touché!!

This guy i used to work with leaned his bike (mellow yellow cinelli olympic pista!!!) and went into 555 cal. As he came out to see a bummy carting away his ****, he just laughed when he realised that the dude had no idea what was about to ensue. He just walked down the hill and watched him first try to backpedal, then try to put his foot down. We all know what happens when you put your foot down on a fixie...the crank turned and put him over the bars. To add insult to injury, he then "layed hands on him" about the lips and jaw (POW!!!).

I thought I'd never hear about Norrkoping again. The town with the Museum of Work and the Paint Museum as major tourist attractions! :roflmao: I spent a very, very, dull couple of days there.

this is ****ed up... it's like undercover cops who pose as prostitutes to bust jons.... maybe the person who you kill with your deadly bicycle scenario has never stolen a bike, and never thought about it, until that day when they see a bike just sitting there unlocked..
if you want to **** with real bike thieves, get your nice bike, lock it up at the metro station with a ****ty weak cord/padlock... then hit em over the back of the head with a big leg of ham..

Can I use my U-lock instead?

I betcha they won't want to steal a bike again.

Also in law school. Thing about your scenario is, a good prosecutor might be able to dredge up this posting on BF and identify the OP as the owner of the bike.

I would say a transcript of this thread would constitute proof of intent. :D

Ham: the new tazer.

Catch him and use that to keep his hands on the handlebar, then take the handlebar off, mount another one on, and look for the next scum

[Star Trek(ish)]
"I've set my phaser from stun, to HAM"
[/Star Trek(ish)]

can't eat the ulock afterwards to destroy the evidence.

I wonder about the legal ramifications of building a stungun into the bicycle seat...I already know what the physical results would be....heh.

if you have one node on the seat and one on the handlebar then it would make the arc right through the body, just have a switch hidden under the seat. Though they may be a little hesitant if you have a car battery duct-taped to your seat-tube then the thief may be a little more hesitant to steal it *revelation* ALL WE NEed to do is attach car batteries with wires connecting to random parts of the bike and bike theives will think it's a great conspiracy and all go live in a monastary and repent on their scummy ways.

When I first started doing courier work, I had my bike, a crappy GT Tequesta, stolen from right outside the office. Luckily somebody saw it hapen and told me which way to give chase. About 100 yards away in sunny Hoxton Square I found my bike, now in 2 pieces (it had been rewelded pretty badly a couple of weeks before) and a bike thief with a bad head wound. Oh how I laughed.

Uh, oh.

Double uh, oh.

Can't shake a stick around here without hitting a law stu on a fixie.

You won't find anyone who agrees with you more than I. Though I'm pretty sure most of my fellow law students could care less about bikes and aspire to drive Beamers and Mercedeses.

[QUOTE=Wordbiker]I wonder about the legal ramifications of building a stungun into the bicycle seat...I already know what the physical results would be....heh
I remember this German guy at CMWC 99 in Zurich....I think he is the Doom Drop messenger bag guy. Anyhoo he had these really detailed technical plans for 2 different security devices. The first was a can of pepper spray built into the handlebars...it would spray out into your face if the safety was not put in prior to riding. The second was a little more extreme with a shotgun shell mounted in the seatpost. It kind of worked like a suspension seatpost....the seat would compress the post when ridden discharging the round if the safety was not engaged. Pretty crazy s#!t. Just take your other bike to the bar....had a few pints....forgot to engage the safety!

I know. Been there. Passed the bar back in the early nineties.

Here is the best criminal law advice a professor ever gave me:

Make sure your client understands that dressing up for court does not mean wearing the "good" Def Leppard t-shirt ... the one with sleeves.

i just wait behind the tree then BLAST him or anyone that even touches my bike.

Ham? Tasers? Pepper Spray? Shotgun shells? $%&* that. My bike is surrounded by a horde of 462 stealth ninjas at all times.

Thanks di*k. Maybe you shouldn't be tourist, and then you wouldn't have that problem.

Karstens? That you?

At which point a decent defense attorny would respond with a demand of proof that the plaintiff's bike was identical to this one or at least similar enough for a "mistaken identity".

And there was brakes, the way a fixed gear operate is a brake....it was merely a case of a thief stealing a machine he was unqualified to operate. Negligence from locking it up is no excuse.

Or for more fun just zip-tie it to a post and watch a guy steal it with swiss army knife scissors...that would get rid of the "but you didn't lock it" blame shifting tactic.