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It didn’t take local woman Sarah Platts long to figure out what her roommate got up to last night after she walked out into their living room and found a Lime Bike and helmet discarded near the door.

“Soph must have got hammered last night,” Platts said.

“I didn’t even know she knew how to ride a bike” she informed our reporter.

Whilst our reporter was still on the scene, Sophie emerged from her room looking and smelling a little worse for wear.

“What’s that Lime Bike doing in here?” she asked, slowly putting together the dots.

“Shit, I must have been level 10 pissed last night to ride that home,” Sophie said.

“How do you even hire them? How did I even ride it? I have so many questions”

“How’s it going to get out of here?”

Sophie’s situation seemed a little familiar, so our reporter reached out a Lime Bike representative for comment, however after being bounced around between people was ultimtately unsuccessful.

An anonymous hacker, who The Advocate employs sometimes, was able to uncover the booking confirmations of Lime Bike and revealed that the company actually earn the majority of their income from hires between 10:30 pm and 2:00 am.

It’s yet to be confirmed if these are the hires of drunk people or simply those who enjoy light exercise at night.

More to come.