Numlock News: July 25, 2019 • Weed Edibles, Scooters, Bridge
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By Walt Hickey Dockless Bird, Lime, and the other dockless scooter companies have unleashed an entire cavalry of untrained novice scooter riders on city sidewalks and bike lanes, successfully disrupting the transportation ecosystems of many municipalities. But when it comes to disruption, there are much older, far more powerful forces at play, businesses that can disrupt a thousand lives in the time it took a San Franciscan to put a GPS tracker on a scooter. I’m speaking, of course, of towing companies, one of which is mounting a fairly profitable campaign impounding scooters that were ditched on various people’s property in or around San Diego. After getting a call from a business owner and impounding the device, ScootScoop charges a fairly reasonable
Numlock News: July 25, 2019 • Weed Edibles, Scooters, Bridge
Numlock News: July 25, 2019 • Weed Edibles…
Numlock News: July 25, 2019 • Weed Edibles, Scooters, Bridge
By Walt Hickey Dockless Bird, Lime, and the other dockless scooter companies have unleashed an entire cavalry of untrained novice scooter riders on city sidewalks and bike lanes, successfully disrupting the transportation ecosystems of many municipalities. But when it comes to disruption, there are much older, far more powerful forces at play, businesses that can disrupt a thousand lives in the time it took a San Franciscan to put a GPS tracker on a scooter. I’m speaking, of course, of towing companies, one of which is mounting a fairly profitable campaign impounding scooters that were ditched on various people’s property in or around San Diego. After getting a call from a business owner and impounding the device, ScootScoop charges a fairly reasonable