Those rental scooters in my city are always parked so they obstruct as much of the sidewalk as possible, it’s so infuriating.
I don’t get why people do this and I get the hate for the rental escooters and ebikes (even though I think most people kick them just for “fun”). I usually take my time and put them out of the way. People look weird at me sometimes but I feel like doing something good. It’s like that’s why we can’t have nice things. They’ve banned those in São Paulo, Brazil because of that, didn’t take I think 2 months even.
Why dont just kick the cycles ?
I’d move them annoyingly instead. Not violently. E.g.:
- Carry one across the street, lay it down.
- Place the other upside down.
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I dunno: laws, other consequences?
Imagine being a voice of reason on the internet
Someone get this persons lizard brain turned back on PRONTO
Mostly pisses me off because it blocks disabled people. I wouldn’t blame them for knocking it down.
Yes, you can walk around it but what about someone in a wheelchair?
I don’t think OP needed to give a damn while posting this, plus it was pointed out already.
Just kick it over, gets the point across
you may not realize…that belongs to the main character
I know this was in the Netherlands before I even saw the Dutch licenseplate lol. This is common practise, very annoying tho.
Says the one sitting on his bike on the sidewalk while holding a phone?
It’s not like the person taking this photo left their bike for a while.
I’ve noticed people with motorcycles doing this a lot more.
In the US, this would be a F250 extended King Cab blocking your path while idling and spewing diesel exhaust.
I guess our “mildly” infuriating things are different.
It’s not legal to ride your bike on the sidewalk in the US, no?
It’s a local thing. My town doesn’t let you ride on the main street sidewalk, but you can everywhere else. There are signs posted at the end of the street that you would never notice.
That being said, ride in the road. Assert some dominance.
Unless the cars on the road are going to fast for comfort or are too agressive, then do whatever you can to not feel like you are going to die at any moment.
That’s how you get your like kicked off to the side.
I might be too american, but I’m more concerned about leaving a bike outside unlocked without a fear to have it stolen. How does that work?
Here it comes paired with a surveillance state that will catch you stealing a bicycle and have the cops waiting for you at your home before you can even reach it.
Nah. In Copenhagen we lock them like this, too, but you’d never get the police to check video to maybe identify the theif. Rape or violence, sure, but not bike theft.
I’m not in Copenhagen, however.
Sorry, no, of course not. It wasn’t my impression it was like that in NL.
Those are all locked. This is in from the Netherlands. The most bicycle happy and bicycle friendly country in the world. So much so thar they have bicycle parking problems.
I am an american but i think it works like this:
- streets are bike friendly
- more reasonable to just bike everywhere so everyone does
- city may provide free bikes to use
- more demand for bikes, more competition, less expensive bikes
- less bike theft in general as a result
- these aren’t $4k+ bespoke bikes
- something something socialized healthcare something something better labor laws something something higher taxes but a better quality of life. Why steal? Be happy.
We don’t have these things here. Except for expensive bikes, that’s all we have. That’s why I got these boltcutters…
Haha no, bikes get stolen all the time and the cheap ones are easiest to sell. These bikes are in fact locked
We call them junkie bikes because you buy them from your local junkie for 10/20€ and don’t ask where it’s from.
Except for expensive bikes, that’s all we have. That’s why I got these boltcutters…
Well of course, how else do people get expensive bikes?
In the Netherlands they get stolen all the time as well. Locked or not. We have bike thieves that just load the whole bike including lock into a van and drive off with it.
Either that, or if attached to a pole/bike rack with a chain or bar lock, they’ll just pull out the old angle grinder and go to work.
Happens everywhere, happens in broad daylight, happens when there’s people around, and usually doesn’t raise a lot of suspicion because “might be someone who’s lost their keys”.
Since there’s 4 bicycles for every person living in the Netherlands, the key strategy is just making sure your bicycle is a little less fancy than the one locked up next to yours. Thieves tend to go for the ones they can resell for the most amount of money. In other words: Hide in the numbers.
Key strategy, hah. I do that too, parking my bike next to fancier one.
Leuke naam, ik krijg er honger van.
They are actually locked. In the Netherlands bikes usually have ring locks attached to the frame that lock just the rear wheel. It’s way more convenient, you can quickly lock your bike and pop into a store. It’s of course less safe, so especially in larger cities and at train stations people do lock their bike to something.
Example of lock ring lock: https://www.google.com/search?q=axa+ring+lock&biw=412&bih=712&dpr=2.63
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Serious Costco sample area vibes.
I’m in the US and when I read the title I assumed it’d be a car parked in an insane way. I wish we had the opportunity to be mad at bikes haha. The closest is people dumping scooters wherever or they try to park them politely but then they fall over
I assume people putting themselves, or their personal shit in everyone’s way.
Yes Karen, you and your five friends, walking shoulder to shoulder, on the only place for people to walk, at a slow meander, DOES obstruct everyone else. And yes, I have somewhere to be, but even if I didn’t, get the fuck out of the goddamn way.
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Hmmm
Wait, NPCs have a power to go through the props. It’s something I learned from Half-Life 2.
