Bike thief karma on ray darcy today

neris

Listening to Ray Darcy this morning one of the guys who works on the show was telling how his bike which was on its way to the bike shop to have the brakes fixed was stolen last friday when he ran into a shop to get food and locked it to a pole. He ran after the guy only to find the guy sprawled out on the ground behind a car after he rear ended it because he couldnt stop. He described the thief as a junkie who looked up and told him the brakes were dodgy and that just wasnt on.

tommmy1979

Love it..

If i have to leave my bike unlocked outside a shop for a minute or two, i undo the front QR and lift the the front fork off the axle. Looking forward to finding a bike thief picking his teeth up off the ground some day.

T

Hungrycol

tommmy1979 wrote: »

Love it..

If i have to leave my bike unlocked outside a shop for a minute or two, i undo the front QR and lift the the front fork off the axle. Looking forward to finding a bike thief picking his teeth up off the ground some day.

T

That's what I do too. Put it in a hard gear and loosen both QR's. Shush though it's a secret, don't want them junkey fellers to get wind of this!

sy

tommmy1979 wrote: »

Love it..

If i have to leave my bike unlocked outside a shop for a minute or two, i undo the front QR and lift the the front fork off the axle. Looking forward to finding a bike thief picking his teeth up off the ground some day.

T

Nice tip

rp

neris wrote: »

... He ran after the guy only to find the guy sprawled out on the ground behind a car after he rear ended it because he couldnt stop. He described the thief as a junkie who looked up and told him the brakes were dodgy and that just wasnt on.

Lucky he wasn't in the UK, the thief could have sued him.

afatbollix

rp wrote: »

Lucky he wasn't in the UK, the thief could have sued him.

Thats bollixs

rp

afatbollix wrote: »

Thats bollixs

So is this

Lumen

rp wrote: »

So is this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5eBT6OSr1TI

zinzan

Did they mention if he got the cops onto the wannabe thief or did he just let him walk?

rochefan

tommmy1979 wrote: »

Love it..

If i have to leave my bike unlocked outside a shop for a minute or two, i undo the front QR and lift the the front fork off the axle. Looking forward to finding a bike thief picking his teeth up off the ground some day.

T

What I have done before is put the chain in the small front chainring and in the small rear sprocket, then set the front mech to the large ring and the rear to the highest. If someone was to jump on and try to cycle the gears would crunch big time and really slow them down. As I have campag they probably wouldn't have the class to use them right either!!

CramCycle

tommmy1979 wrote: »

Love it..

If i have to leave my bike unlocked outside a shop for a minute or two, i undo the front QR and lift the the front fork off the axle. Looking forward to finding a bike thief picking his teeth up off the ground some day.

T

I hate to ask but surely locking it would be just as quick?

neris

zinzan wrote: »

Did they mention if he got the cops onto the wannabe thief or did he just let him walk?

he let him walk for some stupid reason but he did say he was a junkie and he felt that your man hitting the car was good enough punishment.

Rew

There talking about it again now

Riskymove

neris wrote: »

he let him walk for some stupid reason but he did say he was a junkie and he felt that your man hitting the car was good enough punishment.

it seems the guy was out and about and saw his previously stolen bike locked

the cops told him that he had no right to break lock and take bike...I suppoose there is some issue about rights, legal ownership etc...after all the bike could be bought by someone who did not know it was stolen etc

the mistake was the cops not identifying and confronting the guy who came back to get it

CramCycle

Riskymove wrote: »

it seems the guy was out and about and saw his previously stolen bike locked

the cops told him that he had no right to break lock and take bike...I suppoose there is some issue about rights, legal ownership etc...after all the bike could be bought by someone who did not know it was stolen etc

the mistake was the cops not identifying and confronting the guy who came back to get it

If you bought stolen goods, knowingly or not, it makes no difference, the property still belongs to the original owner.

The only issue here is the lock and that could be the issue for the police (technically damaging somebodys property), although honestly, I think it was just stupidity on the part of the person she contacted to double check.

Those community officers are all over the place and she could have easily hung around without raising suspicions and asked the lock owner when he went to unlock the bike.

afatbollix

He should of got his own lock and put it on the bike so they couldent just ride off..

O ya the police are not lawyers the court would throw out that case for a lock that costs a 5er.. The police he talked too was one of them cops who do it for free and arent trained..

Khannie

Surely he should just let the person sue him for damages to his lock if it came to it.

si_guru

afatbollix wrote: »

He should of got his own lock and put it on the bike so they couldn't just ride off..

..and smear dog **** on the first lock.

afatbollix

superglue!

Rew

Riskymove wrote: »

it seems the guy was out and about and saw his previously stolen bike locked

the cops told him that he had no right to break lock and take bike...I suppoose there is some issue about rights, legal ownership etc...after all the bike could be bought by someone who did not know it was stolen etc

the mistake was the cops not identifying and confronting the guy who came back to get it

You sure about that, didnt hear it as part of yesterday or todays talk about it

neris

yesterday he said that he was taking the bike to the bike shop and went in to another shop and coming out a woman ran over to tell him the bike had been nicked. he did also say that he had 4 other bikes stolen so maybe thats what he was on about today. i had it on today but didnt hear coz was on the phone.

Danbo!

CramCycle wrote: »

I hate to ask but surely locking it would be just as quick?

I do the same on a long spin, wouldn't have a lock with me. I'd only leave it unlocked in quieter areas, enniskerry etc, but I'd still loosen the QR just in case.