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You are wrong, because it happened in Britain (about seven miles from where I live, in fact). Witney is a medium-sized town near Oxford. Oxford is the absolute
by Doctor_Fegg 3y ago
You are wrong, because it happened in Britain (about seven miles from where I live, in fact).
Witney is a medium-sized town near Oxford. Oxford is the absolute bike theft capital of Britain. I once emerged from a pub to find someone had bolt-cuttered my lock and was walking up the street with my bike. (I got it back.) You can put a £1.50 consumable bike light on the back of your bike in Oxford and someone will nick it.
Thames Valley Police don't give a crap about bike theft, but to be fair, they don't really give a crap about anything IME. I don't think they're singling out cyclists, they're just institutionally incompetent.
- Ichthypresbyter 3y agoThe rumour was that there was an organised gang who would load a van up with stolen bikes in Oxford, drive to Cambridge, sell them to students there, then steal a load of bikes in Cambridge to sell in Oxford. At one point IIRC Peas Hill in Cambridge, a short street near the market square with a lot of bike racks, had more crimes recorded than any other street in the country- almost all bike thefts.