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Why do people leave scooters on the flyover?

Yes, why do people scooters on the flyover? We have all seen it. Rental scooters are left on the flyovers. Actually they are left on many random places - on the footpath, in alleys, fallen on the side and I have often wondered, as have you, that, why are people so irresponsible?

Few days back my kids asked me; when people leave the scooter in the middle of a flyover, where do they go after that? We made a few wild guesses, we laughed and then we forgot about it.

Today evening, I had the pleasure of talking to Keerthi, a cab driver who drove us from the airport to home. And as the conversation progressed, we noticed a bunch of scooters parked in odd places like this and then he asked, "Sir, why do people leave scooters on the flyover?"

"And I see a few scooters even in the middle of the airport flyovers. The others I can understand - it is a 200 hundred metres walk, but what about the airport flyover? Something must be there. Is there an incentive to leave it on the flyover? Do they put it there and claim the vehicle ran out of fuel? And if they do that, do they get a discount for their next ride or some incentive? Or do they claim for a longer destination, make it appear to be stranded and then claim a discount?"

And then he added, whatever computer program the company makes - some body, somewhere, even if the person is 10th fail, will find a way around it.

All in all it was an interesting conversation. But he feels that there is some incentive for people to leave flyovers bang in the middle of flyovers. What do you think?


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