Seattle Forrest

Bingo!

Stolen bikes don't go for retail, right? I can't believe a whole team of people got together to steal a bike. Are they each going to make $20 for their efforts? I'm assume the video doesn't show the part where they take it somewhere and turn it into cash.

... and I always thought I was being paranoid insisting on locking my bike to something metal!

The night I got my road bike, a drunk lost control of his car, on the road I had just been riding on. He hit a tree. Totaled the car, killed the driver, and took some bark off the tree. Two of the people I went to high school with died, drunk, when the driver lost control and hit at tree at 70 mph. I hope you don't blame me for this, but it's as sad to know these thugs cut a tree down just to steal a bike, as it is to know somebody's bike got stolen. Even if it's just a sidewalk tree.

longbeachgary

What?

AdamDZ

Good find. I'd be curious to know if they nab this mofo.

Koa C.

also, i don't know if he did it on purpose or not but it was lucky that he chopped it so the tree fell into the sidewalk and not onto the parked cars. I think this guy has a future on that ax men show....though i'm sure he was winded after that seeing the great shape he was in.

colleen c

This is getting more weird. According to the article, the bike was not the target but the tree was the target and the bike just happen to be locked to that tree. The tree got cut in disregard the fact that the bike will be easy picking for a bike theif. On top of that, it got lifted off the trunk in the end and rode then left behind. I still see at least two criminal mischief here. What is this world coming to?

Doohickie

Actually, I think "wut?" would have been more appropriate for that.

GeoBigJon

How ******** are people, that is sickening.

exile

"Yeah officer, I was jus chill-axin on the stoop wif my homies when cisco showed up wit an axe."

"We wuz like, whuteva, my boyz kinda bugged like dat ya' know".

"He starts choppin down d' tree an we wuz like, yo' sun, gonna getcha dat ride".

"Cisco wuz like", "No my friends. I am making a statement in response to the book "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" that I just finished reading. The metaphorical content as well as socio-economic themes really tugged at the "proverbial heart-strings" so to speak. The issues regarding education, social class, family life, and exploitation as well as the overall "man vs. environment" were succinctly written if not marvelously thought provoking. An enjoyable bedfellow I most heartily recommend."

"So we wuz like, true dat and skidaddaled."

gbiker

LMAO. They just got confused. Somebody said to Cisco, "Mind if I axe you sumtin?" And he thought he said, "Why don't you axe sumtin?"

Greenpeace can't be happy about this -- Ginkgo biloba trees are supposed to reduce pollution...

Seattle Forrest

You mean "wut."

Trees are basically eternal, compared to human life times. It's sad to see a video of a bunch of people cutting one down for the hell of it.

peskypesky

"ridiculous" is not the word i'd use. maybe nauseating or rage-inducing. i'd like to smack all those d-bags in the back of the head with my bike lock.

CB HI

Yeah, it would be cool to watch him chainsaw his leg off.

Grim

When I saw that I figured that they tree was going to be what people got pissed off about to go after the scum not the theft.
Let me guess, the apartment building is full of section 8 and welfare recipents?

Doohickie

Beat ya to it.

gbiker

Most likely. And now their politicians will probably argue that taxpayers need to provide them with bikes too.

yep202

It says in there, neighborhood men can be seen seen trying to stop the ax wielder from downing the tree. That is a lie it doesnt take a a very smart person to know they were "not" trying to stop a thug with an axe. That is party to a crime. I bet the people who were so called "trying to stop the guy from choping down the tree" called the cops. stupid people. Keep watching the video and it will be come clear as you can see.