Posting this for awareness I guess. I was away for no more than 15 minutes, closer to 10. This guy broke my fairly chunky combination lock in seconds, in broad daylight, on a busy street. Very frustrating, even if I understand why other people didn’t intervene.
Got the video when the person in front of me at the Garda station was there to report they had seen a bike stolen and filmed it. Nice coincidence.
Did the right thing not confronting him in my opinion, these fuckers are scum
And he cycled the wrog way down a one-way street, dear god.
Fuckers. The sad thing about this is even if the Garda did catch them. Fuck all happen s to them
Man I wish you had a pole or something to crack him over the head
Jesus the sheer brazenness of the prick. Literally daylight robbery and not a threat of a guard potentially coming around the corner to worry about.
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Fake Billy’s out again
Imagine growing up and amounting to nothing more than a bike thief. What a disappointment.
I’d love to drop kick him off of it.
Make this behaviour a sport, sheer willpower and speed cunt is going with, he’d rake gold medals as if it’s Olympics.
Scumbag ! really grinds my gears that these f*cktards think they are entitled to someone else’s hard earned property.
Hell probably sell that for 30 quid. Robs 3 or 4 a day id say.
It looks like he just brute forced it using a quick release saddle that I assume he just nicked off another bike. Absolute scrote but that’s kind of impressive tbh.
Need to complete revamp the Irish justice for proper deterrents.
Get caught stealing a bike, sentence is knees and hands broken by sledgehammer
And unfortunately the gards will probably do fuck all.
The bystander effect is mad. If I saw a thief I like to think I’d get a few kicks in but you never know until you’re there I suppose.
Check Facebook marketplace that’s usually where they’ll sell it. What brand bike is it and I’ll have a look
The old hoody under a jumper combo, I actually rocked it in my youth. The cringe.
You can get quite cheap GPS lights nowadays, so if it gets robbed, you can track the fuckers and send the lads around.
*proceeds to cycle into oncoming traffic*
I had my bike stolen in a broad daylight few years ago – i reported it to GARDs and got it back the same day – it turned out that the stealing scumbag was scared off by a passerby and Gards took the bike to the station (lucky me:) Learned my lesson and bought a better lock, another time my saddle and seatpost was stolen from under my nose(bike was chained to a fence in front of my house)..I think a public whipping would be an adequate punishment for stealing bikes or parts..it’s a bloody plague..
Here in Portland, bike theft is rampant (as I believe it is in most major cities). A couple of major theft rings have been broken up in the past few years; they often hide in homeless encampments. Bikes are usually stripped and the components pawned off or sold online. At my daughter’s school, kids came out one day to find every bike gone from the bike racks.
As to locks, none are impervious: thieves here often bring portable angle grinders, and just like yer man above, cut them off in broad daylight.
For myself, I have an old clunker (shopping bike) that I use if I need to lock it up. Sad to lose it, but not catastrophic.
Accidentally reset my own combination lock once that was on my bike. Went to a car garage mechanics that was close and borrowed a small bolt cutter tool. I was afraid it was gonna take ages to cut tru it and everyone would be looking at me and calling guards etc. it took about 1 minute. There was one kid who was looking at me as I walked off and said to him “it’s my bike”. I now use 2 of those steal U locks.
Is the cunt actually making celebratory noises/grunts as he cycles off?
Where the fuck do these people come from?
Did you get it back?
I was about to say why didn’t you run over and try to stop him but you never know what that type of weapon scum like that have, a dirty needle or anything.
Still amazes me how people spend so much on bikes but laugh at the thought of dropping €70100 on a lock you’d need a grinder for.
I take it that’s not you filming?
Why didn’t you intervene
Question, why did you video it? Why not do something about it?
So why were you filming it? I’d be chasing the son of a bitch down!
What’s that monster sounding guy?
Why’d you just let him go
You should’ve gone all John Wick and thrown a half filled water bottle in-between the wires of the front tire.
Why didn’t you brain him with something.
It’s amazing how shit bike locks are.
Just a heads up, there are 24/7 indoor facilities for bikes in town that are free to use, google Bike Parking access at Q-Park The Spire
Surprised many people aren’t aware of these
Should probably try stop him no?
Imagine just standing there watch some junkie steak yer bike🤣
Should have drop kicked the prick! Most
Of those lads would crumble at the first sign of conflict their bodies are already eating themselves from the inside out.
Hopefully he got ran over by a truck or something down the road. Fuckin scumbags deserve every bit of shit coming their way.
Should have went over he would have pissed himself I’d say
Ya stand there and video ya useless clem
This is awful, I’m so sorry this happened.
I do want to give you some advice for the future. This is not to victim blame, but the bike was locked very poorly. What you need to do is get at minimum a good U lock (like a Kryptonite) and a cable. Some people use two U locks but you have to weigh up the practicality.
Then to actually lock the bike, never ever lock it by the top bar like you did, or by any other part of the frame only. The U lock goes around the rim of the back wheel (not just a few spokes) and the frame. Depending on what you’re locking it to, it can also go around the crank of one of the pedals. The idea is to have everything as tight as possible to the bike stand, so a thief can’t easily get leverage. The cable goes around the frame, rim of the front wheel, and bike stand and is attached to the U lock. Again, the idea is to keep everything as tight as possible so a thief can’t yank and twist the bike and attempt the break the lock that way. It also protects the bike from falling.
The purpose of all this is not to 100% protect your bike from every thief. Nothing can do that. But this will protect your bike from opportunistic thieves and here’s the thing: if your bike is locked like this and other bikes around it are poorly attached to the stand, _a thief will steal another bike instead of yours_. They want the easiest mark.
Serial offenders should be fitted with gps tags like in the US.
Only way to stop this shit.
How did he get the chain off?
What amazes me is that people see this and do nothing other than take out their phones and film.
Do something people. Shout at him for example.
It’s crap like this, which is why I stopped cycling. If they couldn’t get your bike, they would have wrecked it.
I wonder where he’d go with it now that, that bike yard isn’t across from cineworld anymore
Did you really stand there and record him breaking your lock and stealing it? I don’t know the full story but surely you could of prevented that by screaming over at the cunt.
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Posting this for awareness I guess. I was away for no more than 15 minutes, closer to 10. This guy broke my fairly chunky combination lock in seconds, in broad daylight, on a busy street. Very frustrating, even if I understand why other people didn’t intervene.
Got the video when the person in front of me at the Garda station was there to report they had seen a bike stolen and filmed it. Nice coincidence.
Did the right thing not confronting him in my opinion, these fuckers are scum
And he cycled the wrog way down a one-way street, dear god.
Fuckers. The sad thing about this is even if the Garda did catch them. Fuck all happen s to them
Man I wish you had a pole or something to crack him over the head
Jesus the sheer brazenness of the prick. Literally daylight robbery and not a threat of a guard potentially coming around the corner to worry about.
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Fake Billy’s out again
Imagine growing up and amounting to nothing more than a bike thief. What a disappointment.
I’d love to drop kick him off of it.
Make this behaviour a sport, sheer willpower and speed cunt is going with, he’d rake gold medals as if it’s Olympics.
Scumbag ! really grinds my gears that these f*cktards think they are entitled to someone else’s hard earned property.
Hell probably sell that for 30 quid. Robs 3 or 4 a day id say.
It looks like he just brute forced it using a quick release saddle that I assume he just nicked off another bike. Absolute scrote but that’s kind of impressive tbh.
Need to complete revamp the Irish justice for proper deterrents.
Get caught stealing a bike, sentence is knees and hands broken by sledgehammer
And unfortunately the gards will probably do fuck all.
The bystander effect is mad. If I saw a thief I like to think I’d get a few kicks in but you never know until you’re there I suppose.
Check Facebook marketplace that’s usually where they’ll sell it. What brand bike is it and I’ll have a look
The old hoody under a jumper combo, I actually rocked it in my youth. The cringe.
You can get quite cheap GPS lights nowadays, so if it gets robbed, you can track the fuckers and send the lads around.
*proceeds to cycle into oncoming traffic*
I had my bike stolen in a broad daylight few years ago – i reported it to GARDs and got it back the same day – it turned out that the stealing scumbag was scared off by a passerby and Gards took the bike to the station (lucky me:) Learned my lesson and bought a better lock, another time my saddle and seatpost was stolen from under my nose(bike was chained to a fence in front of my house)..I think a public whipping would be an adequate punishment for stealing bikes or parts..it’s a bloody plague..
Here in Portland, bike theft is rampant (as I believe it is in most major cities). A couple of major theft rings have been broken up in the past few years; they often hide in homeless encampments. Bikes are usually stripped and the components pawned off or sold online. At my daughter’s school, kids came out one day to find every bike gone from the bike racks.
As to locks, none are impervious: thieves here often bring portable angle grinders, and just like yer man above, cut them off in broad daylight.
For myself, I have an old clunker (shopping bike) that I use if I need to lock it up. Sad to lose it, but not catastrophic.
Accidentally reset my own combination lock once that was on my bike. Went to a car garage mechanics that was close and borrowed a small bolt cutter tool. I was afraid it was gonna take ages to cut tru it and everyone would be looking at me and calling guards etc. it took about 1 minute. There was one kid who was looking at me as I walked off and said to him “it’s my bike”. I now use 2 of those steal U locks.
Is the cunt actually making celebratory noises/grunts as he cycles off?
Where the fuck do these people come from?
Did you get it back?
I was about to say why didn’t you run over and try to stop him but you never know what that type of weapon scum like that have, a dirty needle or anything.
Still amazes me how people spend so much on bikes but laugh at the thought of dropping €70100 on a lock you’d need a grinder for.
I take it that’s not you filming?
Why didn’t you intervene
Question, why did you video it? Why not do something about it?
So why were you filming it? I’d be chasing the son of a bitch down!
What’s that monster sounding guy?
Why’d you just let him go
You should’ve gone all John Wick and thrown a half filled water bottle in-between the wires of the front tire.
Why didn’t you brain him with something.
It’s amazing how shit bike locks are.
Just a heads up, there are 24/7 indoor facilities for bikes in town that are free to use, google Bike Parking access at Q-Park The Spire
Surprised many people aren’t aware of these
Should probably try stop him no?
Imagine just standing there watch some junkie steak yer bike🤣
Should have drop kicked the prick! Most
Of those lads would crumble at the first sign of conflict their bodies are already eating themselves from the inside out.
Hopefully he got ran over by a truck or something down the road. Fuckin scumbags deserve every bit of shit coming their way.
Should have went over he would have pissed himself I’d say
Ya stand there and video ya useless clem
This is awful, I’m so sorry this happened.
I do want to give you some advice for the future. This is not to victim blame, but the bike was locked very poorly. What you need to do is get at minimum a good U lock (like a Kryptonite) and a cable. Some people use two U locks but you have to weigh up the practicality.
Then to actually lock the bike, never ever lock it by the top bar like you did, or by any other part of the frame only. The U lock goes around the rim of the back wheel (not just a few spokes) and the frame. Depending on what you’re locking it to, it can also go around the crank of one of the pedals. The idea is to have everything as tight as possible to the bike stand, so a thief can’t easily get leverage. The cable goes around the frame, rim of the front wheel, and bike stand and is attached to the U lock. Again, the idea is to keep everything as tight as possible so a thief can’t yank and twist the bike and attempt the break the lock that way. It also protects the bike from falling.
It should look [something like this](https://sfbike.org/news/keep-your-wheels-safe-how-to-lock-your-bike/) when it’s locked.
The purpose of all this is not to 100% protect your bike from every thief. Nothing can do that. But this will protect your bike from opportunistic thieves and here’s the thing: if your bike is locked like this and other bikes around it are poorly attached to the stand, _a thief will steal another bike instead of yours_. They want the easiest mark.
Serial offenders should be fitted with gps tags like in the US.
Only way to stop this shit.
How did he get the chain off?
What amazes me is that people see this and do nothing other than take out their phones and film.
Do something people. Shout at him for example.
It’s crap like this, which is why I stopped cycling. If they couldn’t get your bike, they would have wrecked it.
I wonder where he’d go with it now that, that bike yard isn’t across from cineworld anymore
Did you really stand there and record him breaking your lock and stealing it? I don’t know the full story but surely you could of prevented that by screaming over at the cunt.