Just this week in Vantaa, Finland three 12-year-old girls piled onto one of those electric scooters you subscribe to with an app and proceeded to get run over by a car at a crossing, killing one of them
The app is supposed to have an age restriction but it's easy to bypass and you're not supposed to have more than one person riding on one, which people routinely ignore
I hate seeing kids and teens speeding around dangerously on those fucking things and then just leaving them laying around on high-traffic bike routes because they don't give a shit since they treat the scooters as completely disposable
Fucking awful bazinga-brained Silicon Valley-ass idea and business model. Actually, there are also bikes you can use with an app but curiously you don't see kids doing reckless shit with those, almost as if electric scooters were uniquely terrible 
They should either lower maximum speed those things go to 15 km/h or actually build road infrastructure for them, and ban users who leave them in the middle of the road, those things are a menace
I find the assumption that it's the last rider who huck these things onto the middle of the road to be very odd and I genuinely have never seen it happen IRL.
I'm from a place where people leave older/children's bikes unlocked on the side of the road all the time, and those don't seem to end up blocking the path. Maybe it's some scooter-hating prankster doing a psyop, but that seems to me the less likely scenario.
It's not really psyop shit it's just that there's so many people who have entirely irrational big mad at the things that they kick them over even when reasonably parked or alternatively they will remove them from "their" space into the "others" space which end you at a slow moving game of increasingly damaged e-scooter ping pong across the street.
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So is there enough space on the sidewalk or bicycle path to park them without being obstructing?
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Yeah, I've seen people who’ve never ridden them trash them, but never the riders.
A lot of cities have geofencing which restricts their speed along dedicated pedestrian corridors.
Idk about where you are but here they’re limited to 15mph. Which honestly isn’t fast enough to feel safe in the painted bicycle gutter with cars wizzing past at 50.