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Something (Or Someone!) Has Already Pooped On A Citi Bike Station
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Rebecca Fishbein
Published May 17, 2013
Modified May 17, 2013
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Citi Bike still has a week left to launch, but one of its shiny new docking stations is already sporting a nice little turd surprise: an EV Grieve reader spotted a pretty good-sized piece of poop sitting on the first station at East 13th Street and Avenue B this morning, and snapped a few photos to remind the rest of us that Citi Bike will probably succumb to a fate as a glorified public toilet soon—not that we couldn't use a few of those!
Of course, lest you think this large piece of poop was just one errant bowel movement and not a political statement, it came accompanied by a few decidedly anti-CitiBike signs posted on the stand next to the docking station: "TO THE MAYor REMOVE All "CiTi BiKES" BoycoTT CiTy BAnK," and "CitiBank is responsible for all CitiBikes To be put in here. Stop Them Call 311 To Complain," [sic] with a signature that looks like it reads "DSG." We haven't had the opportunity to examine the specimen itself, but while EV Grieve believes it's just dog doodie, we're not ruling out the possibility that it came from the bowels of a human being. After all, we're no strangers to publicly shared defecation...
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