Bike thieves!

[peregrinehill.livejournal.com]

Hi all,

Just a heads up, bike thieves with bolt-cutters are lurking around Teele Square, I guess in celebration of Bike Week. So take 'em indoors. We lost two bikes last night.

EDIT:
The stolen bikes were 1) a black 700c Marin Kentfield women's bike with a basket and a squirrel eaten seat and 2) a red 26" men's Schwinn Ranger mountain bike.

Comments

[miss-chance.livejournal.com]

Are you sure it was theives? Maybe it was the squirrels that gnawed through the cable, having come back to get the rest of the bike after eating the seat? ;-)

No, seriously, sorry about the loss of your bike. Don't let people play "blame the victim" on you for not using a U-lock. We all guage our risk factors every day, and even if your bike was attached to the pole with a garbage-bag twist-tie, it's still freakin' theft if someone took it without asking. My neighbor had her flowers (annuals) dug up out of her front yard and stolen, but no one gave her a hard time for not locking them up.


(Somerville squirrels *did* eat the starter-wire harness out of my van, though... Twice.)

[geekpixie.livejournal.com]

Seriously, her annuals? Now THAT is messed up...(and something I'd blame on squirrels...)

[miss-chance.livejournal.com]

seriously, her annuals. When the squirrels took my starter-wires they left little gnawed remains... the annuals had clean trowel-marks left.

[geekpixie.livejournal.com]

Squirrels with trowels, now they are getting sneaky....

[fefie.livejournal.com]

I've had hyacinth blossoms snipped, daylily blossoms broken off, and a sunflower pulled out of the ground and tossed elsewhere in the yard. Such are the non-animal hazards of having a garden on a busy street (Highland).

In the meantime I'll keep this thread in mind every time I haul my bike up flight of stairs to take it out of the cellar for a spin.

[blacktigr.livejournal.com]

We have had chronic horn problems with our car, and now we're having extra lights go off. Every time we go in, the car-fixing people tend to tell us that something's chewing through our cables.