Originally Posted by
KonAaron Snake
You're clearly just looking for a confrontation and it's not worth my time.
My contour does save/transmit video to my iphone. I would guess others have similar features, including, possibly, the cloud. Nothing is 100%, it's risk mitigation. The person now has to break your camera and storage device...it's another step and potential discouragement. Is it 100% nope.
Please don't tell me what I should or shouldn't have, or make assumptions about my respect. You don't know how I feel about any socio-economic issues and I'm not interested in discussing those things with you. I lived in those areas when i was younger. I know what it's like, both as a resident and as a visitor. I still bike through those areas. The vast majority of people are just looking to get home and feed themselves/their families. That said, our economic reality has led to a lot of disenfranchised, pissed off people with little to lose. A woman is more likely to be a target. There are ways to reduce risk...and the risk is real. If you chose to believe otherwise for you and your family...have at it.
Bollox. Link me the statistics of women jacked off bicycles at intersections and taken off to have specific assuaults perpetrated that have something to do with them being female. I live and ride daily in perhaps the most female dense cycling environoment in the entire US. 50% of the cyclists on the road are women unlike many places where women are 2% or 3% of cyclists. Many make a point of highligithing their femaleness. Many don't. A LOT are riding through the North Portland area which is in the process of gentrification. The environs are very sketchy but the streets and intersections are more or less neutral territory. No one is going to run up to a cyclist and jack their bike. It's just not going to happen. But what I can guarantee is that if that were to happen, the cyclists gender would be secondary and it would be the perceived worth of the bike. A bike thief and a ****** are two different species of dirtbag and ******* do not pick off commuter cyclists as a rule. Oh... btw. there is a MUCH better chance of being jacked in the better parts of town! Check the crime stats. Property crime in the hood is always low and the kinds of violent crime that prevail will be the kind where both perp and victim are not the most savory kinds of individuals. The better areas have much lower rates of violent crime but have lots of jackings, muggings and other kinds of crimes of opportunity. The o.p. should be more worried about criminal elements lurking in the posh areas looking to pick off soft, well off people with stuff worth stealing. In the sketchy areas no one gives a crap. Out in the street you are invisible. I know of what I speak.
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