Some bad apples have been ruining the whole bike-sharing experience for everyone else by chaining the bikes up so others can’t freely use them (that’s not how it works, guys) — but this one takes the cake.
The sheer audacity of it all is so blatantly selfish that we can’t help but slow clap for this prick. This one individual likes bike-sharing so much, that he/she took one home, removed its lock and splashed a new coat of paint on it.
No, really.
Win liao! Resident finds ofo bike at Toa Payoh Park, painted white https://t.co/ee5HTHMPN6 pic.twitter.com/ULkaBTmFxJ
— Stomp Singapore (@stompsingapore) April 13, 2017
A bicycle by bike-sharing platform ofo was spotted chained up to a rack in Toa Payoh by a STOMP contributor, with the ‘owner’ taking the effort to paint the whole thing white. Its lock — installed to prevent non-paying customers to freely ride it — was conveniently gone, too. And the person *could* have gotten away with it if he/she had bothered to change its seat to something that didn’t sport the ofo logo.
According to the STOMP contributor, photos of the stolen bike have been sent to ofo, but the company hasn’t issued a response.
Tech-driven bike-sharing systems may be one of the best concepts to arrive in Singapore in a while, but the fact that these start-ups are beginning to realize our cheapness and tendency to hoard free things isn’t helping matters.
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