Originally Posted by
bmwjoe
Here is a video of a thief stealing my son's locked bike on a busy street in broad daylight.
http://youtu.be/_zi0T8DH0_s
You can see how he does it in several steps so that nobody actually sees him steal the bike. My son had just spent 4 weeks restoring that bike :-(
Ride Safe,
Joe
I can relate to the disappointment that comes from the loss of a child's bike. My son's bike was stolen from the school rack on the last day of 6th Grade. He'd just completed a horrible first year of middle school during which more than one of his teachers declared that he must be suffering from Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) or possibly dyslexia.
The cable lock was still attached/locked to the bike rack, he hadn't even threaded it through the wheel or frame. Lots of tears and self-loathing on his part. I was only coming to grips with his attention challenges and it took a big effort to ignore the reason for the theft and buck-up with a replacement bike for what had been a very nice Novara child's mountain bike.