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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I can think of lots of legitimate reasons why someone may not have shoveled their sidewalk.

I can't think of a single good reason why someone may leave their bike/e-bike/scooter on the sidewalk.

Save your tsk-tsking for those *ssholes. [/quote]
The only legit reason is that you are out of town. It's your responsibility and if you can't do it yourself, you [b]must[/b] ask someone else to do it. [/quote]

You gonna sic the city on someone in hospice? You going to demand they ticket a woman with dementia who has no one to help her? You going to complain about someone who works 16 hours a day? There's a million reasons why someone might not shovel as quickly as you'd like them to. Save your outrage for something that isn't completely stupid. 
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DP. I have neighbors who I know are not in hospice, do not have dementia, and do not work 16 hours a day. I frequently seem them jogging during the workday, in fact, or putting up very elaborate yard displays for Halloween. And yet they couldn't be bothered to shovel their sidewalks in either of the recent snowstorms despite the fact that there are infirm and elderly people on the block, too (most of whom DID manage to get their walks cleared, one way or the other).

If you just don't feel like shoveling or don't think it's important, I think you're a perfectly legitimate target for scorn and outrage.[/quote]

Apparently. And yet it snows maybe twice a year? Seems like a bigger problem is people leaving bikes and ebikes and scooters everywhere.[b] Those things are so heavy that they are literally impossible for some people to move out of the way[/b]. [/quote]

What does this mean? They are on wheels and yes they roll even if you have not paid for them.  I rarely see them left perpendicular to the sidewalk, vs. 95% of the time parallel in the curb box, and the other 4.9% parallel near the curb box.[/quote]

No, some don’t roll easily. You have to drag them out of the way. Hard for some older people, people with disabilities, etc.

But that has absolutely nothing to do with the subject of this thread. It’s stupid to keep arguing that it does - as the PP keeps doing.

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