Walking around Lakeview with an angle grinder

On Friday afternoon someone cut through my U-lock with an angle grinder!

In the middle of the afternoon!!  

 

Right after I got done warning someone about locking up with a cable lock.  

 

BYE BYE bike #2 to Chicago bike thieves. Great way to start the summer.

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Permalink Reply by Duppie on May 7, 2010 at 1:35pm
A little OT, but it seems that this victim of bike theft has confused feelings about the perpetrator. A variation on the Stockholm syndrome, maybe?

BTW, thanks to whoever had the brilliant idea to put an RSS feed of Craigslist missed bike connections on Chainlink's homepage. It make for amusing reading
Permalink Reply by Vilda on May 7, 2010 at 3:11pm
Good call! :-)

Kevin Conway said:
I printed out the most recent 90 entries.

Gabe said:
I'm in! ;-) (coffee!! ;-) P.s. if someone with a printer wants to print out the stolen bikes registry (as many pages as possible0 that would likely be a helpful tool.
Permalink Reply by mike w. on May 7, 2010 at 3:24pm
WTF??

Duppie said:
A little OT, but it seems that this victim of bike theft has confused feelings about the perpetrator. A variation on the Stockholm syndrome, maybe?

BTW, thanks to whoever had the brilliant idea to put an RSS feed of Craigslist missed bike connections on Chainlink's homepage. It make for amusing reading
Permalink Reply by A.K.A Paul on May 7, 2010 at 3:41pm
Duppie said:
A little OT, but it seems that this victim of bike theft has confused feelings about the perpetrator. A variation on the Stockholm syndrome, maybe?

BTW, thanks to whoever had the brilliant idea to put an RSS feed of Craigslist missed bike connections on Chainlink's homepage. It make for amusing reading

Mean while back at the ranch.... bike theif dude shows up for his date with the woman and gets the ever living crap beat out of him by her ultimate fighter boyfriend.

Im just guessing...
Permalink Reply by Doug Haynes on May 8, 2010 at 6:11am
Shit.

I got way to drunk last night and slept through the sting operation.

I suck.
Permalink Reply by Vondo on May 8, 2010 at 9:27am
Thieves suck. I think my new resolution will be that if I ever see someone cutting a lock I will at least poke my head into whatever building the bike is locked in front of and yell that someone is getting their ride jacked. Will it chase away the thief? maybe or maybe not but hey, better than nothing.
Permalink Reply by Dr. Doom on May 8, 2010 at 10:35am
A good turn out and a good ride. We didn't see anything recoverable, but I think if we keep at this with semi-regular rides here and to other hot spots we may make some headway.

The one thing this taught me is that people HAVE to register their stolen stuff with the Stolen Bike Registry. Among other reasons to do so, it's super easy to do a keyword search on that site with a phone browser, so if someone happens to be poking around flea markets looking for jacked bikes the odds of your stuff getting found this way go from infinitesimal to slightly less infinitesimal if your bike is registered there. It's a real shame whoever had that sweet Cannondale didn't register it!
Permalink Reply by Wesley Dolezal on May 8, 2010 at 11:43am
I never want to ride down that part of Cermak, or Ashland again...but it was a good ride. I'm definitely up for doing this more frequently. Seeing that Cannondale at the flea market was kind of depressing
Permalink Reply by wig [ isaac ] on May 9, 2010 at 1:29am
Another with an angle grinder! sorry....

plus the photo you attached shows a person with a nice steady hand. there is no chatter in the cut. they most likely had a outfit that allowed people to notice but but never thought twice about what was going on. LIKE grey or blue uniform with a hi vis safety vest over a matching shirt ..

SORRY TO HEAR ABOUT YOU LOSING YOUR 2ND BIKE..
Permalink Reply by wig [ isaac ] on May 9, 2010 at 1:31am
Permalink Reply by A.K.A Paul on May 9, 2010 at 12:30pm
I apologize if this has been posted already but didnt see it when I did a search...

Here's some interesting insight into why so many bikes get stolen...

Perhaps this is a large part of why it doesnt matter what type of lock you have.

This pisses me off!


ABC's What would you do?

Episode one

Episode two
Permalink Reply by A.K.A Paul on May 9, 2010 at 1:12pm
That and a whole lot of apathy...

I personally feel that this is one of the root causes of the issue and if this is address effectively we would see a difference.

H3N3 said:
I've never seen this, huge thanks for posting.
Sadly it's almost more about white privilege than about bike theft . . .

Not Nathan Fillion (aka Paul) said:
I apologize if this has been posted already but didnt see it when I did a search...

Here's some interesting insight into why so many bikes get stolen...

ABC's What would you do?

Episode one

Episode two

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