Thieves snap up rental scooters in SF




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Summary: Shared electric scooters are disappearing from city streets in high numbers as thieves target the portable vehicles. “In the first two weeks, we lost 200 vehicles to theft, which was just shocking,” said Michael Keating, CEO and founder of San Francisco’s Scoot Networks. “People were grabbing them all the time. We realized that if we kept losing them at that rate, we wouldn’t have any left.