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@rjamesjones:
These guys just stole my bike from outside a pub in Islington.
He laughed as he cycled off.
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'spect he was laughing at the way the bike had been locked.
Be warned...
CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Cycling News
Bicycle theft on Twitter
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Posted 13 years ago #
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I'm quite sure my first thought if someone was stealing my bike probably wouldn't be "gosh, better tweet this!".
Posted 13 years ago # -
At least he had presence of mind/bottle to take photo.
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It wasn't actually him who took the photo. He was down the street and running to try and stop them - a passer-by snapped them realising what they were doing (and thinking, probably rightly, that they weren't going to risk getting beaten up for the sake of someone else's bike).
Posted 13 years ago # -
So it would seem. I therefore retract my earlier comments and replace it with one decrying the fall of society for standing by and watching someone else's bike being stolen.
Also, locking around the seatpost...
Posted 13 years ago # -
The bystander with the camera might have been a 14 year old girl with a gammy leg and a broken arm in a sling... ;)
I'd like to think I'd do something. At the very least shout and so on, but if it wasn't possible (or I was a wee slip of a thing that was scared of the two burly men) the next best thing is a very good and identifiable photo really.
Feel free to carry on retracting... :P
As for locking around the seatpost, that was just truly moronic.
Posted 13 years ago # -
"locking around the seatpost"
At least it confirms the theory that thieves look for the easiest bikes to steal.
(Not much consolation if your expensive bike was padlocked to a ground anchor and removed from a securely locked shed!)
Bottom line lock the bike to something solid.
Cast iron stair railings not ideal.
Not sure about downpipes -
http://www.cyclestreets.net/location/3495
And there was a picture on the Internet recent of a tree cut down by bike thieves.
Can't remember where.
Posted 13 years ago # -
I decided against using a tree at the gallery at the weekend when there was little space on the few cycle racks.
Downpipes always look too easily-wrenchable-out, even if they're not already partially-rusted.Posted 13 years ago # -
a closer inspection of the "wooden" bike racks down at Western Harbour revealed a metal core laminated with 2 semi-circular bits of wood.
Posted 13 years ago # -
If we are very lucky maybe some would be thief will try taking an axe to it then....
Posted 13 years ago # -
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carltonreid:Thief shins 30ft to nick bike from balcony; tries to flog in bike shop; bike's owner in shop, cries foul:
Original Tweet: http://twitter.com/carltonreid/status/88570169626071040
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Posted 13 years ago #
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