THIEF CAUGHT WITH 10 STOLEN BIKES
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THIEF CAUGHT WITH 10 STOLEN BIKES
Postby paolo_ski » Tue Apr 03, 2012 8:52 pm
Thanks for the help everyone!
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Re: THIEF CAUGHT WITH 10 STOLEN BIKES
Postby PawPaw » Tue Apr 03, 2012 9:00 pm
But am interested in how your bike got stolen. What sort of lock did you use?
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Postby paolo_ski » Tue Apr 03, 2012 9:14 pm
My lock was ignored, rather he cut my chain with bolt cutters. In retrospect, the chain was very unreliable and I will be investing a lot of money in a D-lock/chain combo. Any recommendations on security strategies?PawPaw wrote:Dunno.
But am interested in how your bike got stolen. What sort of lock did you use?
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Postby RonK » Tue Apr 03, 2012 9:30 pm
There is only one 100% reliable strategy - do not let your bike out of your sight...paolo_ski wrote:[Any recommendations on security strategies?
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Re: THIEF CAUGHT WITH 10 STOLEN BIKES
Postby paolo_ski » Tue Apr 03, 2012 9:41 pm
I wish that were possible.. the day it was stolen i spent 9 hours in a basement doing a uni assignmentRonK wrote:There is only one 100% reliable strategy - do not let your bike out of your sight...
Looking forward to a nice ride home and BAM, bike is gone
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Postby Mulger bill » Tue Apr 03, 2012 10:06 pm
The only good bike thief is fertiliser.
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Postby trailgumby » Tue Apr 03, 2012 10:18 pm
You have a way with words, MB.Mulger bill wrote:The only good bike thief is fertiliser.
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Postby Nobody » Tue Apr 03, 2012 10:45 pm
http://www.lfgss.com/post563834-1.htmlpaolo_ski wrote:My lock was ignored, rather he cut my chain with bolt cutters. In retrospect, the chain was very unreliable and I will be investing a lot of money in a D-lock/chain combo. Any recommendations on security strategies?PawPaw wrote:Dunno.
But am interested in how your bike got stolen. What sort of lock did you use?
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Re: THIEF CAUGHT WITH 10 STOLEN BIKES
Postby ZepinAtor » Tue Apr 03, 2012 11:08 pm
There are many deterrents you can try, but there is no guarantee.paolo_ski wrote: Any recommendations on security strategies?
You can remove your quick release skewers. You may be lucky & find the thief down the road after the front wheel falls out.
Take your seat & post out. The bike looks abandoned, but may also incite others to trash it further.
Wrap the entire frame in duct tape. Tear your bar tape up & never clean it. If it looks really ugly nobody will want it.
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Postby paolo_ski » Tue Apr 03, 2012 11:21 pm
That sounds way too hipster for my likingZepinAtor wrote:Wrap the entire frame in duct tape. Tear your bar tape up & never clean it. If it looks really ugly nobody will want it.
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Postby Max » Wed Apr 04, 2012 6:24 am
Yeh... including the owner.ZepinAtor wrote:If it looks really ugly nobody will want it.
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Postby dynamictiger » Wed Apr 04, 2012 7:25 am
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Re: THIEF CAUGHT WITH 10 STOLEN BIKES
Postby grasshopper » Wed Apr 04, 2012 8:30 am
Assuming you reported your bike stolen, get online and find the police media release to identify which station nabbed him. Call the station, give them your theft report number and bike description (ideally with a photo) and ask what happens next. It may well take a while, but worth asking. It will save them some hassle if they know who owns the property.paolo_ski wrote:Yesterday, I heard on the news that a man had been caught in the Northern suburbs with 10 stolen bikes and is being lawyer'd, etc. Now, assuming that my bike was one of the 10 which he was caught with, will I get it back and how long might it take? (ie do they need to hold it as evidence until the (slow & drawn out) process of the law has run its course)
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Re: THIEF CAUGHT WITH 10 STOLEN BIKES
Postby RetroPilot » Wed Apr 04, 2012 9:34 am
was your bikes theft reported to police before the big mass bike bust went down?
as big a deal as a bloke being caught with 10 stolen bikes sounds to the bike community, I doubt it is exactly The Great Bookie Heist to the police.
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Postby Sydguy » Wed Apr 04, 2012 11:10 am
I want to be able to cycle a good bike to/from a whole bunch of places but as there are no secure bike parking places it is not worth losing $3,000. Sadly it would be cheaper to get taxi's everywhere.
Maybe bike theft should be seen as a serious crime and attract at least 12 months in gaol, I can only guess that your 'average' bike thief is not going to fare so well in a prison. Their daily shower might include some extras.
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Postby RetroPilot » Wed Apr 04, 2012 12:25 pm
Sydguy wrote:This is a key issue as to why cycling is not taking off in my opinion.
I want to be able to cycle a good bike to/from a whole bunch of places but as there are no secure bike parking places it is not worth losing $3,000. Sadly it would be cheaper to get taxi's everywhere.
Maybe bike theft should be seen as a serious crime and attract at least 12 months in gaol, I can only guess that your 'average' bike thief is not going to fare so well in a prison. Their daily shower might include some extras.
JM
Id agree that the spandex/lycra outfits wont work in prison...or else will work a little too well.....
the lifting weights thing will also screw up your training times with too much upper body weightgain...
Seriously, as for the penalties, I mean young punks need to be on their XXXth offense to even get jail time for car theft...so taking bike theft seriously would mean taking the whole gammut of proeprty crime seriously, in fact taking crimes which dont happen to politicians or civil-liberties activist lawyers seriously also in general including mere crimes of serious violent injury..
We'd have to start somewhere with this flogging and stocks platform ..
I'm all for it....I just doubt it would be starting with bicycle theft.
Id personally start with "graffiti-artists" taggers..Singapore-ise that offence.
and start working upwards.
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Postby zero » Tue Apr 17, 2012 1:39 pm
Theft is largely treated the same regardless of object stolen. ie don't count on the cops to do much. they might recover it if its dumped, or if the thief screws up royally fencing items.Sydguy wrote:This is a key issue as to why cycling is not taking off in my opinion.
I want to be able to cycle a good bike to/from a whole bunch of places but as there are no secure bike parking places it is not worth losing $3,000. Sadly it would be cheaper to get taxi's everywhere.
Maybe bike theft should be seen as a serious crime and attract at least 12 months in gaol, I can only guess that your 'average' bike thief is not going to fare so well in a prison. Their daily shower might include some extras.
JM
There is no reason that you can't own a $100 bike to cover the most risky journeys and parking locations, and still do 95% of your commuting on a nicer bike. In any case, my MTB has survived some 6 years of being d-locked in public and occasionally overnighting - $2700 new. The main loss of owning it has been depreciation - its probably not worth much more than $500 these days despite getting an updated warranty frame in 2009.
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Postby ZepinAtor » Tue Apr 17, 2012 8:19 pm
I don't believe we've met ?Max wrote:Yeh... including the owner.ZepinAtor wrote:If it looks really ugly nobody will want it.
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Postby idw » Mon May 07, 2012 9:43 pm
I belive he ment that the owner wouldnt want said bike as it'd be uglyZepinAtor wrote:I don't believe we've met ?Max wrote:Yeh... including the owner.ZepinAtor wrote:If it looks really ugly nobody will want it.
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Postby paolo_ski » Sat May 12, 2012 5:34 pm
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Re: THIEF CAUGHT WITH 10 STOLEN BIKES
Postby Cheesewheel » Tue May 15, 2012 9:06 pm
I have a few bikes. For my expensive one's that I leave in a public space I have a Newyork D lock - I read a blog about different locks that were tested (with hacksaw, hammer, bolt cutters etc) in a blog (might have found the link somewhere on this site) and it came out on top.paolo_ski wrote:My lock was ignored, rather he cut my chain with bolt cutters. In retrospect, the chain was very unreliable and I will be investing a lot of money in a D-lock/chain combo. Any recommendations on security strategies?PawPaw wrote:Dunno.
But am interested in how your bike got stolen. What sort of lock did you use?
For my ancient dippy hybrid bike (complete with a fastened broom stick to mount a surfboard carrier - I think if there was an ugly bike competition I might be the winner) I lock it with two cables and two locks - just to make it slightly less attractive to potential thieves than what it already is
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Postby Oltre » Sat Aug 04, 2012 3:45 pm
Either way, you are a victim of crime (VOC)... nice to see a reference that affected owners will be paid out - but to what value?
If you have suffered any loss of income (aka economic loss) or incurred expenses (e.g. alternative transport) you may try applying for more via the VOC scheme for which the Crown Solicitor is responsible but they always play hard ball and pay peanuts (see http://www.lawhandbook.sa.gov.au/ch36.php).
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