KnackeredBike
I do my own stunts
You can't not call 999 when you see a bike being nicked and then complain the police don't prioritise bike thefts.
Bike theft is a crime. If you see it in progress call 999, let them prioritise it.
Annoyed with myself. Saw someone stealing a bike. Didn't do anything
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Bike theft is a crime. If you see it in progress call 999, let them prioritise it.
Drago
Legendary Member
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The county mounties will still turn out, they'll hand the prisoner over to BTP to deal. In the very likely event BTP don't have an officer at the station at that moment they will call the county mounties themselves anyway.
BTP are spread so thin and so rarely actually get to to to anything I don't know why we bother having them. A cushy number if you fancy it.
BTP are spread so thin and so rarely actually get to to to anything I don't know why we bother having them. A cushy number if you fancy it.
classic33
Leg End Member
"Station" at the Interchange manned 24/7.
Drago
Legendary Member
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- Suburban Poshshire
Aye, some are, but most provincial rail stations have no dibble office and can go weeks without seeing a uniform. If Hitler had committed his atrocities at Northampton railway station we'd still be waiting today for someone to turn up and nick him.
KnackeredBike
I do my own stunts
KnackeredBike
I do my own stunts
I thought we were talking about Hitler and Northampton.
Drago
Legendary Member
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- Suburban Poshshire
How about we split the difference, only call the police every second time we see a theft in progress?
HLaB
Marie Attoinette Fan
A month or so ago I was walking to tje supermarket when a bloke passed me going the other way carrying a bike. It was only a minute later I twigged
the reason he was carrying it was there was still a lock through the front wheel.
What reminded me was walking to the same supermarket only to see another bike locked up to a bollard Cameron style. I was pretty amazed to see it still there when I finished my shopping, I hope it was still there when the owner got back
the reason he was carrying it was there was still a lock through the front wheel.What reminded me was walking to the same supermarket only to see another bike locked up to a bollard Cameron style. I was pretty amazed to see it still there when I finished my shopping, I hope it was still there when the owner got back
HLaB
Marie Attoinette Fan
I got back from a night out with a mate years back only to find someone had took bolt crushers to his D'lock. Someone must've chased them off. He couldn't get his bike off the pole though as the lock had seriously been mangled. I worked out if we rotated the frame a few times the lock might break, which it did. Thats an innocent example of blokes manhandling a bike to get it off a pole it was locked to. It won't happen often though
classic33
Leg End Member
Just so we know what lock to avoid, how about naming the make.
"Rotated the frame a few times" & the lock broke.
HLaB
Marie Attoinette Fan
That must have been 10 years ago, I couldn't recall the brand, only it was a DLock. It actually must have been decent it survived for long enough an attack with bolt cutters for some passer by to intervene.
classic33
Leg End Member
No damage to the frame, whilst rotating it?
HLaB
Marie Attoinette Fan
No major damaged but he had it deliberately covered in stuff so a would be thief couldn't see the make.
