Taco Bell running out of Nacho Fries is a bad reason to dial 911, as a recent TikTok video showed. But police in Ann Arbor, Mich., say residents can go ahead and call if someone abandons a rental scooter in front of their home.
A City Council member said he’s heard complaints about electric scooters from Ford Motor Co.’s Spin unit being left around town and asked about the issue during a meeting with the police chief and deputy chiefs.
“Hard to believe, but this is what they said: If you’re a resident and you have an abandoned scooter in front of your house, and it has been there for a while and it’s beeping and asking to be returned or whatever, they say go ahead and call 911 and tell them it’s not an emergency,” Jeff Hayner said during a council meeting, according to MLive. “And they’re going to dispatch [code enforcement officers] or actual police to deal with that scooter for you.”
Ford bought Spin in 2018. The company began a partnership with Ann Arbor in 2019 that allows up to 300 of the scooters after the city banned competing rental provider Bird.