GrumpyGregry
Here for rides.
what's a stubby?
Seriously? A small hydaulic jack, so small as to be eff all use for jacking cars up, but tbh v useful in machine shops. Scrotes often fit them with a nut splitter type head rather than a flat pad, all the better to bust things open with. Fits easily in the pocket of a hoodie or in a carrier bag.
In certain parts of the realm being caught in posession of one will result in acharge of 'going equipped to steal' if the plod can be faffed with the paperwork. In our locality they all too often let said scrotes off with a caution/warning.
My BTP contacts advise that a small proportion of fare dodgers on suburban and sub suburban trains hereabouts are found to be 'going equipped', nice day out in the shires breaking and entering, mugging and nicking bikes then back home to the smoke for tea.
As others have said; if there was no market for ripped off bikes the scrotes would rip something else off instead.