is essentially abandoned property in city streets?
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#17Sounds like a lone drifter ambling about could kick down a row of these and execute a DDOS attack on whatever emergency lines the scooters are wired into.
> Repeatedly touching a scooter for 10 minutes in Oakland on Wednesday afternoon did not result in a response or call to police.
Looks like the company doesn't even make a call, probably to avoid the high fines for nuisance calls.
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#18Move fast, break things, litter, threaten to jail people - the new agile startup manifesto. I would be curious to hear the backstory of how this decision was made. Someone had to propose the idea and someone in charge had to approve. Then nobody around them chimed in with "hey this is a bad idea". Granted they were already planning on dumping their trash on the streets anyway so ethical considerations were probably not at the top of the list...
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#19I don't really see the racism slant the article is trying to paint all over this stupidity.
That's because you don't view the police as a dangerous occupying force in your community.
I view the police as dangerous but recognize their danger as a necessary cost for effectiveness.
I'm afraid of the police, but I'm more afraid of no police.
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#20This is litter and vandalism. Why aren't people calling the police/city to remove this junk from the streets, and fine the owners for illegal dumping?
No it isn't. We give free space to cars, trucks and bicycles. Why not scooters? Is it because they are owned by a corporation? If so should rental cars and car shares be banned?