Originally Posted by
maddog34
a now deceased customer had a habit of screwing up EVERY cable he'd touch, then removing the front brakes from a long list of bikes... one of those bikes had been ?"borrowed"? from yet another customer... he also removed the front der with tin snips, and turned the bike into a single speed(more zip ties!), and locked the front suspension fork with two hose clamps... it WAS a nearly perfect Giant MTB before he got ahold of it.... this ruination happened over about one month, IIRC. He later reported it as "stolen".
Working in a bike shop would be great if it weren't for the customers. Well, most of them don't elicit a groan when they walk through the door, but some definitely do. I've ceased to be amazed by ludicrous displays of incompetence and dishonesty since I started watching "Just Rolled In" and similar stuff on YouTube. At least with bicycles it's mostly just the crazy person that suffers the outcome of their crazy stuff.