CityCyclingEdinburgh was launched on the 27th of October 2009 as "an experiment".
IT’S TRUE!
CCE is 15years old!
Well done to ALL posters
It soon became useful and entertaining. There are regular posters, people who add useful info occasionally and plenty more who drop by to watch. That's fine. If you want to add news/comments it's easy to register and become a member.
RULES No personal insults. No swearing.
Staring eyes 'deter' Newcastle University bike thieves
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.
A team from Newcastle University decided to test the theory that people behave better when they think they are being watched.
For two years they studied crime rates at campus racks and found a drop of 62% at those which displayed eye posters
BBIWY
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:
"You're never going to outstare a bear, even with that"
"Don't need to outstare it; just need to outstare you."
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.
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