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In the spirit of dumping potentially dangerous clutter on the streets and leaving it up to the cities to pay for the cleanup, I'm now taking seed money for my "

In the spirit of dumping potentially dangerous clutter on the streets and leaving it up to the cities to pay for the cleanup, I'm now taking seed money for my "handgun as a service" business. I'm going to blanket key areas with handguns that you can unlock with an GPS-enabled app. Once you're done using them ($1 per minute and $20 per-bullet, with "surge" pricing in active-shooter situations), just leave them anywhere in the city for the next user/child to stumble across. Anyone want to fund me?

randyrand 8y ago
How about a nuclear bomb rental service? dockless nuclear bombs. Surely that's an even better comparison! /s
tantalor 8y ago
The Onion was there first, https://www.theonion.com/chicago-introduces-new-citywide-gun-sharing-stations-1819577357 https://www.theonion.com/chicago-introduces-new-citywide-gun... Also appeared as an art piece, http://wgntv.com/2018/05/11/gun-share-public-art-exhibit-front-and-center-in-daley-plaza/ http://wgntv.com/2018/05/11/gun-share-public-art-exhibit-fro...
patall 8y ago
Exactly. I am also super annoyed by all the cheap shared bikes that now clutter our city and are very often parked in the middle of the pedestrian path. Same for shared cars that more often than not are parked in a non parking zone so that people with a baby buggy (or in a wheel chair) have to walk on the street to get around. Share economy would be nice if people would not treat everything like rubbish that they don't own.
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jlebar 8y ago
> In the spirit of dumping potentially dangerous clutter on the streets and leaving it up to the cities to pay for the cleanup ... In the same spirit, I was thinking of starting a car rental service. :)
- alasdair_ 8y ago
  >In the same spirit, I was thinking of starting a car rental service. :) Good! Car rental services pay taxes for each vehicle they sell and an (implied) per-mile tax from gas taxes. They are also banned from sidewalks.
  - mikeash 8y ago
    Bikes and scooters are banned from sidewalks in a lot of places too, but it doesn't seem to take.

randyrand 8y ago

How about a nuclear bomb rental service? dockless nuclear bombs. Surely that's an even better comparison! /s

tantalor 8y ago

The Onion was there first, https://www.theonion.com/chicago-introduces-new-citywide-gun-sharing-stations-1819577357 https://www.theonion.com/chicago-introduces-new-citywide-gun... Also appeared as an art piece, http://wgntv.com/2018/05/11/gun-share-public-art-exhibit-front-and-center-in-daley-plaza/ http://wgntv.com/2018/05/11/gun-share-public-art-exhibit-fro...

patall 8y ago

Exactly. I am also super annoyed by all the cheap shared bikes that now clutter our city and are very often parked in the middle of the pedestrian path. Same for shared cars that more often than not are parked in a non parking zone so that people with a baby buggy (or in a wheel chair) have to walk on the street to get around. Share economy would be nice if people would not treat everything like rubbish that they don't own.

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jlebar 8y ago

> In the spirit of dumping potentially dangerous clutter on the streets and leaving it up to the cities to pay for the cleanup ... In the same spirit, I was thinking of starting a car rental service. :)

alasdair_ 8y ago
>In the same spirit, I was thinking of starting a car rental service. :) Good! Car rental services pay taxes for each vehicle they sell and an (implied) per-mile tax from gas taxes. They are also banned from sidewalks.
- mikeash 8y ago
  Bikes and scooters are banned from sidewalks in a lot of places too, but it doesn't seem to take.