B.C. to D.C.
Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: between the Popeye's, the liquor store, the funeral home, and the strip club
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Bikes: 1992 Miyata Nine 14; 1971 Raleigh Super Course fixie conversion; 2006 Jamis Nova (853 version); 2001 Diamondback Topanga (SS conversion); 1956 Rudge Sports; 1971 Raleigh Competition (processing); 199? Schwinn World Sport (processing)
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well biked.
I don't really enjoy being condescended to about the typology of morals. Personally, you are doing nothing to disabuse me of the impression that you are being inflexible and a-priori on these matters.
To recap the whole 20-second incident: there was circumstantial evidence (mostly just impressions) to suggest that this guy may have been a thief, or a dude about to put a shiny bike on the side of the road into his van. However, it was equally plausible that the guy was really the owner. As I said, the whole interaction was odd. If I see the dude again, I will ask him. Just because he drives an [early]-model van and doesn't want several hundred dollars in parts does not necessarily make him a thief, just silly, or rich (all three are often found together, however).
I basically wanted to know what I should do to ethically cover my ass IN CASE the bike was stolen, and how I should go about doing it.
on asking the guy at the house: working class neighborhoods in dc are all row housing--putting aside mr. robot's point about dumping at a distance (which this might have been), I would have to knock up and down the block. not something I want to do.
Regardless, thanks to well biked and peripatetic and the rest of y'all. The discussion's helped to sharpen my point of view on several issues. The war between use-value and exchange-value continues. And [ethical] scavenging ROCKS.