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Because it’s absolutely exhilarating to throw stuff into the water (or off cliffs, or into holes, etc). Not condoning the behavior but you gotta admit it’s pret

Because it’s absolutely exhilarating to throw stuff into the water (or off cliffs, or into holes, etc). Not condoning the behavior but you gotta admit it’s pretty fun.

cheeze 4y ago
I prefer throwing things from high-up spots, but yeah I agree...
idiotsecant 4y ago
I work for a company whose product requires periodically removing trash from rivers and reservoirs. When the rent-an-e-scooter places came to my town I was absolutely sure that we would end up dredging these things out of the river by the dozens. Strangely, not many ended up in there. I haven't used one so I'm not sure how they prevent it but whatever they do is startlingly effective.
- anonred 4y ago
  Most scooters are decently heavy, maybe 40-50 lbs. Carrying one some distance to a river while it beeps at you probably takes enough effort to deter casual hooligans.
  - bluefirebrand 4y ago
    The downtown of a lot of cities has bridges over rivers that would be trivial to huck those e-scooters into. We found a car2go in the river once, apparently.
  - idiotsecant 4y ago
    Our downtown has a pretty extensive riverfront connected to the sidewalk system, it's trivially easy to ride a scooter right up to the river, lift it over a 3 foot guard rail, and pitch it into the river!
reaperducer 4y ago
Because it’s absolutely exhilarating to throw stuff into the water (or off cliffs, or into holes, etc). When I was in high school I worked at a supermarket, and one of the duties all the male high schoolers had was to round up the shopping carts twice per shift. The supermarket was built on landfill, and parking lot was a slope with a cliff at the end. Any shopping carts with wonky wheels were "accidentally" set free to roll downhill, slowly getting faster, until the front wheels hit the curb with such speed that the entire cart flipped over and tumbled down into the ravine. The ravine has since been filled in and turned into a movie theater. I wonder if there are hundreds of dead shopping carts entombed underneath.

Because it’s absolutely exhilarating to throw stuff into the water (or off cliffs, or into holes, etc). Not condoning the behavior but you gotta admit it’s pretty fun.

cheeze 4y ago

I prefer throwing things from high-up spots, but yeah I agree...

idiotsecant 4y ago

I work for a company whose product requires periodically removing trash from rivers and reservoirs. When the rent-an-e-scooter places came to my town I was absolutely sure that we would end up dredging these things out of the river by the dozens. Strangely, not many ended up in there. I haven't used one so I'm not sure how they prevent it but whatever they do is startlingly effective.

anonred 4y ago
Most scooters are decently heavy, maybe 40-50 lbs. Carrying one some distance to a river while it beeps at you probably takes enough effort to deter casual hooligans.
- bluefirebrand 4y ago
  The downtown of a lot of cities has bridges over rivers that would be trivial to huck those e-scooters into. We found a car2go in the river once, apparently.
- idiotsecant 4y ago
  Our downtown has a pretty extensive riverfront connected to the sidewalk system, it's trivially easy to ride a scooter right up to the river, lift it over a 3 foot guard rail, and pitch it into the river!

reaperducer 4y ago

Because it’s absolutely exhilarating to throw stuff into the water (or off cliffs, or into holes, etc). When I was in high school I worked at a supermarket, and one of the duties all the male high schoolers had was to round up the shopping carts twice per shift. The supermarket was built on landfill, and parking lot was a slope with a cliff at the end. Any shopping carts with wonky wheels were "accidentally" set free to roll downhill, slowly getting faster, until the front wheels hit the curb with such speed that the entire cart flipped over and tumbled down into the ravine. The ravine has since been filled in and turned into a movie theater. I wonder if there are hundreds of dead shopping carts entombed underneath.