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Does this means if I bring 1 or 2 scooters to my house, Ill be able to use them for my own usage?

No. In the event of a bankruptcy, the inventory should be sold to the highest bidder and used to reimburse the creditors of the company (probably the IRS/investors/suppliers).

Bringing scooters to your house would still be theft.

...whelp, into the water it goes, then.

JOKING [I try not to litter] — my US city banned this trash service years ago.

In its place, city-serviced bikes are available to rent (and must be returned to their "stations" after use).

I think you’d have to figure out a way to “jailbreak” it, if you did. Most (if not all) are locked down via software, and can’t just be used without that aspect.

The very early 365 models they dropped off in Santa Monica are easy to jailbreak. A couple years ago you could buy an already jailbroken one off of Craigslist in LA for around $100-200.

Obviously illegal although unlikely to get you in trouble.

https://scooterhacking.org/

I collected broken abandoned ones in my neighborhood in Baltimore. They were there for weeks maybe even months, lying on the ground. I took it home, removed the bird brain, bought a new ninebot ESC, repinned a couple of jst connectors, got a replacement battery, and a folding steering bar a latch from a guy in Russia.

Another company's E-Trash is another mans transportation when their car is broken.

In Europe it was customary to throw them into the local river I believe

Moving the litter from the streets to the river where they can do more damage to the environment as they are degraded by water. Makes sense.

The people that throw them in the river are not the environmentalist kind but pretty trashy themselves. The kind that hang around street corners in groups making you feel unsafe. We call them 'hangjongeren' in Dutch (meaning youths hanging around).

Ps I hate these scooter companies but throwing them in the rivers is terrible for the environment.

Simultaneously: out of sight, out of mind.

We're strange creatures.

It happened in Baltimore's Inner Harbor. This trend may have been influenced by social media or simply by human nature.

I’ve wondered how they deal with theft. But if you take a scooter and put it in a faraday cage now, in a year or two, will they will track them when you take it out?

> The ultimate goal is to sell Bird’s assets, with a so-called “stalking horse” agreement kicking off a bidding process designed to get as much value out of Bird as possible, with its lenders setting a baseline bid before opening things up to external suitors over the next four months.

They might end up in the hands of someone that wants them. There are many different scooter companies, so it’s likely someone will pick ups the assets.

I'd assume their connectivity provider would've terminated their contract.

Although bankruptcy can also mean restructuring...

> In a press release today, Bird confirmed that it had entered into a “financial restructuring process aimed at strengthening its balance sheet,” with the company continuing to operate as normal in pursuit of “long-term, sustainable growth.”

Was thinking the same thing, totally gona start bringing them into the hood! Some bike company bikes became fair game after they went bust in Europe.

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