State, Local Crime Rate Down; Violent Crimes up by PHIL ATTINGER STAFF WRITER
HIGHLANDS NEWS-SUN Monday, June 28, 2021 VOL. 102 | NO. 179 | $1.00 YOUR HOMETOWN NEWSPAPER SINCE 1919 An Edition Of The Sun Scooters popular; some stolen Andrews: Fail safes help find, recover lost Birds By PHIL ATTINGER There have been some, module that runs and charges had taken apart the electric STAFF WRITER however, who haven’t used them. module on the handle bars, them properly. Andrews said So far, two were recovered, Polk Sheriff’s officials said. SEBRING — The popular a handful of the scooters have from Lorida and Avon Park, Deputies there recovered the Bird Scooter has given people “walked off.” Andrews said. Another was scooter and informed the shopping in Sebring’s down- About seven users took recovered by the Polk County Sebring Police Department, COURTESY GRAPHIC/DAN town area a quicker way to visit vehicles out of Community Sheriff’s Office after Dan which had the original theft FEATHERS shops, using the electric-motor Redevelopment Agency District Feathers, who assists Andrews report. two-wheeled vehicles to get and never returned them. in managing the fleet, tracked The remaining three scooters If you want to take a Bird Scooter them around faster than their “They’re no good outside a missing one to an address ended up on the bottom of outside the downtown area, you can feet can take them. downtown,” Andrews said. off State Road 60, west of Lake Lake Jackson, no longer usable. if you hug the shores of Lake Jackson, “They are a really small That hasn’t stopped some Wales. Any permanently disabled as seen from the Bird mobile app compact scooter, think of a people from trying to make the Officials with the Polk County scooter is a $1,200 loss, which also shows some of the nearest little child’s Razor scooter, but public transit option a personal Sheriff said they found the Andrews said.
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