My lad's bike was stolen from a train station a few months back. He'd left it there while he was at work. He works for longer than an hour a day, like many others.
This was the BTP's response, so it's kind of mad to see that it's actual policy now.
Really makes you glad to pay the old national insurance and council tax, y'know?
14 Comments
Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world · 59 pts · 332d
Sorry, lads, the coppers are too busy persecuting people who make critical comments about the government.
unwarlikeExtortion@lemmy.ml · 7 pts · 332d
Don't forget the landed gentry's property rights which are sacrosanct. Us peasants owning actual stuff on the other hand can fuck right off.
BozeKnoflook@lemmy.world · 25 pts · 332d
Oh hell no. Decriminalize drugs, homelessness, or petty theft from major chain stores with insurance for that crap.
Now, bicycle theft? That strains my dedication to opposing state violence.
Four_mile_circus@lemmy.ml · 11 pts · 332d
rautapekoni@sopuli.xyz · 3 pts · 331d
All of this is true, but I still have zero sympathy for bike thieves. Go steal memory cards from a supermarket or something, leave other regular folks property alone you fucks.
queermunist@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 332d
Okay, but we aren't going to fix the social safety net. Nothing ever gets fixed. So, since that's never going to happen, this basically just means cyclists don't have the same property rights as motorists.
We already have fewer rights than anyone else on the road, now we have fewer rights off the road too.
If they decriminalized car theft then at least it would be fair. This is just a way to ensure cyclists stay second class commuters. We aren't even people to them, just annoying obstacles for motorists.
PowerCrazy@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 332d
According to the article, BTP won't investigate Car theft for cars being left more then 2hours.
queermunist@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 332d
Oh. Well. Hell yeah! That totally flips me around on the issue. 😮💨
eldavi@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 332d
my father gave me a lesson like this when i was young when my bike was stolen and now i only buy bikes that can be folded up and taken with me everywhere i go.
it's also bizarre that train conductors/authorities still count it as a regular bike even though it doesn't take up the same amount of room and a traditional bike.
HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml · 9 pts · 331d
So smashing car windows is getting decriminalized too right? RIGHT?
AceBonobo@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 332d
What the fuck. Horse thieves used to get the death penalty.
IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 331d
rich people had horses, poor people have bikes.
that explains it
utopiah@lemmy.ml · 6 pts · 331d
Optional registration with a bright visible yellow sticker in Belgium https://mybike.belgium.be/
Does it work? Who knows but at least signals to anybody who might want to still your bike that you went the extra mile to prevent theft and you will consequently be annoying enough to signal it at stolen wherever you can. Sure it can be removed somehow (Dremel I guess) but it's extra work that will look very suspicious on a "normal" sale.
FWIW it's also free, you just request the sticker on their Website and receive it by mail few days after.
pageflight@piefed.social · 5 pts · 332d
Plug for bikeindex.org, which I have heard used to actually recover stolen bikes in some cases.
HaraldvonBlauzahn@feddit.org · 2 pts · 240d
That argument is so dumb. Say the bike owner was away for ten hours, from 6:00 to 16:00 o'clock.
What you need to do is called 'bisection'. At 6:00, the bike is there. At 16:00, it isn't. You take half if that interval, which is 11:00. You look at 11:00, whether its there. If yes, you look at the mid between 11:00 and 16:00. If no, between 6:00 and 11:00.
Then hours are 600 Minutes, which means that after ten halvings you are down to the exact minute where the theft happened, and can watch the thief.
It's the same method as finding a page number in a large book.