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#1 2018-03-25 13:40:54

MichaelBluejay
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Amazing pictures of thousands of abandoned bicycles

This is seriously crazy!  Hard to believe this isn't Photoshopped or an April Fool's Joke.  (Or is it?)

https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2018/ … es/556268/

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#2 2018-04-04 14:08:07

daveintex13
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Re: Amazing pictures of thousands of abandoned bicycles

Slate's tongue-in-cheek response to the new "crisis" of dockless bikes littering cities (spoiler: photos are of motor vehicle parking lots and dumps):

https://slate.com/business/2018/04/asto … ities.html

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#3 2018-04-04 17:25:55

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Re: Amazing pictures of thousands of abandoned bicycles

God bless Slate.

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