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Old 02-27-08 | 07:41 PM
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Old 02-27-08 | 07:57 PM
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Old 02-27-08 | 08:07 PM
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ummm....i know someone who used to ride platforms, no brakes, and that's how he stopped.

he doesn't ride anymore after a car totalled his bike and nearly totalled him.
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Old 02-27-08 | 10:50 PM
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Originally Posted by willypilgrim
seriously.

nothing like time lapse video of a bike that gets stolen.

if you leave your bike unlocked in front of a store, i don't care for how long, it's your own ****ing fault and no one elses that it got stolen.

i've done it once in front of a store with tons of windows for 3 minutes at 6:00am and even then i was horribly paranoid, and the whole time i knew i had no one to blame for it but myself if it did somehow get stolen.
I guess it's OK for me to enter your apartment if the door is not locked. I guess you don't mind me helping myself to the food in your fridge - as I guess that's not locked, either.

After all, you have nobody else to blame but yourself.
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Old 02-27-08 | 10:58 PM
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Originally Posted by wroomwroomoops
I guess it's OK for me to enter your apartment if the door is not locked. I guess you don't mind me helping myself to the food in your fridge - as I guess that's not locked, either.

After all, you have nobody else to blame but yourself.
if you dont lock your front door, you're asking for it. your "why can't everyone be honest people?" attitude doesn't work in this world.
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Old 02-27-08 | 11:43 PM
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if you dont lock your front door, you're asking for it. your "why can't everyone be honest people?" attitude doesn't work in this world.
More like this country, and even more like the particular city you're in. Compton may not be so great. A tight-knit town of 10,000... the odds are a better for sure. You have to realize there's still places even in America that don't necessarily have big city problems.
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Old 02-27-08 | 11:48 PM
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Originally Posted by curiousincident
i once had some really really drunk guy try to walk away with my bike that was sitting 5 feet in front of me. i was gonna let him try to get on it since he was definitely in zombie walk mode but my friend who was with me at the time gave him a firm 'what the **** do you think you're doing?' he kind of looked up at us, then continued on his zombie stumble down the sidewalk.
Similar story:

One afternoon back home in Scotland we were sat in the window seat of a bar as the evening wore on I saw a guy trying to get on a bike and ride it, he kept falling off and taking a piece of paper out of his pocket and unfolding it. He would then read it as if it was the instructions to the bike then put the paper back in his pocket, get on the bike and fall off. This went on for a few minute before he actually manged to turn the cranks a couple of times, he then crossed the street and crashed straight into a parked car!

Laugh? I nearly pissed my pants!
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Old 02-27-08 | 11:54 PM
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However if a bike like that was planted with malicious intent. That might be a different story.
maybe not... although it would be hard to prove whether or not the bike was left out with the intent to injure a would be criminal... it's not like you did anything particular to your bike to make it any more dangerous than you would normally ride it.

that'd make an interesting court case... im sure that you could prove that you know how to handle and operate it... and given that it's your property, its not like anyone else should be riding it without your consent anyway.

buyer (or thief) beware.
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Old 02-27-08 | 11:54 PM
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Originally Posted by andre nickatina
More like this country, and even more like the particular city you're in. Compton may not be so great. A tight-knit town of 10,000... the odds are a better for sure. You have to realize there's still places even in America that don't necessarily have big city problems.
true, you never know what scum is passing through your city though. no matter where i live, i'll feel a lot better knowing my belongings are locked.
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Old 02-28-08 | 12:26 AM
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I know a lot of you guys sympathise with thieves. Sorry, not me.
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Old 02-28-08 | 02:39 AM
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nobody is sympathizing with thieves. just lock your **** up. it would be great if we lived in a world where everyone could trust eachother, but that will never happen.
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Old 02-28-08 | 08:54 AM
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ummm....i know someone who used to ride platforms, no brakes, and that's how he stopped.

he doesn't ride anymore after a car totalled his bike and nearly totalled him.
Wow.. shocking.
 
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Old 02-28-08 | 06:22 PM
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Originally Posted by wroomwroomoops
I know a lot of you guys sympathise with thieves. Sorry, not me.
i don't steal personal property. i also don't set my **** outside and assume no one is going to take it. it's called not being a ****ing idiot, i'm sorry that's consistently so hard to grasp for you. your analogies are god awful. entering a home, locked or unlocked, without consent is completely different from leaving your personal property sitting in front of a store for an indefinite amount of time and expecting it to stay there.

i'm not saying you need to ny noose your bike to a pillar inside your home, but if you can't be bothered to lock you **** up in public, you obviously don't value your belongings very much.
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