Brazen Bristol Bike Burglar

[Pro Tour Punditry]

He's a weedy little junkie. Pull a screwdriver on me and I'd stick it up his bum and parade him up the street like a lollipop.

 

[Milkfloat]

If it were my bike, I would much rather the bystander filmed the guy stealing the bike than missing out on that and dialling 999. 999 is going to get no response and the thief would be well away. At best I would be left with a crime number.

With the video, this how now been viewed by 50k plus people and I would wager 250k within a week. Far more chance of getting as someone is bound to recognise him and the police would have to do something about it for PR reasons.

As for those saying they would stop him - how exactly are you going to wrestle a potentially innocent man to the ground, then what?

Chapeau to the guy, quick thinking.

 

[Drago]

And if they catch Johnny Scumbag the odds of him still having the bike are close to zero, so it does nothing to help the victim.

Challenging the bloke might well have kept the bike with its owner, whereas catching the villain a week later almost certainly does not.

 

[Milkfloat]

And if they catch Johnny Scumbag the odds of him still having the bike are close to zero, so it does nothing to help the victim.

Challenging the bloke might well have kept the bike with its owner, whereas catching the villain a week later almost certainly does not.

Conviction though?

 

[ufkacbln]

Brazen Bull Buggering Barsteward of Bath and wells Burgles Big Bike By Bristol Byway Bringing Back Boltcroppers By Bus.

Off topic...I know of a joke about a Beligerent Bear from Billings

But I posted in in the jokes thread

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

[QUOTE 4764115, member: 45"]Yes, I know. I thought it would be obvious that I was going for all the B's.[/QUOTE]
We need something stronger than Brazen Bristol Bike Botherer then.

 

[classic33]

Conviction though?

Unlikely. Even if caught with the bike.

 

[raleighnut]

Conviction though?

Slap on the wrist more like, until bike theft is dealt with more robustly the scumbags will not be deterred.

 

[steveindenmark]

Why don't people remember that other use of what they use to filmm such incidents, the phone. And call the police, instead of standing there using a camera.

Police are asking for help, the parents who bought the bike have said it wasn't the property of the person in the picture.

What more is needed?

I saw that almost immediately and cancelled my post.

 

[jonny jeez]

Why don't people remember that other use of what they use to filmm such incidents, the phone. And call the police, instead of standing there using a camera.

Police are asking for help, the parents who bought the bike have said it wasn't the property of the person in the picture.

What more is needed?

Because they know that collecting evidence and using media is far more likely to get any form of result than calling the disinterested plod.

The police are marginalising themselves more and more each day.

 

[Cycleops]

[QUOTE 4764115, member: 45"]Yes, I know. I thought it would be obvious that I was going for all the B's.[/QUOTE]
I think its called alliteration.

 

[Gert Lush]

You think the bloke recording it would have tried to get a better look at the thief's face..

 

[steveindenmark]

http://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/poli...-car-in-hull/story-30268719-detail/story.html

Police tell taxi driver to release boy he caught throwing rock at his car in Hull
Even when you do intervene ... !

I would have refused to let him go and told them I was going to keep hold of him until a policeman arrived. You are entitled to do that and the person at the police station should have known that. Or at least have asked someone else before giving the advice to let him go.

 

[craigwend]

I would have refused to let him go and told them I was going to keep hold of him until a policeman arrived. You are entitled to do that and the person at the police station should have known that. Or at least have asked someone else before giving the advice to let him go.

The Hull Daily Fail has helpfully followed up with .. http://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/how-...-and-legally/story-30236988-detail/story.html

 

[mjr]

It happened in a minute, the bystander who recorded the video likely new the police would not respond quickly to the theft of a bicycle.

If it were my bike, I would much rather the bystander filmed the guy stealing the bike than missing out on that and dialling 999. 999 is going to get no response and the thief would be well away. At best I would be left with a crime number.

Both times I've seen someone apparently nicking a bike in the town centre and called the police, they have attended quickly enough to detain the possible thief (I can't figure out how to see the call length on my mobile phone's log, but I'm pretty sure it's within 3 minutes). I kept them in view from a safe distance until the police arrived. King's Lynn has officers on foot in the centre and on bike in the town - I'm surprised if Bristol doesn't. I suspect they're mainly intended to deal with public order, shoplifting and theft-from-parked-car offences.

I know they're not interested in everything (they were less than keen to come get an illegal mini-moto out in the villages), but what police would turn down a fairly easy catch of a bike thief in the act?