according to the news report: "cunning crooks"??? that's not the adjective i'd use.

cutting down a tree to steal a bike... that's gotta invoke some seriously bad karma. at least it's comforting to think that, since they probably won't be brought to justice in this life.

if it was locked to a tree, it was probably a cheap cable lock. a few goods whacks with the axe would have destroyed the lock and scratched the tree. doing it the way they did, they'd still have to deal with the lock. ****ing idiots.

this supports the argument for forced sterilization... and kills the belief that no one would chop down a tree to steal a bike.