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Sorry to kill your Robin Hood romanticism, but odds are that it was people who are routine bike thiefs and flip them in LA, making very handsome money, rather t
by GuiA 11y ago
Sorry to kill your Robin Hood romanticism, but odds are that it was people who are routine bike thiefs and flip them in LA, making very handsome money, rather than some poor fellow whose been shortchanged by life and left on the sidelines. Those people are mostly harmless and passed out on the street, rambling incoherently at worst, and at best asking for money.
Those are the kind of people stealing bikes, and they deserve judicial action:
https://www.reddit.com/r/sanfrancisco/comments/4fcy9y/sparks_fly_as_bike_thief_grinds_through_lock/ https://www.reddit.com/r/sanfrancisco/comments/4fcy9y/sparks...
- wpietri 11y agoYes, please condescendingly tell me more about the neighborhood I've lived in for 15 years. Because I'm sure you know way more about it than I do. Christ, I have personally chased down a bike thief to help a friend get her bike back. I saw the guy up close. I saw the scabby meth face. I felt the addict skinniness under my hand when I grabbed him. Yes, I know that professional bike thief rings also operate in my city. But they aren't the ones stealing 8-year-old bikes out of back yards, bikes that were worth $500 new. They are stealing things with resale value.