bike security

[logdiva32]

i m from bflo. they will steal your bike in 1 min, literally..
http://www.gothamist.com/archives/20..._the_da_27.php

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[Grog]

Fabulous! Next time I hear someone say it's best to lock your bike in a busy place, I know I'll be right to laugh.

There's NOTHING to be done against bike thieves.

[DarcyInOregon]

I like the last scene, where the one person who took notice gave him advice on how to steal the bike better, while a police car was sitting right there.

All of the pedestrians, none of them were cyclists. If I saw anyone messing with a bike like that, I would call 911, or start screaming at the top of my lungs, or maybe bop him a big one. Cyclists are attentive to other bicycles. People who don't bicycle, well the bicycles are like the lamp posts, they don't see the bikes, becaue the bikes are just part of the urban clutter. Only cyclists and thieves see bicycles.

I was walking down a street in Paris last year. There was a bicycle wheel with a super thick chain, and the chain was wrapped around a lamp post. That was all there was, the wheel and the chain. I felt so bad. Somebody's precious bike was gutted, and only the wheel was left behind. It was a sad sight.

Darcy

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

If I saw anyone messing with a bike like that, I would call 911, or start screaming at the top of my lungs, or maybe bop him a big one.

In NYC, you don't start screaming at someone stealing stuff- they might shoot you or knife you! Likewise bopping them one- do you want to get knifed over something like that? Calling 911 won't get you anywhere either- they will not respond to burgleries, etc, they'll tell you to call the police. By the time the police send in a request and get there, the thief will be LONG gone with bike. Your only chance would be if you can flag down a passing cop who can snag the guy before he sees the approaching cop and simply runs off. Altogether, not very good odds.

[pooks]

I still maintain that one reason the guy as able to do that is because he didn't act sneaky or surreptitiously.

When somebody carries a huge cutter and strolls up to a bike and cuts the chain, I'm going to be thinking, "That MUST be his bike, because surely no thief would be that brazen."

I would love to see them do the experiment and have the thief look like they're trying not to be notice or caught.

[LadyinWhite]

In NYC, you don't start screaming at someone stealing stuff- they might shoot you or knife you! Likewise bopping them one- do you want to get knifed over something like that? Calling 911 won't get you anywhere either- they will not respond to burgleries, etc, they'll tell you to call the police. By the time the police send in a request and get there, the thief will be LONG gone with bike. Your only chance would be if you can flag down a passing cop who can snag the guy before he sees the approaching cop and simply runs off. Altogether, not very good odds.

Agreed. Exactly true. Hell, even if you see someone being physically hurt and do call 911 it may be minutes before you even get through. Add traffic into the mix and more minutes have gone by before the police/ambulance arrive. NYC is the absolute last place on earth you should have a heart attack because the ambulance literally cannot get to you in time.

I will say this, the chain used to lock the bike doesn't look at all like the chains I usually see locking bikes in the city. It is a fraction of the size. A bike thief is bound to go for a lighter weight chain like that. Not to say the heavier chain is a sure thing, heavens no, but at least the thief would need some SERIOUS cutters or longer than 6 min to cut through it.