just a comment(stolen bikes)

[nancielle]

In the spring of 2005 I came home from work and found my mountain bike out in my back yard, sans the two Kryptonite locks I kept on it in our apartment building's storage area. I was furious. Turns out my then cheesy-butt landlord had allowed his even cheesier-butt handyman/slacker buddy to "borrow" it and he used bolt cutters to cut the locks. He "replaced" my lock with an enormous, rusted chain & padlock, which was wrapped around the seat stem (I guess he didn't take into account that I could flip the lever under the seat, remove it and the offending chain). I don't live in one of the better neighborhoods and nobody in their right mind would leave a bike out in the open like that. I'm lucky & grateful that it wasn't stolen. Despite the fact that I had had knee surgery just days earlier, I ended up having to haul the bike up to my second floor apartment while trying to balance on crutches.

Why, yes, I am still peaved about that.