Stroller theft?

[brewso.livejournal.com]

I will be a mama soon (!), and we recently purchased a relatively pricey new stroller. I am wondering about bringing it to places like Davis Square businesses and leaving it outside. I feel like I will be constantly worried about it. My thinking is that bikes get stolen all the time, even when they're locked - why not strollers? Some of them are worth more than the average bike. What do you all think? Should I lock it? Has anyone ever locked their stroller? Has anyone ever heard of a stroller being stolen around here? Am I just being paranoid? 

Comments

[haptotrope.livejournal.com]

I would consider locking it-- just a silly derrent style lock.. not a full-on fryptonite with new york chains and stuff.

Though if you do, I would also seriously consider careful placement to allow wheelchair'd folks to get through without tripping/running into any uberstrollers (anyone remember when these things could fold up and you could store them like an umbrella in the corner of the store?.)

[zmgmeister.livejournal.com]

Yes. From what I can remember of the stroller me and my li'l brother rode in, it was a little metal thing you could fold up and carry with one hand.

The baby buggies you see now look like some perambulator from a Victorian novel, and some of the "babies" look about eight years old.

[mattdm.livejournal.com]

The fold-up-and-carry-with-one-hand ones are great for some things (like, say, folding up and carrying with one hand), but aren't good for traveling long distances in the city. Every bump in the sidewalk is magnified, and the little swivel wheels just can't hold up - and I don't mean that it jostles the poor kid too much more something, I mean it gets tiresome to push. And if there's snow, they just basically can't go.

You don't have to have a super-fashion-accessory stroller, but having something with big wheels is nice. If you're going to be out for the day in the city (rather than just darting from your car across the mall parking lot) a decent amount of carrying capacity is required. And if walking and public transportation are your primary mode of transportation, you need something that will hold up. (I wouldn't be surprised if we've put over a thousand miles on our stroller.)