Re-purposed Bird Scooters

[Dead Duck]

https://boingboing.net/2018/06/25/gentleman-has-a-few-too-many-s.html

 

[Dead Duck]

Meet Tech?s New Bounty Hunters: Electric Scooter Chargers | Fortune

 

[Dead Duck]

Sorry I was bored!

 

[Wolfhound]

 

[IndianaSoloMcfly]

Someone please show me a link to some sort of mount so i can attach my AR to the handlebars. Preferably a swivel so i can engage while riding.
bloomington would loovveeee it

 

[Wolfhound]

 

[bwframe]

I know you're being serious and bringing up some good points, BW. When I read this I pictured somebody firing both barrels of a Fudd gun and flipping over backwards.

After I stopped laughing I read your next sentence about carrying spare scooters. I was thinking exactly the same thing.

 

[KellyinAvon]

Hey, it's got a light! You can reload then use the light to find the scooter after the back flip.

 

[gregkl]

This scooter business model is going to implode and go away before the zombie apocalypse. They are a blight on the cities, the city controllers don't know how to manage them, the scooter companies themselves are already working on "selling" rights to private individuals (which I'm guessing is just a way to get out from under the liability) and insurance companies are going to do something to deal with the multiple daily emergency room visits due to these.

Last mile solution they call it; bikes are still better, though the rider does have to put forth some effort, lol.

There will be so many regulations and lawsuits concerning these that there wont' be enough margin to sustain these. They will be gone.

That's my prediction. And remember, I predicted that 9 MM 1911's would be a thing several years ago. Right CM?

 

[churchmouse]

This scooter business model is going to implode and go away before the zombie apocalypse. They are a blight on the cities, the city controllers don't know how to manage them, the scooter companies themselves are already working on "selling" rights to private individuals (which I'm guessing is just a way to get out from under the liability) and insurance companies are going to do something to deal with the multiple daily emergency room visits due to these.

Last mile solution they call it; bikes are still better, though the rider does have to put forth some effort, lol.

There will be so many regulations and lawsuits concerning these that there wont' be enough margin to sustain these. They will be gone.

That's my prediction. And remember, I predicted that 9 MM 1911's would be a thing several years ago. Right CM?

 

[bwframe]

After watching a couple of the vids linked above, I revert back. Yeah, there'll be none of these left worth getting. Between street punks with nothing to do but figure how to hack these things and the charger guys, they will be gone or trashed.

Besides that, the last thing you want in SHTF is your face stuck in your phone, trying to figure this stuff out.

 

[rhino]

Watch the news for a story about chezuki and rhino getting caught wearing full plate armor and attempting jousting battles astride these crappy scooters.

 

[KellyinAvon]

Watch the news for a story about chezuki and rhino getting caught wearing full plate armor and attempting jousting battles astride these crappy scooters.

That would be most awesome! An epic INGO event that would bring out INGOers by the dozen. Only question, where do we go eat afterwards?

 

[rhino]

That would be most awesome! An epic INGO event that would bring out INGOers by the dozen. Only question, where do we go eat afterwards?

Union Jack, of course.

 

[churchmouse]

Union Jack, of course.

 

[AngryRooster]

Watch the news for a story about chezuki and rhino getting caught wearing full plate armor and attempting jousting battles astride these crappy scooters.

I think I found it. Is this the right news story?

[video=youtube;DynYRO0FzOQ]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DynYRO0FzOQ[/video]

 

[actaeon277]

Watch the news for a story about chezuki and rhino getting caught wearing full plate armor and attempting jousting battles astride these crappy scooters.

flores para los muertos

[video=youtube;wQNI7q6ABnc]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQNI7q6ABnc[/video]

 

[bwframe]

E-scooters captivated IU students. But more than 75 have been hurt so far.

 

[actaeon277]

E-scooters captivated IU students. But more than 75 have been hurt so far.

In the ambulance, Powers remembered knocking some teeth out when she was 8. She asked the EMT if new ones would grow back.
“No, honey,” the EMT said.
Powers cried harder.


A college student that didn't know you only get baby and adult teeth....
Another education success story.

 

[Leadeye]

Saw on the local news tonight that the CDC wants to study scooters for new ways to improve safety, inventing problems to get tax paid funding from the millions who will never use one.

Always follow the money