CHATTER AWAY: Overnight Open Thread

October 3, 2019 JMG Community, Open Thread

A Florida man has been sneaking around his neighborhood tampering with electric scooters parked on the streets, police say. Fort Lauderdale police posted a surveillance video Tuesday showing a man walking up to an electrical scooter on the street, slapping a white sticker on its QR code, and cutting its brake lines.

Police say that more than 140 scooters have been disabled and vandalized in a similar way in the southeast part of Fort Lauderdale since April 5. Officers had already homed in on 59-year-old Randall Williams as a possible suspect, and the majority of the acts of vandalism happened within two blocks of his apartment.

This Florida man was caught on video cutting the brakes on these shared electronic scooters and is accused of vandalizing more than 140 of them pic.twitter.com/oPrZZmJ4yZ

— NowThis (@nowthisnews) October 3, 2019

He prowled the streets of Fort Lauderdale under cover of night, wire cutters in his pocket, one hand sheathed in a glove. Then, the police said, he carried out his crime: slashing the brake lines of electric scooters. https://t.co/Wn7f10Nbz0

— NYT Business (@nytimesbusiness) October 2, 2019