Los Angeles Secures Its First Drunk Scooter-Riding Conviction

A Bird Rides Inc. shared electric scooter.

Photographer: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg
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The takeover of the streets of Los Angeles by electric scooters reached a new milestone Thursday after a 28-year-old man became the first to be convicted in the city for riding a Bird scooter while drunk.

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