Bike Thieves

[ilima]

Last night on the local (Honolulu) news I saw a story about a family that had bikes stolen out of their (open) garage in the middle of the afternoon. They had stuff stolen before & had set up cameras at the neighbors. So, now they have very fuzzy pictures of the bike thieves.

Maybe said thieves need to read the news more often, as it's now okay to shoot and kill alleged thieves leaving your neighbors house:

http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/06/30/....ap/index.html

[Chicken Little]

My bikes on on the wall in the garage, with a spider web of locks on them them would take a thief an hour to figure out, and a padlock on the garage door rails.
Everything walks that isn't bolted down in Albuquerque.

[Miranda]

Last night on the local (Honolulu) news I saw a story about a family that had bikes stolen out of their (open) garage in the middle of the afternoon. They had stuff stolen before & had set up cameras at the neighbors. So, now they have very fuzzy pictures of the bike thieves.

Maybe said thieves need to read the news more often, as it's now okay to shoot and kill alleged thieves leaving your neighbors house:

http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/06/30/....ap/index.html

Thx for that link. I just asked my neighbor to watch over the house for the holiday travel. Bikes will be with us. My neighbor E-ed back and said they had some things stolen out of their garage in the winter. Our subs pretty quite normally. Maybe it makes for a better place to steal.

[Miranda]

Thx ladies for those thoughts. Lock purchase for the rack is on the list for today. DH mtb it pretty nice, but mine is by far the most $. One that was pulled out of the rack of course. The rack's heavy... if locked down, I don't think it would be worth it to proceed further for a thief.

My poor lab has been very ill. She's having back issues and can barely walk. She's a gentle breed, but that big dog bark sounds intimidating. If she had been well, I don't think the theives would have gotten that close to the house, much less inside the garage. People are crazy.

[Lifesgreat]

I lock my bikes to the rack in the garage. About the only material item of importance to me is my beloved Fatty Lumpkin. I would be really mad if he got stolen. I also lock my MTB, but it isn't as beloved-sorry MTBikers.

[beccaB]

We keep the good bikes downstairs. In the basement. It is a royal pain carrying them upstairs. That makes us do more miles because it's not worth it to drag the bikes up for a wimpy ride! My biggest reason is that I don't like spiders, and the only option is to store them in the barn with the spiders. If one got one on me when I'm riding I would crash!
We have some crappy bikes in the barn, and I would still be mad if someone got them. But they'd have to fight with the spiders, snakes, rodents and wasps, and my dog barking.

[Grog]

Really sorry about this scary event...

Last night my sweet partner was telling me about how his sister's and dad's bikes were stolen from their suburban open garage, which they had left open for 30 seconds while they were indoors, over 15 years ago...

It seems that some people specialize in that type of thefts. Probably bikes are only one thing they steal, others being expensive tools...

[Running Mommy]

Also if you park your car in the driveway- take in your garage door opener.
There were a few thefts here in our hood where they broke into the car, got the opener out, and then had their way with the contents of the garage. Also make sure you lock your door that leads from the garage into the house.

Sad we have to do it, but better to be safe than sorry!