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Tyre slasher George Square

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  1. cb.pola
    Member

    So, my daughter started her new job today, and cycled in to town and parked her bike in front of the psychology building on George Square at 10am.
    At just after 7pm she retrieved her bike - only to find that she had a flat front tyre.
    Rather than walk home alone, she sensibly phoned us and her dad picked her up in the car with the bike rack and brought her home. They just went out to fix the puncture, only to discover it has been slashed - a gash about 12cm long with clear evidence of at least 2-3 separate cut marks.

    Now this is obviously annoying - but what concerns me most is that this was done to a ladies-frame bike with a fairly low seat (because my daughter isn't overly tall).
    That suggests to me it was targeted by someone who wanted to make sure that a smallish female was left to push an incapacitated bike home across the meadows, probably late in the evening.
    I'd be really interested to hear if this has happened to anyone else and will be letting University of Edinburgh security know it happened - again so if someone is making a habit of this they can keep watch and possibly involve police.
    Let's be careful, out there.

    Posted 9 years ago #

  2. acsimpson
    Member

    That's pretty shocking. Is there any CCTV around there?

    Posted 9 years ago #

  3. SRD
    Moderator

    Grim, and odd. I park very close to there regularly and gave never heard of problems.

    You might let the university transport office know too.

    (Edit - although like kaputnik I would not have thought that it was necessarily being targeted)

    Posted 9 years ago #

  4. kaputnik
    Moderator

    @Cb.pola that's no good. No good at all.

    I realise you're rightly suspicious. It's a fairly common bike thief target to do something to immobilise a bike i.e. put an extra lock on it, lock another bike to it, nick a QR wheel. The owner can't move the bike, leaves it overnight and comes back to find the thieves have had time to steal the rest of it...

    I'd suspect a lot of bikes around George Square are ladies frames, step-throughs, low saddles etc. and also people are coming and going all the time, so it would be quite hard to target a specific individual leaving at specific time.

    It would be worth reporting to the campus security or whatever they call porters these days. It may have been lots of other bikes were slashed too.

    Posted 9 years ago #

  5. cb.pola
    Member

    Uni of Ed Transport & Parking and Security both notified.
    I've parked my own bike there any number of times - but mine is an ancient, scruffy looking (though actually terrific and mechanically well maintained) man's-frame bike.
    Let's hope it was just a nasty one-off.

    Posted 9 years ago #

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