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Re:EFF Responds to Bird's Legal Threats to Boing Boing by jalgos_eminator on Friday January 11, 2019 @06:04PM (#18888056)
If its not yours, you can't take possession of it. Just because it is currently resting on a sidewalk doesn't mean that it is any less the property of someone. Besides, most cities have a formal process to determine if a vehicle really is abandoned.

My neighbor has a sign on the dash of his van explaining that it is in working condition, is able to be moved, and is definitely not abandoned. Obviously he got complaints from other neighbors in the past about it.

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Re:EFF Responds to Bird's Legal Threats to Boing Boing by gamblor956 on Friday January 11, 2019 @06:19PM (#18888160)
Cars are very different from scooters; not in the least because cars are individually identified and licensed.
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Re:EFF Responds to Bird's Legal Threats to Boing Boing by Dylan16807 on Friday January 11, 2019 @06:30PM (#18888231)
What nonsense is this? A license plate affects ownership law? The scooters can be individually identified too.
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Re:EFF Responds to Bird's Legal Threats to Boing Boing by gamblor956 on Friday January 11, 2019 @07:49PM (#18888680)
The point was that leaving a vehicle in a parking space is not an indicator of abandonment because ownership of a vehicle is based on registration, not physical possession. The same is not true of scooters, and that makes all the difference.
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Re:EFF Responds to Bird's Legal Threats to Boing Boing by Dylan16807 on Friday January 11, 2019 @08:04PM (#18888750)
Registration is for tracking ownership, paperwork that is filed up to a month after ownership changes. It doesn't create ownership.
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