On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 01:05:52PM +0100, Tom Anderson wrote:
On Fri, 14 Aug 2009, David Cantrell wrote:
A lock is sufficient, I am sure, if the bike is left in a busy area
where a naughty fellow would be seen cutting the lock off. It is not
going to be sufficient at 4am on a Monday night on a residential street.
Presumably, you speak from experience, or have statistics which make you
think this? It's just that i've left my bike overnight in all sorts of
places, quiet and otherwise, and it hasn't been nicked, and it sounds to
me a little bit like you might be talking out of your arse.

Number of cars stolen from me and my neighbours while parked in the
street outside in the last ten years: 0

Number of bikes stolen from my neighbours while locked up in garden
sheds and in back gardens in the last ten years: more than 0

It's reasonable to suppose that the number that would be stolen if left
out on the street would be even more than 0.

Given that I only care about where I live, yes, I *do* have statistics
to back up my argument thankyouverymuch. Admittedly not a particularly
large sample set, but it's bigger than the sample set that *you* have
for *my* street, so I obviously know more of what I talk about than you
do.

Unless you're one of my neighbours using a pseudonym to post here.

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David Cantrell | Bourgeois reactionary pig

Graecum est; non legitur