Four e-scooters have been found dumped into river near Beeston. Oliver Cookman, 27, of Nottinghamshire, discovered the e-scooters in Tottle Brook near the University of Nottingham campus yesterday afternoon (December 4).
He described it as a shock that someone would put the e-scooters there. Oliver said: "I don't really use e-scooters at all, I walk or I run or whatever, but that little brook is a nice area that I run along quite a lot.
"It goes along the canal and it's a nice area so it was a bit disappointing to see that people had just dumped them there as you shouldn't really be littering in rivers anyway, so it was quite shocking. I guess it's not too surprising in a big city like this that there are idiots who do stuff like this."
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He added: "I've not used the scooters personally, but friends of mine and people I know use them. On the app they sometimes say they cannot find a scooter, and if there are four or five in a little stream, then that takes them out of the area as well."
Oliver added that the damage caused would probably cost a lot to repair, as the river "could not have been good for the batteries or any of the electrics".
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