http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: "Glaring eyes deter bike thieves" en Mon, 18 May 2026 21:41:38 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=10015#post-108555 Wed, 24 Apr 2013 13:20:36 +0000 Uberuce 108555@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Two blokes are out camping in the woods and as dusk falls one of them puts on a T-shirt with a staring pair of momma bear's eyes. The other one pipes up:</p> <p>"You're never going to outstare a bear, even with that"</p> <p>"Don't need to outstare it; just need to outstare you."</p> <p>As the Newcastle team member on R4's Today said, it just displaced the scrotes to nearby racks without the posters. The article kinda mentions that too. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=10015#post-108531 Wed, 24 Apr 2013 11:51:00 +0000 kaputnik 108531@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tyne-22270052">Staring eyes 'deter' Newcastle University bike thieves</a> </p> <p><em>People feel watched and behave better, researchers believe. Bike thefts have been reduced by putting pictures of staring eyes above cycle racks, researchers have found. </p> <p>A team from Newcastle University decided to test the theory that people behave better when they think they are being watched.</p> <p>For two years they studied crime rates at campus racks and found a drop of 62% at those which displayed eye posters</em></p> <p>BBIWY </p>