Bike Thief PHOTO: stealing Red Specialized @ 165 N Canal 9/23

Forwarded from a friend. She wasn't able to do enough to stop him, but did get a photo of a man stealing a bike across from 165 N Canal.

Apparently, he took the tire off the bike that was locked via ulock to a pole, put a new one on and rode away.

Stray Observations:

  1. Pass this on to people you know who had a bike (or tire) stolen yesterday. Perhaps it will bring them joy, anger, closure or all of the above.
  2. PLEASE LOCK YOUR BIKE BETTER. Holy crap people. Resource: http://www.activetrans.org/commute/tricks-tips/parking
  3. He obviously stole a front tire from another bike and then helped himself which totally settles the "what the hell do these people do with one tire"question I've always had.
  4. Memorize this face and if you see him walking around with a bike part, call the police and start yelling at him so people will start looking. (Insert warning about being REALLY SURE THIS IS THE SAME PERSON - the missing front teeth and glasses are helpful.)
  5. Please don't do the chainlink troll thing and yell about my friend not chaining herself to the bike and pulling a batman on this crook. You weren't there, you don't know my friend and until you earn some sincere bike thief vigilante street cred - shut up.

Sorry if # 4 was ugly or presumptuous. I'm just tired of the non constructive discussions and honestly don't have time for it.

BOO BIKE THIEVES!

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Permalink Reply by Rebecca on September 25, 2013 at 4:34am

Love the disclaimer by wikipedia...

"This article is about the natural instinct of an organism. For the video game based on the TV series, see The Walking Dead: Survival Instinct"

Tom Dworzanski said:

People don't really decide to "go down." Though I guess anything's possible.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-preservation

Permalink Reply by Kevin C Dormant on September 25, 2013 at 4:48am

[insert Nazi analogy here]

Permalink Reply by Mr. Ray Joe Hall on September 25, 2013 at 4:50am

Gun restrictions don't go very far when you can buy one with a toothless background check anywhere outside city limits. You'll maybe get six months in jail if you do get caught with one.  Something like 80% of the gun violence in Chicago is drug related.  And 99% of is poverty related.  CCW isn't going to fix ANY of that.  

A white guy living in Roscoe Village is safer from violent crime than in such gun-friendly places like St. Louis, Atlanta, or Memphis.   CCW will, however, bring a lot more of this to Chicago. Please go take your attitude to Somalia if you want to live in a city like that.

Permalink Reply by Rebecca on September 25, 2013 at 4:51am

I grew up in Texas. lots of guns......I personally knew several people that died due to gun violence/mistakes. If I was a teenager in the South Side, this list would probably be a lot longer.

RIP friends

  • Thomas, 13 - shot in the head while playing hide and go seek with his 4 year old brother. He was consistently 5th chair in the trumpet section of our band.
  • Dustin, 16 - shot in the face by his girlfriend who was joking about the gun not being loaded. He was on the pep squad.
  • Jeremy, 18 - shot in a road rage incident on highway 75 when he and another car kept cutting each other off, would have gone to the funeral - but it was on 9/11. He was awesome at technical theater.

I think I'd totally be for guns if their weren't so many undeserving, unintended, innocent victims out there.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/04/11/guns-child-dea...

Permalink Reply by Doug Haynes on September 25, 2013 at 4:59am

Well do you know much about them?

Do you know about the crazy short life expectancy for game members?  It's a bunch of kids who expect to die young violent deaths; they give zero fucks about if the person they want to shoot is armed because they are going to shoot first.

Like the other stuff if you don't know much about it you have an uninformed opinion.  Do you want people who have no idea about biking making decisions?  Same applies here.

Tom Dworzanski said:

Lol more personal attacks.


notoriousDUG said:

So I will just take that as an admission you know very little about gangs and the culture of violence that surrounds them.


Tom Dworzanski said:

Respectfully disagree.

Davo said:

I seriously doubt that the fellows who shot up that park would have thought twice if they thought others would have guns in that situation.

Permalink Reply by Mr. Ray Joe Hall on September 25, 2013 at 4:59am

Every discussion on Facebook is about gun control.

h' 1.0 said:

When people make these head-scratching "only on chainlink" statements all I can figure out is that maybe their only other exposure to the internet is gmail and Facebook.

Michelle said:

Haha. I think any statement on any site on the entire internet is capable of becoming a gun control debate. 


Rebecca said:

Only on the Chainlink does a friendly warning about proper bike locking and a bike theft turn into a debate about gun control.

Sad thing is we could probably make more progress than Congress.

Permalink Reply by Doug Haynes on September 25, 2013 at 5:00am

If this is true why do so many people shoot at cops and then end up dead?

Tom Dworzanski said:

People don't really decide to "go down." Though I guess anything's possible.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-preservation

notoriousDUG said:

But what about when the outnumbered bad decides to go down shooting and takes a whole bunch of people with them?

Permalink Reply by Rebecca on September 25, 2013 at 5:02am

Rest assured, I'm all OVER THE INTERNET! I just marvel at the abilities of chainlink forums to get so off topic so fast. ie. a thread about celebrating a clarified bike law turns into a debate about ebikes (that had limited to no relevancy in the law). There is a lot of discussion hijacking and for some reason I thought the cycling community was smarter and more respectful than that.

h' 1.0 said:

When people make these head-scratching "only on chainlink" statements all I can figure out is that maybe their only other exposure to the internet is gmail and Facebook.

Michelle said:

Haha. I think any statement on any site on the entire internet is capable of becoming a gun control debate. 


Rebecca said:

Only on the Chainlink does a friendly warning about proper bike locking and a bike theft turn into a debate about gun control.

Sad thing is we could probably make more progress than Congress.

Permalink Reply by XndeX on September 25, 2013 at 5:09am

Ladies and gentlemen we are definitely having a good discussion.
However we have went so far off topic that it can now be seen from outer space!
(No seriously it can be seen! ) All joking aside though, this bike thief is very brazen and does not care.
Never mind the underlying issue that 2 bikes were not properly locked up.
Just be on the lookout for this thief and approach with extreme caution!

Permalink Reply by Tom Dworzanski on September 25, 2013 at 5:12am

I'm sorry about your #WhiteGuyProblems.

 

Just so you know, Somolia isn't really a place with many guns.

 

Mr. Ray Joe Hall said:

A white guy living in Roscoe Village is safer from violent crime than in such gun-friendly places like St. Louis, Atlanta, or Memphis. CCW will, however, bring a lot more of this to Chicago. Please go take your attitude to Somalia if you want to live in a city like that.

 

Permalink Reply by Tom Dworzanski on September 25, 2013 at 5:22am

I'd genuinely love to learn more. Please tell us about your experiences in the gang world.

notoriousDUG said:

Do you know about the crazy short life expectancy for game members?  It's a bunch of kids who expect to die young violent deaths; they give zero fucks about if the person they want to shoot is armed because they are going to shoot first.

Permalink Reply by Tom Dworzanski on September 25, 2013 at 5:24am

What % of police encounters end with bullets being fired at the cops? Please provide a source.

(I'm not trying to minimize anyone shooting at cops in any way, it's a really f-ed up thing that happens sometimes.)



notoriousDUG said:

If this is true why do so many people shoot at cops and then end up dead?

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