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Stealing is stealing. There is no excuse for it despite your "utility" excuse.

• URSpider94 9y ago
  In most jurisdictions, you'd have a very hard time prosecuting this as theft. The bikes are often left tipped over on the sidewalk, here and there around town. At most, under the law, you are probably "borrowing without permission." People (even homeless people) don't usually keep the bikes, they just dump them off somewhere in Mountain View or Sunnyvale, where either someone else picks them up and rides them or someone calls Google to come get them.