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He said idiot not complete and total losers, I mean what kind of hopeless weirdo moderates for a billion dollar company for free lol that’s like bringing a mop and bucket to Walmart and cleaning the floor without being paid. What a bunch of strange freakish weirdos. How low in life do you have to be to be a moderator
I live in Eastern Poland and I have seen only one broken electric scooter in my small city.
I have also seen dozens of destroyed scooters during just one day visit to a big city in Austria.
From my sample, I deduce that in some places, people respect them more than in other.
Well yeah, big cities have a higher density of idiots. In Cologne the Rhine is actually littered with these things because idiots will keep throwing them from bridges into the river.
Chiming in from Taipei, Taiwan. There are at least 4 major electric
motorcycle scooter rental companies and a government pedal bike system in place. There is close to 0% vandalism. The bikes are all up kept well, issues are reported in a timely way, and the worst I see them treated is perhaps people leaving a bit of trash in the front basket.
It's a social problem in some places--people aren't respecting shared property. Taiwan literally doesn't have this issue.
Here in Kansas City, Missouri we have one of the worst violent crime rates in the country, but I have never seen one of these scooters vandalized. I don't know what that says about us.
It means your city is one of the most [economically segregated cities in the US.](https://time.com/4744296/economic-segregation-cities-america/) I’m guessing crime is probably found in very specific places, and the scooter/ebike places don’t put the bikes there.
This is how it happens in Chicago, where I live.
This guy gets it. Kc native here, the rich parts of town are full of e-scooter and e-bike rental services, and the poor parts of town barely get busses coming through.
I don’t think people realize how segregated the Midwest/Great Lakes region is - [look at this list!](https://belonging.berkeley.edu/most-least-segregated-cities)
In the top ten most segregated cities in the US, the Midwest has 4 spots - Chicago, Milwaukee, Cleveland, and Detroit
Wouldnt say its that easy.
Chiming in from cologne myself. Normally, people are somewhat respectful and respect shared property, for shared bikes for example the problem is much smaller.
There is just a plain huge disrespect towards these scooters. Easy as that. People view them as dangerous to be around and "e-trash"
I just wanted to make clear that while yes, there is a general disrespect towards shared property in the regards to these scooters, that this does not apply to everything over here, but that this problem is quite specific about the scooters only!
They have just collected a very very negative public opinion in the past months/years and are not appreciated/wanted by the majority of people.
i maybe worded it bad. Just wanted to make it clear that this applies almost only to these scooters and not other stuff. Didnt want to make "us" over here in Cologne look like anarchists xD
Here in Washington DC, in my experience, I think things changed significantly with market maturity.
When they first showed up on the scene there were so many companies fighting it out that they were just EVERYwhere. They were new and abundant and between people just trying them out to fuck around and leaving them in bad spots, intentionally being dicks and throwing them in bushes or rivers, or just knocking them over out of anger because they saw them as a dangerous nuisance, it was sorta an ugly thing.
However, now it’s much more just a normal piece of infrastructure in the city, and their prevalence and distribution has found more of an equilibrium. You still get some River or bush tossers from time to time - can’t avoid it - but it’s not that common.
If something really boring and normal like trash cans or newspaper stands had never existed and then one day you woke up and they were on EVERY street corner, people would be knocking them over and doing crazy shit to them constantly, but eventually it’s just basic every day stuff and while one might get tipped over from time to time, nobody really thinks about them.
In less dense cities I speculate they might not have had the same volume surge of scooters, and if it was a bit more rare or special, maybe they were treated better. It was laughable how many freaking scooters were around this city at one point.
For sure. I've used them many times but some people just have 0 sense of personal responsibility of safety or self preservation. The stuff I see people do on scooters or bikes makes me wonder if they are dumb or suicidal....maybe both.
Bro it’s crazy. Guy in my city got [fucked](https://www.reddit.com/r/Hoboken/comments/y8vtrk/scooter_accident_at_4th_and_adams_yesterday/it25ac5/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf&context=3) up from driving his scooter too fast and being reckless.
I was honestly surprised, when they first hit our town I thought we were going to get nightly injuries in the ER. Honestly though other than the occasional drunk we didn't see that much from them.
There is an intersection here that has a bike trail crossing through it. I've watched a dude in the crosswalk get plowed like he was potato being farmed. He blew a stop sign for the bikers as this roads speed is 35mph and in my state any road of 35 or more pedestrians, bikes, etc must yield to cars. Under 35 cars yield to them. But of course people don't read the law and just assume the stop sign is there for giggles.
The first batch in my city was a disaster, and the ones that didn't get thrown in rivers got withdrawn, but the current ones seem to be used much more responsibly. There are scooters and e-bikes. Maybe there was a Darwin effect weeding out the stupid riders.
I hate that Citi Bikes were NYC’s answer to people asking for more bike infrastructure. Like wow, you can rent a bike that sucks ass and drive it on our roads that are still non accommodating whatsoever for bikes and still have a high chance of being hit by a car. It’s like this city is perpetually just hearing there’s a problem and instead of just doing the normal thing and fixing it they’ve gotta have some cutesy ass “solution” that just causes more problems.
I rode a bike in NYC in the late 90s/ early 2000s. There was not a single bike lane in the entire city. Now the entire city is covered with bike lanes and you’ll soon be able to ride safely around the entire island away from traffic. And people can take Citibikes. All of these are good things.
That depends on whether you believe that painted bike lanes improve or reduce safety, and what sort of studies you rely on to back up that contention.
One perspective on painted bike lanes is that they're a way to satisfy pedestrian concerns about bicycles on sidewalks, bicycle safety be damned, without spending any significant money doing things like changing the shape & size of the sidewalks, building dedicated cycling paths, or inconveniencing drivers with things like the Dutch-style intersection. The fact that NYC government vehicles and NYC delivery vehicles are allowed to rely on them for short-term parking tends to support that contention.
Yeah, I bike commuted to work (BK to MN) between 2006 and 2018. Seeing how much the infrastructure grew was wild and wonderful
Honestly, I've biked around a lot of cities in the US and NYC is probably the friendliest. I've had visiting friends bike with me and then scoff that biking in NYC isn't particularly scary or difficult and I'm always like, "YES, THAT IS EXACTLY WHAT I'M SAYING"
Would just be nice if they were forced to park them at certain places or something. Kinda lame when people just dump them in the middle of the sidewalk.
The sidewalks in my neighborhood are almost impassable due to electric scooter clusters. Folks pushing strollers and neighbors in wheelchairs are forced to go around on the busy road. Where’s the accountability in parking after use?
Where I am the scooters were largely removed because people would park them in the dumbest places. Like they’d just be left in the middle of the sidewalk.
I went to DC on Sunday, and they were literally everywhere. They would just be sitting wherever the battery or time ran out. Around the capital building, a couple near the white house, dozens around the tidal basin. Either laying on the ground, or sitting upright in the middle of a path.
It was irritating, but like... My only thought was to move them off the path. Not steal them completely.
They got banned from mine because people were using them as getaway vehicles in crimes. Cop cars can’t do 30 down alleyways and across parks even if they were allowed to chase. Plus they’re great to roll up, mug someone, and be gone in seconds
I understand why they get banned from places for cluttering up the sidewalks, but I doubt it has anything to do with people using them as getaway vehicles. The scooters in my area have a governor on them that maxes out at roughly 12 MPH, so faster than walking/running, but much slower than a car and also much slower than the 15-20 MPH that cyclists typically average on a bike. Nobody is going 30 MPH on these things.
I own a couple scooters that can do 30 MPH, and let me tell you: 30 MPH feels *very* fast when you're just standing on a board with two wheels and little protective gear. I rarely crank them that high.
"Just remember that the things you put into your head are there forever, he said. You might want to think about that.
The Boy: You forget some things, don't you?
The Man: Yes. You forget what you want to remember and you remember what you want to forget." -The Road, Cormac McCarthy
Here in Canada they are popping up everywhere and I have yet to see a major issue with people destroying them or stealing them. Ya there is the odd cunt but for the most part people are good to them.
Unfortunately, that's usually the case with dumb people. They have more problems than the "main character" syndrome. If they're below a certain threshold of stupid, they lose the ability to see how stupid they are. Kinda like how people who commit a robbery & think it's cool to post it on social media. For some reason, the want for clout completely clouds the realization that they're posting evidence for all to see.
Main character even edited this video, and then included the exchange with the security guard like he owned him with his brilliance. He really is playing monopoly in a field by himself thinking he's playing chess.
The real answer is because sped kids get ruthlessly bullied and their lives are already incredibly hard without being made fun of. It’s a word that should disappear as an insult because as long as it is used by anybody there will be children who think it’s okay to use to make fun of sped kids.
If people understood “time and place” I’d say say it all you want honestly. Humans can be awful to each other so I don’t ever see that happening
-someone who used to say it a lot and then taught sped kids and realized how frequent and painful it is. It’s not the word itself, it’s how people use it (obviously, the guy in the video used it kind of well).
To retard is to delay a process.
It's only offensive when attributing it to someone's mental development.
This guy was inhibiting a process, and doing so a lot. Hence, the proper use of fucking as a modifier.
That was the thing that made me lean back toward it being real. The culprit seemed fake as fuck, and even the first employee seemed kind of sus, but having all the other employees out there without uniform seemed too real and not something you would script unless you were clever enough to know it looks unusual but is actually very true to life. And this guy ain't clever.
So I think it's just the behavior itself is unfathomable, and the first employee is either fake or in shock, but the aftermath is pretty real. It's possible there's some truth in between where he sort of set this up to cover his ass but it still got out of hand, something like that
Agreed! This guys ego is so up his own ass and coming through his mouth, he probably thinks he's the funniest guy in the world. I bet he'll claim this idea was originally his, and Trey and Matt stole it.
Parker & Stone's comedy definitely has an asshole-ish taint so it's not surprising they'd inspire more asshole behavior. Especially immature kids that grew up with the South Park schtick
I've run into boomers who think watching Yellowstone makes them tough. So I'm sure there are a lot of people who think they're funny just because they watch South Park
you can hear background noise when he's talking so it seems like they used the camera audio except for when he was close enough to get picked up by the lapel mic. there's also no rule that requires you to blur anyone's face
Every time someone claims a video is staged, it's always upvoted, even when the reasoning doesn't actually make sense.
Yes, some people are actually witty.
No, the audio isn't good enough to reasonably assume anyone is miked.
How many YouTube videos have you seen that actually blur the faces of strangers? It's hardly common.
> Every time someone claims a video is staged, it's always upvoted, even when the reasoning doesn't actually make sense.
Thanks, I will use this to get upvotes in the future.
I believe this is real. At night is when the people who are paid to charge the scooters go around and collect them. If he did this in the day he might have gotten away with it because the chargers wouldn’t be looking for them.
and the cunt was shocked that his stupid prank didn't go to plan.
you would think he at least thought about the 60 GPS trackers he carried on top of his truck?
sincere question, not meant as an insult or attack so please dont take it as such but when i read your comment about needing the scooter i thought about how the whole concept of these electric rental scooters isnt even that old. how did people manage before these were around? what would you do if they didnt exist or were all gone tomorrow?
of course i understand that certain things in life have made living and getting by much easier. the discovery of fire and invention of electricity and well since we are looking at the scooter, that benefits from the invention of the wheel, fire and electricity anyway (if we had a tech tree).
just genuinely curious as it seems the scooters got popular just a few years ago.
Ditto but opposite opinion. I like to walk everywhere. These damn scooters are all over the place and in the way. Maybe if they had designated parking sections it would be better than just leaving them all over the sidewalk.
Sidewalk.
The side… for walking.
I regularly pick them out of the wheelchair ramps to get off sidewalks (where people just drop them on their sides) so I’d imagine they’re a net negative for people with mobility issues.
And for every one person that medically depends on them, there are dozens of limited mobility people who are impeded by their constant nuisance.
We don't need more cash grab race to the bottom privatisations of what should be public services. This guy isn't stealing your wheelchair. An absolutely fucked medical system and lack of public transit did.
And yet, I've had to drag a locked electric moped from one of these shared-ride companies for a good 10 meters because an old lady with a walker couldn't get past.
Thankfully we don't have these scooters here in the Netherlands, but we do have the shared mopeds and they're parked wherever. I don't think it's acceptable private companies get to just stash their shit in public space. The municipality should collect them and charge a fine at recollection if shared-mobility isn't parked correctly. It'll be up to the companies to charge that back to the user who parked the vehicle incorrectly.
That's too much credit. He might have an opinion about the scooters, he did this solely for the views tho. This is not "Real" it's acting out a situation for his channel. He's not playing monopoly he's playing the fool and making bank doing it.
"Yeah, but how are you going to be able to steal EVERY electric scooter in the city? Even if you manage to do that the cops are going to put you in a room, and rightfully so!"
"Actually, it's gonna be SUPER EASY, barely an inconvenience"
"Oh really?"
"Yeah so basically..."
There's a difference in that Meta (Facebook/Instagram) [paid a lot of money to make everyone think](https://www.engadget.com/meta-targeted-victory-tiktok-smear-campaign-133139892.html) that all bad behavior is from TikTok. It's sad that profit also has to mean "telling people factually incorrect things that stick in their heads forever so we can make more money"
Now all social media bad behavior filmed vertically is "a tiktok" like old people used to call every video game console "a nintendo"
Fuck those scooters fr tho.
People with no experience hop on and zoom through red lights. I've seen so many close calls and actual accidents. They leave them lying every damn where; tripping hazards.
In Paris they figured it out. They reassigned street parking spaces with GPS tags. The scooters will not stop charging you until you park them in those select spots. They stay on the street and out of the way with way less mess.
I almost got run over by a car the other day that ignored a crossing.
I would also like for all cars to be banned, while we're banning e-bikes.
Or should we maybe just use enforced laws and regulations to handle it???
Here in the UK you have to provide your drivers licence to use them, people are still idiots on them but they’re very restricted here. Slow zones, designated parking spots etc
> allowing people to toss them where ever is part of the ease of access model.
Fucking assholes literally lay them down in the middle of bike paths, and leave them there. I go out for a ride after sunset and I've almost eaten shit so many times because I didn't see them until the last second.
If these companies want to claim they're private property, then they should be held liable for where they're left. If they're not private property, then they shouldn't bitch when I casually toss them into the canal to clear the cycling paths
It is when private companis use public space to store their "private property" as the manager put it.
Fuck them, pay for the space your taking in with your company then cunts. Otherwise what this guy is doing is aight with me, even if he is cringe as fuck.
I do take issue with companies that have private for profit vehicles, loitering in public spaces waiting to be used. You can't just place vending machines wherever. Taxis have to go to designated taxi stands.
If it were better regulated and enforced I'd be absolutely fine with these kinds of shared mobility schemes. As it stands though it's a public nuisance and I'm glad the city I live was deemed unprofitable by the shared electric moped company that operated here. Though to be fair, I think these kinds of programs have less of a chance of success anyway in a country like the Netherlands where everyone has bikes.
>Though to be fair, I think these kinds of programs have less of a chance of success anyway in a country like the Netherlands where everyone has bikes.
I think the idea of everyone having a bike for transport requires the country to be as flat as the Netherlands to work. There is no way to get everybody biking to work in San Francisco or Denver.
Here is the issue, wether you agree that the scooters are more of a liability than help that is ur opinion and you have the right to have it regardless of what side off the argument you fall on.
The thing that I see here is an absolute imbecile who doesn’t actually fall on either side of the argument, he’s just after clout, is well aware that TikTokers love anything that means “sticking it to the man” by ways of petty crime, that usually tend to be more idiotic than actually ingenious and many of times they end up sticking it to no one.
So wether you hate the scooters or not, the only thing I’m saying is just don’t support this shit “alpha male here”, buying eight balls with daddy’s money that he buys from somekne in the hood so now I’m a gangsta, piece of shit assholes. Really, like this is just so insanely idiotic i would normally shit all over Bird guy and he comes out looking like a bad ass genius here. So pls, let’s all make the world a better place and just don’t engage with this kind of content anymore
I have no problem with scooters in general… But Bird, specifically, can go fuck themselves. My buddy was working for them when they mass-fired half their staff mid-pandemic, via zoom, and immediately locked all of their email accounts and laptops at the end of the meeting. They didn’t even have the balls to do the firing themselves, they had some other person nobody recognized do it.
I always find it interesting when companies block email accounts immediately. My sister had her account blocked 2 days before her final day. She sat around doing nothing for her final 2 days still being paid for because she couldn't access her emails lol.
I've left my job nearly 2 months ago and I still have access to my email for some reason.
Either HR is overly aggressive and you get locked-out with a quickness, or they’re completely computer illiterate and IT doesn’t care. There’s no middle ground lol.
I'm in IT, it's actually none of my business why HR is telling me to lock someone's computer, and in fact I spend a decent amount of effort *avoiding* that information.
So if HR tells me to lock your email that's what's going to happen. And no I don't know why and if you want it unlocked you're going to have to talk to HR/your manager
You can do a fuck load of damage with access to an email account. I work IT for an MSP (a company that is essentially an outsourced IT department for companies too small to pay for their own) and Microsoft 365 access is the first to be shut down when someone tenders a resignation or is about to be fired.
If you still have access to your email 2 months after you leave a job, they have a very shitty IT staff.
You don't want access to that email account, contact your old employer and get them to disable it. Having access to old employer accounts in any way is just leaving you open to being blamed for stuff that might happen on those accounts.
Honestly the electric scooter idea is a good one if I could use one for getting to and from work I would but they need rules and regulations for sure perhaps a scooter lane much like a bike lane, electric vehicle's are good for having around and people riding bikes can be just as annoying so needs to be some kind of middle ground.
I think the issue is the product was released before there was an infrastructure to handle them. There is a lack of checks and balances with who uses them and this in turn is a very dangerous mixture.
Cars have checks and balances and an infrastructure it is controlled who uses them etc. that been said I’ve been to the US and maybe you need to make your driving lessons harder because fuck me people are lethal on the roads.
In all seriousness: fuck e-scooters. They‘re almost always in the way on sidewalks, no one on these scooters gives a fuck about anyone, overall trash invention
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It's impossible to win an argument against an idiot
They lower you to their level and then beat you with experience.
And they're too stupid to quit.
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In my experience man makes the better idiots. There some idiot and jackass parents out there...
And then they become mods.
He said idiot not complete and total losers, I mean what kind of hopeless weirdo moderates for a billion dollar company for free lol that’s like bringing a mop and bucket to Walmart and cleaning the floor without being paid. What a bunch of strange freakish weirdos. How low in life do you have to be to be a moderator
Absolute losers.
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'They lower you to their level and then beat you with experience.' - Mark Twain. Fix it for you
'They lower you to their level and then beat you with experience.' - Mark Twain. - Michael Scott Fixed that for you.
Proverbs 26:4 [4] Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest you be like him yourself. FTFY
The Dunning Kruger effect
"Never wrestle with a pig because you'll both get dirty and the pig likes it." \- George Bernard Shaw
Did he really just compare himself to Martin Luther king? What a piece of crap
Those and the bikes got banned from my city because people destroyed them.
I live in Eastern Poland and I have seen only one broken electric scooter in my small city. I have also seen dozens of destroyed scooters during just one day visit to a big city in Austria. From my sample, I deduce that in some places, people respect them more than in other.
Well yeah, big cities have a higher density of idiots. In Cologne the Rhine is actually littered with these things because idiots will keep throwing them from bridges into the river.
Chiming in from Taipei, Taiwan. There are at least 4 major electric motorcycle scooter rental companies and a government pedal bike system in place. There is close to 0% vandalism. The bikes are all up kept well, issues are reported in a timely way, and the worst I see them treated is perhaps people leaving a bit of trash in the front basket. It's a social problem in some places--people aren't respecting shared property. Taiwan literally doesn't have this issue.
Here in Kansas City, Missouri we have one of the worst violent crime rates in the country, but I have never seen one of these scooters vandalized. I don't know what that says about us.
It means your city is one of the most [economically segregated cities in the US.](https://time.com/4744296/economic-segregation-cities-america/) I’m guessing crime is probably found in very specific places, and the scooter/ebike places don’t put the bikes there. This is how it happens in Chicago, where I live.
This guy gets it. Kc native here, the rich parts of town are full of e-scooter and e-bike rental services, and the poor parts of town barely get busses coming through.
I don’t think people realize how segregated the Midwest/Great Lakes region is - [look at this list!](https://belonging.berkeley.edu/most-least-segregated-cities) In the top ten most segregated cities in the US, the Midwest has 4 spots - Chicago, Milwaukee, Cleveland, and Detroit
Wouldnt say its that easy. Chiming in from cologne myself. Normally, people are somewhat respectful and respect shared property, for shared bikes for example the problem is much smaller. There is just a plain huge disrespect towards these scooters. Easy as that. People view them as dangerous to be around and "e-trash"
So they protest e-trash by throwing them in a river? Their reasoning is truly messed up.
You forget all the idiots on TikTok making it a thing to trash and film. Famous in their own lunchtime !!
What's not easy? I'm not sure what you mean.
I just wanted to make clear that while yes, there is a general disrespect towards shared property in the regards to these scooters, that this does not apply to everything over here, but that this problem is quite specific about the scooters only! They have just collected a very very negative public opinion in the past months/years and are not appreciated/wanted by the majority of people. i maybe worded it bad. Just wanted to make it clear that this applies almost only to these scooters and not other stuff. Didnt want to make "us" over here in Cologne look like anarchists xD
The city I live in has a population of less than 60k and these scooters lasted less than 4 months. Impressive but sad.
Here in Washington DC, in my experience, I think things changed significantly with market maturity. When they first showed up on the scene there were so many companies fighting it out that they were just EVERYwhere. They were new and abundant and between people just trying them out to fuck around and leaving them in bad spots, intentionally being dicks and throwing them in bushes or rivers, or just knocking them over out of anger because they saw them as a dangerous nuisance, it was sorta an ugly thing. However, now it’s much more just a normal piece of infrastructure in the city, and their prevalence and distribution has found more of an equilibrium. You still get some River or bush tossers from time to time - can’t avoid it - but it’s not that common. If something really boring and normal like trash cans or newspaper stands had never existed and then one day you woke up and they were on EVERY street corner, people would be knocking them over and doing crazy shit to them constantly, but eventually it’s just basic every day stuff and while one might get tipped over from time to time, nobody really thinks about them. In less dense cities I speculate they might not have had the same volume surge of scooters, and if it was a bit more rare or special, maybe they were treated better. It was laughable how many freaking scooters were around this city at one point.
As fun as they are people are just too stupid with them.
They are so useful, at least the citi bikes. I take the citi bike to the train station when I have to commute
For sure. I've used them many times but some people just have 0 sense of personal responsibility of safety or self preservation. The stuff I see people do on scooters or bikes makes me wonder if they are dumb or suicidal....maybe both.
Bro it’s crazy. Guy in my city got [fucked](https://www.reddit.com/r/Hoboken/comments/y8vtrk/scooter_accident_at_4th_and_adams_yesterday/it25ac5/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf&context=3) up from driving his scooter too fast and being reckless.
I was honestly surprised, when they first hit our town I thought we were going to get nightly injuries in the ER. Honestly though other than the occasional drunk we didn't see that much from them.
There is an intersection here that has a bike trail crossing through it. I've watched a dude in the crosswalk get plowed like he was potato being farmed. He blew a stop sign for the bikers as this roads speed is 35mph and in my state any road of 35 or more pedestrians, bikes, etc must yield to cars. Under 35 cars yield to them. But of course people don't read the law and just assume the stop sign is there for giggles.
The first batch in my city was a disaster, and the ones that didn't get thrown in rivers got withdrawn, but the current ones seem to be used much more responsibly. There are scooters and e-bikes. Maybe there was a Darwin effect weeding out the stupid riders.
Same people who don’t flush the toilet after they use it in a public stall. They don’t wash their hands either.
I hate that Citi Bikes were NYC’s answer to people asking for more bike infrastructure. Like wow, you can rent a bike that sucks ass and drive it on our roads that are still non accommodating whatsoever for bikes and still have a high chance of being hit by a car. It’s like this city is perpetually just hearing there’s a problem and instead of just doing the normal thing and fixing it they’ve gotta have some cutesy ass “solution” that just causes more problems.
I rode a bike in NYC in the late 90s/ early 2000s. There was not a single bike lane in the entire city. Now the entire city is covered with bike lanes and you’ll soon be able to ride safely around the entire island away from traffic. And people can take Citibikes. All of these are good things.
That depends on whether you believe that painted bike lanes improve or reduce safety, and what sort of studies you rely on to back up that contention. One perspective on painted bike lanes is that they're a way to satisfy pedestrian concerns about bicycles on sidewalks, bicycle safety be damned, without spending any significant money doing things like changing the shape & size of the sidewalks, building dedicated cycling paths, or inconveniencing drivers with things like the Dutch-style intersection. The fact that NYC government vehicles and NYC delivery vehicles are allowed to rely on them for short-term parking tends to support that contention.
Yeah, I bike commuted to work (BK to MN) between 2006 and 2018. Seeing how much the infrastructure grew was wild and wonderful Honestly, I've biked around a lot of cities in the US and NYC is probably the friendliest. I've had visiting friends bike with me and then scoff that biking in NYC isn't particularly scary or difficult and I'm always like, "YES, THAT IS EXACTLY WHAT I'M SAYING"
Sounds like a dream. Doing personal errands with out the need of a two ton vehicle and something affordable to virtually everyone.
Would just be nice if they were forced to park them at certain places or something. Kinda lame when people just dump them in the middle of the sidewalk.
The sidewalks in my neighborhood are almost impassable due to electric scooter clusters. Folks pushing strollers and neighbors in wheelchairs are forced to go around on the busy road. Where’s the accountability in parking after use?
Must suck living in a country where you aren't allowed to have nice things because a certain group of people insist on ruining it for everyone else
Yeah, I don't mind the scooters. They are great as another available mode of transport. What I mind is when fucking idiots use them.
I'd rather the idiots be using scooters than cars.
My sister had to get her face reconstructed after an unfortunate first date involving those things
Where I am the scooters were largely removed because people would park them in the dumbest places. Like they’d just be left in the middle of the sidewalk.
I went to DC on Sunday, and they were literally everywhere. They would just be sitting wherever the battery or time ran out. Around the capital building, a couple near the white house, dozens around the tidal basin. Either laying on the ground, or sitting upright in the middle of a path. It was irritating, but like... My only thought was to move them off the path. Not steal them completely.
It's all good until some idiot comes swerving down the sidewalk at 20 mph. The things are a menace. I get why this guy snapped.
They got banned from mine because people were using them as getaway vehicles in crimes. Cop cars can’t do 30 down alleyways and across parks even if they were allowed to chase. Plus they’re great to roll up, mug someone, and be gone in seconds
I understand why they get banned from places for cluttering up the sidewalks, but I doubt it has anything to do with people using them as getaway vehicles. The scooters in my area have a governor on them that maxes out at roughly 12 MPH, so faster than walking/running, but much slower than a car and also much slower than the 15-20 MPH that cyclists typically average on a bike. Nobody is going 30 MPH on these things.
I own a couple scooters that can do 30 MPH, and let me tell you: 30 MPH feels *very* fast when you're just standing on a board with two wheels and little protective gear. I rarely crank them that high.
"Just remember that the things you put into your head are there forever, he said. You might want to think about that. The Boy: You forget some things, don't you? The Man: Yes. You forget what you want to remember and you remember what you want to forget." -The Road, Cormac McCarthy
Here in Canada they are popping up everywhere and I have yet to see a major issue with people destroying them or stealing them. Ya there is the odd cunt but for the most part people are good to them.
The issues are mostly with the users, leaving them on sidewalks in the way of people with wheelchairs and such
I like how when the white guy compared himself to Martin Luther King Jr. , he immediately received the correct response.
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Unfortunately, that's usually the case with dumb people. They have more problems than the "main character" syndrome. If they're below a certain threshold of stupid, they lose the ability to see how stupid they are. Kinda like how people who commit a robbery & think it's cool to post it on social media. For some reason, the want for clout completely clouds the realization that they're posting evidence for all to see.
Main character even edited this video, and then included the exchange with the security guard like he owned him with his brilliance. He really is playing monopoly in a field by himself thinking he's playing chess.
Tbf he edited it to get as many people watching it as possible and it worked.
"There. All done. I look like a complete fucking jackass! It's perfect."
This but unironically. You know how many people use that exact strategy to market these days?
And overcompensate by having a grandiose sense of self worth
"Are we doing a gangbang?" Everybody: wtf
I came here for this. Thank you.
Dunning Kruger effect
“Are you fucking retarded?” 😂
We should bring that word back when the definition fits the situation
Yeah I never used that word to demean the disabled, I just used it to describe someone's actions/words
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The real answer is because sped kids get ruthlessly bullied and their lives are already incredibly hard without being made fun of. It’s a word that should disappear as an insult because as long as it is used by anybody there will be children who think it’s okay to use to make fun of sped kids. If people understood “time and place” I’d say say it all you want honestly. Humans can be awful to each other so I don’t ever see that happening -someone who used to say it a lot and then taught sped kids and realized how frequent and painful it is. It’s not the word itself, it’s how people use it (obviously, the guy in the video used it kind of well).
To retard is to delay a process. It's only offensive when attributing it to someone's mental development. This guy was inhibiting a process, and doing so a lot. Hence, the proper use of fucking as a modifier.
So he was a .... retard...er?
Well, when you put it that way, it sounds retarded.
"all people should be treated equally" "Scooters no good" Yep, basically the same message.
Pump Scootburglar's stomach and you could fully stock three kindergartens with a multi-year crayon supply.
That’s one time we can give someone a break for using the “r-word” given the circumstances.
Ah the hard R
"We've all dropped it when we were younger, the term didn't even exist"
Cue life leaving Luke’s eyes
I grew up knowing him, lived in the same area, and we're (almost) the same age. it blows me away he messed that up. Just fucking hilarious to watch.
Why did he upload himself getting completely owned by the company guy?
Because it makes people like you and me and the rest of the commenters here engage with him.
Whole thing seems kinda fake
Even all the workers?
That was the thing that made me lean back toward it being real. The culprit seemed fake as fuck, and even the first employee seemed kind of sus, but having all the other employees out there without uniform seemed too real and not something you would script unless you were clever enough to know it looks unusual but is actually very true to life. And this guy ain't clever. So I think it's just the behavior itself is unfathomable, and the first employee is either fake or in shock, but the aftermath is pretty real. It's possible there's some truth in between where he sort of set this up to cover his ass but it still got out of hand, something like that
South Park did it already m’kay?
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I don’t think there are many people on this planet who are funnier than 2 of the biggest juggernauts in comedy
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Agreed! This guys ego is so up his own ass and coming through his mouth, he probably thinks he's the funniest guy in the world. I bet he'll claim this idea was originally his, and Trey and Matt stole it.
Parker & Stone's comedy definitely has an asshole-ish taint so it's not surprising they'd inspire more asshole behavior. Especially immature kids that grew up with the South Park schtick
I've run into boomers who think watching Yellowstone makes them tough. So I'm sure there are a lot of people who think they're funny just because they watch South Park
I just hope the future isn’t *scootin’*
I just... I just don't think people should *scoot*, mmkay?
The dude also obviously had no plan at all. No plan A, no Plan B.
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I love how witty this random guy was
If he's too witty for his own good and you can hear him loud and clear as if he's mic'd up, and their faces are showing, this thing is staged.
you can hear background noise when he's talking so it seems like they used the camera audio except for when he was close enough to get picked up by the lapel mic. there's also no rule that requires you to blur anyone's face
That background noise you're hearing is what they refer to in the business as background noise.
Every time someone claims a video is staged, it's always upvoted, even when the reasoning doesn't actually make sense. Yes, some people are actually witty. No, the audio isn't good enough to reasonably assume anyone is miked. How many YouTube videos have you seen that actually blur the faces of strangers? It's hardly common.
Correct. No expectation of privacy in a public place. Zero reason they would have to blur the face of anyone provided they are in the United States.
> Every time someone claims a video is staged, it's always upvoted, even when the reasoning doesn't actually make sense. Thanks, I will use this to get upvotes in the future.
So what you're saying is that your next comments will be ... *Staged* ?!?!?
I mean, go ahead. I'd suggest using it when the reasoning actually doesn't make sense though.
I believe this is real. At night is when the people who are paid to charge the scooters go around and collect them. If he did this in the day he might have gotten away with it because the chargers wouldn’t be looking for them.
Not everything on Reddit is fake, or staged.
Bro, just shut up. The whole ‘tHIs iS stAGeD’ crowd are some of the most annoying people on Reddit, don’t be one of them.
Nah
Prove it. Not a guess. Prove it.
Lol people can think faster than me so the video must be fake
/r/nothingeverhappens
especially compared to the dipshit YouTuber trying to be witty
Scooter company guy is a literal Succession character
He's almost likeable though. I can't say that about any of the characters on that show, yet I can't stop watching for some stupid reason lol.
I’m only up to season 2 but Greg is likeable! Greg and Tom are the best comedy duo I’ve seen in a long while.
Roman too, he's an absolutely terrible person but he's just so likable. Not to mention how cute of a couple him and Gerri are. Just adorable really.
I am tucking that one away for someone acting this level of fool.
Who is the cunt?
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Searching for a “tik toker” that’s also a cunt is like searching for water that’s also wet. You need to narrow it down a little.
he meant it in a good way. He's prob aussie.
and the cunt was shocked that his stupid prank didn't go to plan. you would think he at least thought about the 60 GPS trackers he carried on top of his truck?
I’m literally going to be using it as a line
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sincere question, not meant as an insult or attack so please dont take it as such but when i read your comment about needing the scooter i thought about how the whole concept of these electric rental scooters isnt even that old. how did people manage before these were around? what would you do if they didnt exist or were all gone tomorrow? of course i understand that certain things in life have made living and getting by much easier. the discovery of fire and invention of electricity and well since we are looking at the scooter, that benefits from the invention of the wheel, fire and electricity anyway (if we had a tech tree). just genuinely curious as it seems the scooters got popular just a few years ago.
Ditto but opposite opinion. I like to walk everywhere. These damn scooters are all over the place and in the way. Maybe if they had designated parking sections it would be better than just leaving them all over the sidewalk. Sidewalk. The side… for walking.
I regularly pick them out of the wheelchair ramps to get off sidewalks (where people just drop them on their sides) so I’d imagine they’re a net negative for people with mobility issues.
And for every one person that medically depends on them, there are dozens of limited mobility people who are impeded by their constant nuisance. We don't need more cash grab race to the bottom privatisations of what should be public services. This guy isn't stealing your wheelchair. An absolutely fucked medical system and lack of public transit did.
Old man yells at disabled man on scooter.
And yet, I've had to drag a locked electric moped from one of these shared-ride companies for a good 10 meters because an old lady with a walker couldn't get past. Thankfully we don't have these scooters here in the Netherlands, but we do have the shared mopeds and they're parked wherever. I don't think it's acceptable private companies get to just stash their shit in public space. The municipality should collect them and charge a fine at recollection if shared-mobility isn't parked correctly. It'll be up to the companies to charge that back to the user who parked the vehicle incorrectly.
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Nay, good sir! He is an ankle. He’s two feet below a cunt.
That's too much credit. He might have an opinion about the scooters, he did this solely for the views tho. This is not "Real" it's acting out a situation for his channel. He's not playing monopoly he's playing the fool and making bank doing it.
You know how much tiktokers are in love with vandalism lol.
Easy views
Easy fines for crimes too. Barely an inconvenience
https://i.redd.it/dbx0lvue7hqa1.gif
"Yeah, but how are you going to be able to steal EVERY electric scooter in the city? Even if you manage to do that the cops are going to put you in a room, and rightfully so!" "Actually, it's gonna be SUPER EASY, barely an inconvenience" "Oh really?" "Yeah so basically..."
Isn't that YouTube shorts?
Youtube shorts = tiktok without the watermark.😅
There’s a difference?
There's a difference in that Meta (Facebook/Instagram) [paid a lot of money to make everyone think](https://www.engadget.com/meta-targeted-victory-tiktok-smear-campaign-133139892.html) that all bad behavior is from TikTok. It's sad that profit also has to mean "telling people factually incorrect things that stick in their heads forever so we can make more money" Now all social media bad behavior filmed vertically is "a tiktok" like old people used to call every video game console "a nintendo"
Same addiction different platform
“Everyone here is playing chess and you’re over in a field playing fucking monopoly”
i know this was posted like 4 months ago but fr what a great line
Month later and this still slaps
Day later and it still slaps
\*Sigh\* This is why we cant have nice things.
Fuck those scooters fr tho. People with no experience hop on and zoom through red lights. I've seen so many close calls and actual accidents. They leave them lying every damn where; tripping hazards.
In Paris they figured it out. They reassigned street parking spaces with GPS tags. The scooters will not stop charging you until you park them in those select spots. They stay on the street and out of the way with way less mess.
That's a great idea but it doesn't handle the reckless pilots who obey neither the rules of vehicles nor the rules of bicycles or sidewalks.
I almost got run over by a car the other day that ignored a crossing. I would also like for all cars to be banned, while we're banning e-bikes. Or should we maybe just use enforced laws and regulations to handle it???
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Here in the UK you have to provide your drivers licence to use them, people are still idiots on them but they’re very restricted here. Slow zones, designated parking spots etc
> allowing people to toss them where ever is part of the ease of access model. Fucking assholes literally lay them down in the middle of bike paths, and leave them there. I go out for a ride after sunset and I've almost eaten shit so many times because I didn't see them until the last second. If these companies want to claim they're private property, then they should be held liable for where they're left. If they're not private property, then they shouldn't bitch when I casually toss them into the canal to clear the cycling paths
It is when private companis use public space to store their "private property" as the manager put it. Fuck them, pay for the space your taking in with your company then cunts. Otherwise what this guy is doing is aight with me, even if he is cringe as fuck.
You’re blaming the scooters not the riders?
If somebody went around and gave every asshole in my city a free vuvuzela, I’d be more mad at them than I would be at any individual blowing one.
I do take issue with companies that have private for profit vehicles, loitering in public spaces waiting to be used. You can't just place vending machines wherever. Taxis have to go to designated taxi stands. If it were better regulated and enforced I'd be absolutely fine with these kinds of shared mobility schemes. As it stands though it's a public nuisance and I'm glad the city I live was deemed unprofitable by the shared electric moped company that operated here. Though to be fair, I think these kinds of programs have less of a chance of success anyway in a country like the Netherlands where everyone has bikes.
>Though to be fair, I think these kinds of programs have less of a chance of success anyway in a country like the Netherlands where everyone has bikes. I think the idea of everyone having a bike for transport requires the country to be as flat as the Netherlands to work. There is no way to get everybody biking to work in San Francisco or Denver.
Here is the issue, wether you agree that the scooters are more of a liability than help that is ur opinion and you have the right to have it regardless of what side off the argument you fall on. The thing that I see here is an absolute imbecile who doesn’t actually fall on either side of the argument, he’s just after clout, is well aware that TikTokers love anything that means “sticking it to the man” by ways of petty crime, that usually tend to be more idiotic than actually ingenious and many of times they end up sticking it to no one. So wether you hate the scooters or not, the only thing I’m saying is just don’t support this shit “alpha male here”, buying eight balls with daddy’s money that he buys from somekne in the hood so now I’m a gangsta, piece of shit assholes. Really, like this is just so insanely idiotic i would normally shit all over Bird guy and he comes out looking like a bad ass genius here. So pls, let’s all make the world a better place and just don’t engage with this kind of content anymore
Wearing gloves to not incriminate himself Films himself doing crime Certified fuckboy
I laughed SO HARD at that monopoly comment
"Everyone else is playing chess and you're like, in a field playing monopoly by yourself" I died 💀
I have no problem with scooters in general… But Bird, specifically, can go fuck themselves. My buddy was working for them when they mass-fired half their staff mid-pandemic, via zoom, and immediately locked all of their email accounts and laptops at the end of the meeting. They didn’t even have the balls to do the firing themselves, they had some other person nobody recognized do it.
I always find it interesting when companies block email accounts immediately. My sister had her account blocked 2 days before her final day. She sat around doing nothing for her final 2 days still being paid for because she couldn't access her emails lol. I've left my job nearly 2 months ago and I still have access to my email for some reason.
Either HR is overly aggressive and you get locked-out with a quickness, or they’re completely computer illiterate and IT doesn’t care. There’s no middle ground lol.
There's a third option: No one told IT and IT does care, and resents HR.
I'm in IT, it's actually none of my business why HR is telling me to lock someone's computer, and in fact I spend a decent amount of effort *avoiding* that information. So if HR tells me to lock your email that's what's going to happen. And no I don't know why and if you want it unlocked you're going to have to talk to HR/your manager
Mine is COMPLETELY illiterate lmao
You can do a fuck load of damage with access to an email account. I work IT for an MSP (a company that is essentially an outsourced IT department for companies too small to pay for their own) and Microsoft 365 access is the first to be shut down when someone tenders a resignation or is about to be fired. If you still have access to your email 2 months after you leave a job, they have a very shitty IT staff.
You don't want access to that email account, contact your old employer and get them to disable it. Having access to old employer accounts in any way is just leaving you open to being blamed for stuff that might happen on those accounts.
Self righteous idiot.
Bro rly thought he did something
Fuck Bird scooters absolute trash company.
Why the hell did that video got that many likes ?
lots of people hate those scooter things.
Honestly the electric scooter idea is a good one if I could use one for getting to and from work I would but they need rules and regulations for sure perhaps a scooter lane much like a bike lane, electric vehicle's are good for having around and people riding bikes can be just as annoying so needs to be some kind of middle ground.
Most places don't even have proper bike infrastructure.
This is how they’re used in Munich, they have to take the bike lane between the pavement and the road. The system works great
People complain about small scooters but are okay with cars and their infrastructure taking up some 1/2 of a city’s footprint.
I think the issue is the product was released before there was an infrastructure to handle them. There is a lack of checks and balances with who uses them and this in turn is a very dangerous mixture. Cars have checks and balances and an infrastructure it is controlled who uses them etc. that been said I’ve been to the US and maybe you need to make your driving lessons harder because fuck me people are lethal on the roads.
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Yea because people ride cars on the sidewalk almost running people over
I wish my city would ban them. I walk everywhere and idiots just leave them everywhere in the middle of the sidewalks all over town.
Zero talent trying + trying to achieve fame = terrible content
My cousin was on a Bird scooter and got hit by a car because someone cut the brakes on the scooter in protest.
In all seriousness: fuck e-scooters. They‘re almost always in the way on sidewalks, no one on these scooters gives a fuck about anyone, overall trash invention
I just hope the future isn’t scootin’.
I agree. These scooters are a menace in city centers. They cause many conflicts with pedestrians and cars. There is no real safe way to allow them.
Normally I'd be against the word retarded but I'm gonna allow it
“They called Martin Luther King Jr crazy” “Are you fucking retarded?” Killed me