Lake Pollution
There aren’t many shipwrecks off Chicago’s coast anymore, but the city’s lakeshore has its own kind of ghostly marine curiosity: tons of rideshare bikes submerged in Lake Michigan’s shallow shorelines.
Now, a group of dedicated Lake Michigan swimmers are taking it upon themselves to bring the sunken rides back up with them.
The group is known as The Divvy Fishers Society and was started by Glenn Rischke, an unsung diving partner of the Great Lake Jumper, the local man known for his four-year streak of plunging into the lake every morning. Rischke said he started the cleanup crew in a last-ditch effort to “advocate for better waters.”
In Amsterdam (population 920,000), they pull over 15,000 bikes out of the canals ANNUALLY, so you can bet there are probably a few thousand here. And not just the lakefront. We've heard there is Pod Camera footage of hundreds of bikes being tossed off of various bridges over the past few years by disgruntled yutes. No one is bothering to recover those.
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posted by SCC at 12:03 AM
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"The group is known as The Divvy Fishers Society . . "
Sounds like a bunch of fuckin' dweebs.
If John Gacy could get rid of a Divvy bike.
The bikes should not be funded by the city with this crap going on. They are polluting the waterways.
Jason Lach Is a self serving stroke and bonfire liar. The fire department has never once pulled 30 divy bikes out in one day. NEVER ONCE. There is not a single person who works under him who likes or respects him.
Miss Cleo here baby...
I see something in the river...looks like ...baby stay away looks like wet,...
something wet, looks like a metal, something wet....I see fishes,...water
Call Miss Cleo for more...1-900-000-9999
There's a whole collection of Divy bikes in the homeless encampments on LWD. It's probably easier and safer to get them out of the lake.
So, for the sake of clarity:
1. Divy rents bikes, via kiosks with electronic card swipe payment, debit or credit. This manner of payment gives Divy both payment and deposit info which, reliably, Divy will dun the renter if bike is not returned to any kiosk. Thus, any Divy bikes found in the lake have either been paid for by renter dunning, or were stolen, from kiosk, from renter or ???
2. Those multitudes of Divy bikes seen abandoned here and there, what is that about? Stolen? Surely not abadoned by the renters, who risk being dunned for entire value of bike.
3. And what about those scooters? No scooters found in the lake? Those are left wherever the batteries run out of juice, just begging to be picked up by the scrappers.
4. Any Divy bikes used in muggings? Ride by muggings? Drive by/ride by shootings? Dope couriers? Were their any celebrators at the pride parade riding Divy bikes/scooters?
Was this Divy inundation brought to us by tiny dancer? After groot and now this putz, memories of mildly less retarded times are fading.
... if they can't eat it, fuck it or smoke it ....
Divvy bikes, CPS laptops, Jimmy Hoffa...
What's the carbon footprint of the Divvy vans that move the bikes around?
There’s quite a few in Mexico. Surprise anyone here?
Yonaiker, Huilson, and Jhonny, Chicago's newcomer (it's impolite to say illegal) Divvy-ots.
I wonder who is tossing them in the river, lake? Is it them again?
If you scuba dive under any Navy ship in port, you will see stolen bikes four feet deep.
I can only imagine what is in the river...bikes, shopping carts, bodies...etc
Are the seats prostate friendly? Asking for my partner.
Chicago taxpayers are on the hook for them. It was not supposed to cost public money. It was supposed to be all private Rahm brothers corporate money.
We were lied to.
How does Divvy make any money if all their bikes keep getting stolen, lost, hidden? Is the city
in some manner PAYING the cost of this? Are we in a contract with Divvy that the cost of having
this program for “citizens” comes out of this city’s budget? Another parking meter boondoggle?
The picture in that article is the definition of Libtard
Divy bikes seen in Dolton and Riverdale, sometimes painted over. Nobody cares.
Cook County Forest Preserve District tried leaving bikes in a Riverdale preserve; they disappeared forever in a week or so, and were never replaced.
Something I just learned: GPS badges don't work underwater. Probably have to use boats and sonar. Make the Divvy people pay for it a couple times a year.
I always see various "yuths" chilling on Divvy bikes, with much junk attached with them. I'm
confident they are all properly rented. The rental meter must be going on these long term riders.
Anonymous Anonymous said...
... if they can't eat it, fuck it or smoke it ....
7/05/2024 05:54:00 AM
If there is one thing I can take away from the job, this is it.
Sooooo consistent.
the culprits are “just kids” ... “knucklehead teenagers.” As usual, nobody dare mention the word that describes most of the young criminals in Chicago.
I always see various "yuths" chilling on Divvy bikes, with much junk attached with them. I'm
confident they are all properly rented. The rental meter must be going on these long term riders.
What a failure that program was/is...
Lately Chicago is known more for its failures, than for its successes...just saying
Maybe they should just "deep six" Divvy?
For the last week while driving to work, been seeing a diivy bike on the side of the road on Mannheim and montrose, just chilling. Would be a shame if it made it's way into the des plaines river or higgins creek
To the poster with the list of questions, Divvy bikes were easily stolen, from the racks or from customers. They were then used to commit other crimes. The scooters have also been stolen and tossed in the lake and river. As for the Divvy Fishers Society, you could've been the Divvy Divers. Fire whoever came up with the name, because that's a missed opportunity.
If they find number 39-23483 please drop it off at my pretty loft. It was always my favorite.
Now, kees me you fool!!!!
(OT) liberal newspaper reporting this incredible the connection Democrats:
The DNC's deadbeat Chicago landlord
https://chicago.suntimes.com/the-watchdogs/2024/07/05/democratic-national-convention-scott-goodman-cta-sterling-racine-chicago-sublease-office-west-loop
Anonymous said...
... if they can't eat it, fuck it or smoke it ....
7/05/2024 05:54:00 AM
As Miss Cleo would say, two out of three ain't bad...
I traveled to Amsterdam some years ago. I never saw so many bike in my life. Was interesting.
The city of Chicago will soon be rolling out DIVVY SCUBA!
Details to be announced at a later date.
In my time the midnight wagon crews would be out with grappling hooks, scrap value legal....
Divvy is one of the worst things for this city. Anyone seen numbers on how much it actually helps tourism, commuters, traffic, eh hem greenhouse gasses? How much tax funding goes down the toilet to fund this nonsense? Of course you don’t see those numbers widely reported, because my guess is it’s mostly a wash. It helps only two groups 1. Entities getting rich off the climate change agenda 2. the same element that is a nuisance in the city no matter where they are. You know, the Pains in the ass who used to have to do a bit a walking to wreak havoc outside their neighborhood now can just steal a Divvy. Lakefront pollution be damned we’ve got to reduce those carbon emissions.
Anonymous said...
(OT) liberal newspaper reporting this incredible the connection Democrats:
The DNC's deadbeat Chicago landlord
https://chicago.suntimes.com/the-watchdogs/2024/07/05/democratic-national-convention-scott-goodman-cta-sterling-racine-chicago-sublease-office-west-loop
7/05/2024 02:04:00 PM
Is that the same Scott Goodman, former Sterling Bay- Lincoln Yards- TIF grifter who then bought Lincoln Yards adjacent property for his new public sector grift company Fairpoint? The grifter that just keeps getting and getting and getting.
If they find number 39-23483 please drop it off at my pretty loft. It was always my favorite.
Now, kees me you fool!!!!
7/05/2024 01:42:00 PM
Maybe Bouncie has the balls to risk it.
I saw a divvy bike at York road and Irving in Dupage
I saw a divvy bike at York road and Irving in Dupage
7/06/2024 03:30:00 AM
I saw a divy bike in an alley with a fat rat sitting on the seat, trying to figure out how to eat it.
Or maybe that rat was just catching the scent of one of the ones riding the bike.
I refrained from inquiring.
Anonymous Anonymous said...
I wonder who is tossing them in the river, lake? Is it them again?
7/05/2024 08:14:00 AM
It's always them, Boo Boo.
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