A federal judge in Atlanta tossed out a personal injury complaint by a bicyclist who suffered a broken hip when he ran over a Bird scooter left in the roadway.

In dismissing the case as “dead-on-arrival,” Northern District Judge Michael Brown nonetheless painted an unflattering picture of the unregulated free-for-all that—until the streets were cleared by the coronavirus pandemic—often resulted from city’s welter of rental scooters.