Re:EFF Responds to Bird's Legal Threats to Boing Boing
by Balgair on Friday January 11, 2019 @07:45PM
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Look, I'm not gonna say that it's super-duper legal to do what you are saying.
But (in SF at least) walking by Civic Center BART on Market Street, in broad daylight, you can gawk at least 10 homeless people per hour shooting up black tar heroin directly across from about five or more uniformed SFPD officers and then witness no arrests for such flagrant behavior [0]. Hell, if you've not seen a homeless person shit in the middle of the street on a Tuesday, you need to get out more.
Like, Bird/Lime/whatever may be sending out these notices to Cory Doctorow's blogosphere Zeppelins [1], but ain't no cop in SF (and likely in nearly every other city in the US) is EVER going to prosecute you for making a cheapo scooter into a vase for growing your weeds in. Like every single other person that isn't on the books at these scoot companies (and ~90% of the people in them anyway), all members of the legal system have better things to worry about.
But (in SF at least) walking by Civic Center BART on Market Street, in broad daylight, you can gawk at least 10 homeless people per hour shooting up black tar heroin directly across from about five or more uniformed SFPD officers and then witness no arrests for such flagrant behavior [0]. Hell, if you've not seen a homeless person shit in the middle of the street on a Tuesday, you need to get out more.
Like, Bird/Lime/whatever may be sending out these notices to Cory Doctorow's blogosphere Zeppelins [1], but ain't no cop in SF (and likely in nearly every other city in the US) is EVER going to prosecute you for making a cheapo scooter into a vase for growing your weeds in. Like every single other person that isn't on the books at these scoot companies (and ~90% of the people in them anyway), all members of the legal system have better things to worry about.
[0] https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/A-Bay-Area-New-Y...
[1] https://xkcd.com/345/