Can't blame them. I always park my bike at the end of those things, to give some usability to others, but no way do I want my bike in the slots where some kid on a beater BSO is going to toss his bike into mine and trash it. Always fun trying to extract your bike from popular racks like that.

Then again, as that rack has been cut at least once (presumably to steal a bike), I can't imagine using it anyhow.