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Facebook free bikes dumped by employees and police hassle kids who ride them

Police are stopping children who are riding the bikes, which are cluttering city streets.

The baby-blue bikes, which are supposed to be used to get around Facebook's sprawling campus in Menlo Park, California, are turning up in nearby Bay Area neighborhoods like East Palo Alto. "Bikes are often abandoned by restaurants, bus stops, the train, and dumped in the San Francisquito Creek or the Baylands, also random street corners," one resident told Business Insider. A Facebook representative, Anthony Harrison, told Business Insider in an email that the company was "exploring a variety of ways to collaborate with local organizations so that we are able to support access, safety, and repairs for bike use in the community, but nothing is finalized yet."

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