Still, in San Francisco, Bird's start-initially, make clear-afterwards plan backfired after Bird, Lime, and Spin unleashed some 3,000 scooters on the town in March 2018--an party that received the tag "Scootergeddon." San Francisco banned scooters till regulators proven a pilot application, but when the town begun licensing corporations, Bird located itself on the outside the house on the lookout in, as did Lime and Spin.