The gardai making a brilliant move, now when someone robs your bike, they know where you live to come back for more!

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  2. Absolute rednecks. This is what ‘a little education is a dangerous thing’ means. Some big ape with a big farmer’s head on him is probably the ‘tech guy’ in the department and got this brainwave whilst taking a Guinness shite on a Sunday morning after 15 pints of Guinness at the local golf club the night before.

  4. A much better idea would be an invisible ink unique code that isn’t your address.

    Whilst this is a far from perfect solution, it is better.

  5. Why would the criminal be any more inclined to visit your house over any other house?

    I would happily have my eir code on my bike and I see no logic in any of the commenters complaints.

    The thief already has my bike. Knowing where I live means fuck all

  6. This is terrifying.

    ‘Mr Rapey sees woman lock up bike. Proceeds to check Eircode when woman gone. Mr Rapey doesn’t rob bike – but lies wait at address. ‘

    ‘Mr House Robber checks eircode on bike outside pub. He knows you are out for the night so heads to address’

  7. A couple issues: 1. Don’t put your address on your bike, gives thief’s more info than they need. 2. What if you sell your bike? Etch out the old eircode and re-etch a new one?

    There’s already a [bike register](https://www.bikeregister.com) in place for the UK with a unique code, and can easily be used to maintain a database in Ireland. The gardai never cease to amaze me how poor they are.

  8. Ok idea isn’t bad, but do we ignore the fact that this shit is done in public during daylight and guards are useless at tackling the issue, thus this doing nothing to decrease criminal activity of stealing bikes.

    How about mount loads CCTV around bike racks, and plaster every cunt stealing bike pictures on every lampost to bust them.

  9. One of the biggest issues with bike theft is not having a unique identifier on the bike. They get bikes back but have no way of knowing who owns them. This is a simple method for helping that.

    Maybe the eircode is a bad idea, but it’s a flyer from a university. It’s probably not your actual eircode being engraved. You can probably have whatever you want on it.

  13. They do something similar in Amsterdam, difference being the bike is engraved with a unique identitfing number. They take down some details and you get a little card proving the bike is yours.

  14. I love this sub because no matter what there will be some miserable bastards defending shit as braindead and comatose as this

  15. Seems pretty far fetched to think that having robbed someone’s bike, the thief would be any more attracted to the owners house as a target for burglary than any other random house. Surely houses are targeted for things like being less secure, in a wealthy area, unoccupied, not having a dog, rather than “recently had a bike stolen”. Unless I’m missing something, it seems more likely an eircode would tend to be used either by the guards or directly by a member of the public, to return a person’s bike, as intended by this scheme .

  16. Ahh yes nothing like damaging the bike, the engraved bit would start corroding. Then when you wanna sell it, what does the next owner do, engrave over it?

    Much better would be something I use from motorcycle insurance, its invisble DNA ink that links the motorcycle back to me, so in case its stolen and parted out, each part can be marked to link it back to me

  20. All bicycles have a unique serial number already on the frame. Everyone should take a photo of their bike and serial number so they are to hand if you need to report it stolen. I really don’t see the point of engraving an eircode.

  22. You could just put your initials on it along with 4 random numbers if you don’t want to use your Eírcode!

  24. I can see somebody getting locked up and them making a movie about it.
    Man buys bike, has eircode etched on it. 3 years later he changes address…….

    Obviously the movie is….”The pedal crank redemption”.

  26. OP, what you’re saying isn’t going to happen.

    However, this wouldn’t be an issue if the courts actually punished thieves.

  27. You know in Saudi Arabia they don’t have such ridiculous techniques to save your bike or car from theft. They just have strict laws and hence no one dares to rob a bike. The muppets who came up with the above solution need to be taught “Precaution is better than cure”. How about impose strict punishments on criminals so they refrain from stealing bikes instead of asking common people to take more precautions. What is next? Walk with a bulletproof vest so you’re safe if some teen attacks you with a knife?!

  32. Phone number would make more sense than eircode tho right? I’d rather a potential stalker had my number than my home address if I had a choice in the matter

  35. The idea here is great and valid and works in many other countries.

    The way this idea is made is the problem. You never put actual personal details on an object. You “encrypt” it.

    This tactic is supposed to work like this.

    1. Garda setup a database for this program.
    2. Garda engraves your object(s) with a unique identifying number.
    3. This UID is entered into their database with your details, where the personal data is locked, can be searched by the UID but only visible to garda with password or some security.
    4. The owner of the object would go to local station with this UID and claim said object having being stolen.

    Its so simple but why they cant implement such simple things where many other countries already have since 2005……its not a lack of funds for sure…..

  38. This was done recently in my hometown but for hardware and farm equipment.

    While I was out being walked my dog I came across them and I asked them why they chose the eir code over phone number.

    Both Gardai responded by saying, yeah that would be the smarter thing to do but, we’re just doing what we’re told to do.

    Let’s say –

    If someone were to rob something and it showed up at an auction, car boot sale or something similar, the buyer instantly knows your house has more tools there. And exactly where your house is.

    Not smart at all.

  42. What kind of dillusional make belief fairyland do you live in where a Thief would for some mysterious reason visit the eircode of the owner of a bike they just stole?

  44. I lived in 6 rental properties over 6 years before I bought, and my bike came with me to all of them. No way I would engrave my eircode on my bike while renting. Great idea to put an identifier, but it sort of ignores the fact of unstable accommodation.

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