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So I cycle into the city centre today. Park my bike up on a busy street ... lots of foot traffic etc. I come back approx 3 hours later and find my bike has been unlocked, with the lock hanging by itself, and the bike has been turned around.
Errrr?
Now it's a relatively expensive bike, so it has a heavy duty lock, and I'm really anal about making sure the bike is locked properly when I leave it, especially if it's alongside another bike (as it was).
I was standing there dumbfounded like an idiot.
1. Simple - I didn't lock the bike, and someone had to pick it up when it fell over or something, hence the fact it got turned around. But I'm so sure I did ... precisely because it was next to another bike and always make sure they aren't tangled up.
2. The dude with the bike parked on the same rack had the exact same lock (somehow), and his key fitted my lock (somehow), and I had accidentally tethered my bike to his (somehow), and he unlocked my bike and left the locking hanging ... oh and something about alternate universes.
3. A new brand of troll petty criminal ... their goal is to confuse their victims rather than steal from them ... they hide in the shadows, in fits of giggles as the hapless dumbfounded victim (me) questions reality.
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Reminds me of an ex flatmate of mine. He worked up at Barclays in London and commuted in on the train every day. He had more money than he knew how to spend, and worked so many hours, he didn't have time to spend it. He'd buy stupid things all the time: £300 ties, expensive braces which he never wore, every useless gadget going etc. So on a whim he decides to buy a bike and cycle from Liverpool Street Station in London, to Barclays HQ. He was not a cyclist, but he decides to buy the most expensive bike in the shop, a £5000 professional road bike. The very first day he use it, he parks it in the underground car park at Barclays, and comes back to find the bike gone, and his lock dangling on a nearby railing ... not happy just stealing his brand new £5K bike, they had to troll him as well.
In the 10 years I knew him, I never seen him on another bike. 1 bike, 1 day, £5K. So baller.
Errrr?
Now it's a relatively expensive bike, so it has a heavy duty lock, and I'm really anal about making sure the bike is locked properly when I leave it, especially if it's alongside another bike (as it was).
I was standing there dumbfounded like an idiot.
1. Simple - I didn't lock the bike, and someone had to pick it up when it fell over or something, hence the fact it got turned around. But I'm so sure I did ... precisely because it was next to another bike and always make sure they aren't tangled up.
2. The dude with the bike parked on the same rack had the exact same lock (somehow), and his key fitted my lock (somehow), and I had accidentally tethered my bike to his (somehow), and he unlocked my bike and left the locking hanging ... oh and something about alternate universes.
3. A new brand of troll petty criminal ... their goal is to confuse their victims rather than steal from them ... they hide in the shadows, in fits of giggles as the hapless dumbfounded victim (me) questions reality.
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Reminds me of an ex flatmate of mine. He worked up at Barclays in London and commuted in on the train every day. He had more money than he knew how to spend, and worked so many hours, he didn't have time to spend it. He'd buy stupid things all the time: £300 ties, expensive braces which he never wore, every useless gadget going etc. So on a whim he decides to buy a bike and cycle from Liverpool Street Station in London, to Barclays HQ. He was not a cyclist, but he decides to buy the most expensive bike in the shop, a £5000 professional road bike. The very first day he use it, he parks it in the underground car park at Barclays, and comes back to find the bike gone, and his lock dangling on a nearby railing ... not happy just stealing his brand new £5K bike, they had to troll him as well.
In the 10 years I knew him, I never seen him on another bike. 1 bike, 1 day, £5K. So baller.
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