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Totally. They're making almost criminally high margins while they wait for the law to catch up. The story of several disruptive startups.

Not that I am a Bird defender, but people dump things all of the time.

Go to the store, buy a bike, get a flat eventually, "screw it im chucking it in the field over there"

Now definitely the rate of people dumping rented bird scooters is higher than everything else, but the real issue is the behavior of riders for not at least trying to be tidy in storing the scooter.

Sure, but that's a person deciding to litter instead of using the trash for a product they no longer want to use. In this case littering is part of the normal use of the product.

> and they are now upset with another business model that found /their gap is actually well-covered by existing towing law/

FTFY