Electric scooter troubleshooting is a new business niche now being filled by Dan Borelli and John Heinkel in Pacific Beach.
\nThe trouble is, electric scooters continue to proliferate and\u00a0 be deposited everywhere along the beachfront, and on private property where they don\u2019t belong.
\nThe solution Borelli and Heinkel have come up with is simple: Impound them and charge the dockless companies a flat fee to pick them up, plus $2 a day storage.
\nBorelli is co-owner of Boardwalk Electric Rides Pacific Beach\/Boardwalk Rides at 4150 Mission Blvd. in the PB Promenade. Heinkel was one of his customers. That\u2019s how their new business got started one day last summer.
\n“I came in here to get a flat tire fixed for my daughter, and while Dan was fixing it, I turned to go get coffee and a scooter employee had parked scooters so close to his doorway that you had to go around them to get out,” said a miffed Henkel, who, after an unpleasant exchange with the employees, asked Borelli, “Why isn\u2019t someone impounding them?”
\nReplied Borelli, “They can\u2019t get anyone to do it.”
\nThat prompted the two men to launch a new business retrieving the ubiquitous scooters in July 2018, which has since morphed into Scooter Removal LLC, a free service for property and business owners.
\nBorelli noted people have become so frustrated by scooters parked on private property, and every which way, that they\u2019ve begun “throwing them in dumpsters.”
\nAdded Heinkel, “They\u2019re ending up in the dump.”
\n“You\u2019re not even allowed to pull them out of the garbage,” pointed out Borelli. “Once it gets into the garbage \u2014 it gets into the landfill.”
\nSubsequently Heinkel, who\u2019s been towing cars for 25 years, has added collecting errantly parked scooters as well in his flatbed truck that holds about 200 of them.
\n“People can call us, sign a tow authorization on the spot, and we take the scooter for free,” said Borelli. “We have a long list of private property owners who\u2019ve become frustrated with the lack of response from most of the scooter companies.
\n“Women have called saying scooters are parked so close to their cars or driveways that they can\u2019t get in or out,” said Heinkel, adding, “I\u2019m doing their job for them.”
\nThe business duo have a temporary storage shed behind the promenade in which they stash confiscated scooters.
\n“We\u2019ve impounded about 5,000 scooters in six months, about 150 a week, 500 a month,” noted Heinkel.\u00a0
\n“We\u2019re taking on new clients every day,” said Borelli.”If [scooter companies] don\u2019t pick them up here, they go out to a storage faculty in Spring Valley.” Need scooters removed? Call 858-262-1912 or\u00a0email scooterremoval@gmail.com.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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