Sorry, lads, the coppers are too busy persecuting people who make critical comments about the government.
Don't forget the landed gentry's property rights which are sacrosanct. Us peasants owning actual stuff on the other hand can fuck right off.
Oh hell no. Decriminalize drugs, homelessness, or petty theft from major chain stores with insurance for that crap.
Now, bicycle theft? That strains my dedication to opposing state violence.
So smashing car windows is getting decriminalized too right? RIGHT?
Optional registration with a bright visible yellow sticker in Belgium https://mybike.belgium.be/
Does it work? Who knows but at least signals to anybody who might want to still your bike that you went the extra mile to prevent theft and you will consequently be annoying enough to signal it at stolen wherever you can. Sure it can be removed somehow (Dremel I guess) but it's extra work that will look very suspicious on a "normal" sale.
FWIW it's also free, you just request the sticker on their Website and receive it by mail few days after.
What the fuck. Horse thieves used to get the death penalty.
rich people had horses, poor people have bikes.
that explains it
Plug for bikeindex.org, which I have heard used to actually recover stolen bikes in some cases.
"The more time our officers spend reviewing CCTV footage for these offences, the less time they have available for patrolling railway stations and trains, investigating crimes which cause the most harm and providing a visible presence across the network.
That argument is so dumb. Say the bike owner was away for ten hours, from 6:00 to 16:00 o'clock.
What you need to do is called 'bisection'. At 6:00, the bike is there. At 16:00, it isn't. You take half if that interval, which is 11:00. You look at 11:00, whether its there. If yes, you look at the mid between 11:00 and 16:00. If no, between 6:00 and 11:00.
Then hours are 600 Minutes, which means that after ten halvings you are down to the exact minute where the theft happened, and can watch the thief.
It's the same method as finding a page number in a large book.
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