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[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. Those things are so heavy that they are literally impossible for some people to move out of the way. [/quote]

Yes, I also don't like when people leave those in the middle of the sidewalk. Do I have to pick just one type of obnoxious neighbor to dislike? Can't I find both of them really annoying?

At any rate, in my neighborhood, at least, there are far more houses where the sidewalks are still covered in ice than there are scooters or bikes in the middle of the sidewalk. And at any rate, when it's not snowy, if there's a bike on the sidewalk, I can easily walk around it by stepping on the grass, which isn't covered in snow and ice. I can't easily walk around someone's icy sidewalk by walking on their snowy lawn.[/quote]

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