The cities have reasonable legislation. There's a permitting process for getting commercial access to public space. Of course, I'm not going to conflate "reaso

The cities have reasonable legislation. There's a permitting process for getting commercial access to public space. Of course, I'm not going to conflate "reasonable" with "expedient to the growth needs of <random_startup>". Having dispensed with any decent respect for the city's prerogative to legislate commercial conduct for the well-being of all residents, the scooter companies chose to annex public sidewalks for storing their assets. As a citizen, that sort of flagrant disrespect for civil mores doesn't make me very sympathetic to whatever problems their littering policy causes the scooter-rental entrepreneurs. It's not civil disobedience to get rid of these things when they're left on the sidewalk. It is fidelity to an ideal of civil society where sidewalks are for walking, and not to be blithely annexed by people with more venture funding than manners. My preferred take would be to collect a bunch of em, pull the electronics & batteries, and weld them into a jungle-gym for a park or elementary school that needs one.