Why do so many bikes end up underwater?
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Not the first, won't be the last.
- you want to go somewhere and you don't have your bike. You borrow one, but when you get near the destination and you don't want to risk a theft charge, you dump it in the canal, the water is removing fingerprints and DNA
- you have an old bike that does not work anymore. It is cheaper to throw it in the canal
- you find a bicycle poorly parked (or dumped) on a sidewalk or some place that is inconvenient, you throw it out of the way ... in the canal
There may be other reasons in other places, but these are in that part of the world where they live.
I don't support any such behavior and the guys that I know don't do it, just reporting it.
Because the human activity Markov chain terminates with death, or in the case of bikes with ending up at the bottom of a river out of the way of accessibility.
the river doesn't ask questions. doesn't judge you. doesn't rear it's ugly head of spatial conformity when your bike doesn't fit.
it merely politely swallows whatever you put into it, wherever you are, leaving you free to go about your day
vs the municipal trash can, where you'll be fined if it doesn't fit, and have to lug it in
way more fun to toss and dump on one last wild ride of your bike
bikes don't float hth
This was something that happened more than five days ago, so nothing came up when I did a Google search.
I've lived places where the city didn't want to, or was legally unable, to increase taxes to fund enhanced trash collection.
I've lived in places where the city spends tons of money on trash collection, and everyone got new wheelie bins every year, and trash pick-up three days a week.
When I lived in the desert, trash collection was frequent, and cheap as chips because the city didn't want to give people any reason to dump their trash in the desert.
River, you are such a sink.
It's a bit like the drunk, wall and gutter, they will bounce off the wall everytime they hit it, but once they are in the gutter they are stuck there.
A commercial dumpster would hold it, but most places around here keep those locked up (either by locking the cover or keeping them behind a locked gate). Probably because they got tired of people dumping personal trash (like bicycles) in them.
I've actually purchased a bike from a shop that made bikes from parts. It was a horror, but it shows that there is a life cycle that doesn't end in a river :)
Bikes at your large public trash can be easily recycled or discarded at municipal waste facility.
Bikes lost to rivers lakes and oceans accumulate into graveyards.
Thus the “why so many”
We used to tie our bikes to the end of the peer and do tricks then pull them up by the string. It's pretty fun.
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We found a car2go in the river once, apparently.
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.
Theft.
Where would you decide to go pee?