Originally Posted by
jmur5074
We have to pick up abandoned BIKES.
All of our cars have scratches all over the trunks and rear fenders from picking up bikes. I'd like to know who even thinks to call the cops when someone drops a bike in their yard. I'd just roll it up to my dumpster. Second of all, typically the bikes are on PRIVATE PROPERTY. Or at least on the person's boulevard or sidewalk, which is public but maintained by the homeowner.
I've said several times if abandoned bikes are such a problem (our dayshifters normally pick up 2,3 bikes in a week) why not have the STREET department (who maintains the sidewalks and streets obviously) roll around once a week in a truck and pick up all the bikes that have been called in? Or, tell the call takers to pound sand and get rid of their new bike if they don't want it.