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It is not that complicated, a few friends and relatives living in the Netherlands told me the 3 mai reasons: - you want to go somewhere and you don't have your
by AdrianB1 4y ago
It is not that complicated, a few friends and relatives living in the Netherlands told me the 3 mai reasons:
- you want to go somewhere and you don't have your bike. You borrow one, but when you get near the destination and you don't want to risk a theft charge, you dump it in the canal, the water is removing fingerprints and DNA
- you have an old bike that does not work anymore. It is cheaper to throw it in the canal
- you find a bicycle poorly parked (or dumped) on a sidewalk or some place that is inconvenient, you throw it out of the way ... in the canal
There may be other reasons in other places, but these are in that part of the world where they live.
- pmontra 4y agoI understand #2 and #3 but #1? Who checks if you own the bike you are riding and why? Or borrow == steal?
- AdrianB1 4y agoIt was a polite way to say it was technically stealing. Sometimes people return these bikes, but if the destination is a bar, it includes some alcohol and in the morning you don't remember how the night started, it is a good precaution to get rid of the bike and anything linking it to you. I don't support any such behavior and the guys that I know don't do it, just reporting it.
- hiptobecubic 4y ago"technically stealing" here means "actually just regular old stealing."