I was reading an article yesterday about Cleveland throwing them out, and a university in the city rounding them up and making Bird come pick them up.
Maybe I'm going crazy, but I seem to recall an article over the weekend where people in some bigger city were rounding them up and tossing them into a body of water.
Where some people see a public nuisance, I see a free source of abandoned lithium ion batteries for the picking.
Publish a video on YouTube showing how to gut those scooters and make whole-house battery packs, and the Bird problem will be over before you know it.....