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I seriously Respect This Effort

I’m always impressed by folks who go the extra effort for no personal gain. Someone found a bike and decided to post signs to find the owner. I think this is part of what makes a neighborhood/community great.

And finally a condo/apartment name that I like. Kinda reminds me of the simple brilliance of the Irving.

Category: quality of life, signs

By: Prince Of Petworth | 25 June 2009 4:00 PM | 10 Comments

Zack

Oh, that’s mine! Description…hmmmm. Uh … it’s got wheels. 2 of ‘em. And handlebars, yeah handlebars. Oooh and it has brakes, yup definitely got brakes. And, uh, err, a chain. Yeah. OK, I’ll be by this afternoon to pick it up. Thanks!

June 25, 2009 at 4:43 pm
It's happened to me too many times

Ugh, good for you for looking at the bright side, but to me, a great community is one where your bike doesn’t get stolen in the first place.

June 25, 2009 at 4:48 pm
Odentex

Where would that be? Mayberry?

June 25, 2009 at 5:01 pm
Shawn

My bike was locked on my front porch and someone came up and cut the lock and stole it on Tuesday morning… I wonder how long that sign has been up..

June 25, 2009 at 9:13 pm
ontarioroader

I’ve seen front porches literally dismembered to steal bikes. You can’t leave them out there. Gotta bring them in. Your bike’s only safe inside your home or locked up with a big-a** U lock to something very secure, and even then, not for too long. I’ve seen kids walking around Columbia Heights with 3′ bolt cutters. It’s just the way it is.

June 25, 2009 at 9:19 pm
pointed head wear

A glock would help solve the issue with these blk and wetback punks

June 25, 2009 at 10:04 pm
Shawn

Yeah, it really pisses me off. I knew that in theory my lock wasn’t super strong and that the porch isn’t a great spot for my bike (I usually bring it inside, up the stairs). I just had a ton of stuff to carry when I got home and thought the odds of someone walking up to my house with a bolt cutter by the time I went to ride it to work were pretty low, I guess. It’s not like I didn’t know that someone could have cut my lock if they really wanted to, I just didn’t imagine someone would come up onto my porch and, in plain view of everyone on the street/sidewalk, cut my lock and steal my bike the next day before I got it … I haven’t really learned anything new from this, except now I will have more of an appreciation for the true odds that some criminal will walk around my block with a bolt cutter.

Now I’m almost embarrassed to tell people that my bike was stolen because people will think I’m dumb for leaving my bike outside with a lock that could be cut… I’m also kind of mad that someone steals from me, yet I’m the one who is feeling stupid.

June 25, 2009 at 10:14 pm
ontarioroader

Shawn: I’m really sorry for your loss. I’m of the mind that bike thieves should be treated like horse thieves back-in-the-day. Hopefully others can learn from this. Get a really damn strong lock; Kryptonite or OnGuard and realize you have to spend over $50 for something decent. And no locking up outside overnight. I don’t care how nice folks think their neighborhood is, or how well their neighbors look out for each other, or how their backyard has a nice big ‘security’ fence. Bikes just don’t belong outside overnight. Other random tips: Metro stops, movie theaters and Union Station are super-high targets for theft since the thieves know you’ll be gone for a significant period of time and can ‘work’ on breaking your lock. And finally – no one will EVER interfere in someone breaking a lock. True story: I lost the key for my lock somewhere while at the border’s books downtown. I went to Logan hardware and bought a hacksaw and a few extra blades and spent almost an hour at around 5pm on a weekday cutting away. A few hundred people walked past me and not a single person said a word to me. Cops walked by, couriers rode by, and not a person even said ‘hey is that your bike?’.

Also PoP, is there a way to ‘flag’ comments like the bigot above?

June 25, 2009 at 10:45 pm
Emmaleigh504

I found a chick’s wallet and called around to give it back. I called her folks house and left a message before I found one of her cards with her local number. She came and got it the next day.

A month later she starts calling me b/c she lost her sweater. Then she lost something else and called me. Seems her parents gave her the message I left and she just started calling me whenever she lost something. Really made me regret picking her stupid wallet up. At the very least it made wish I had kept the 4 crummy dollars in her wallet.

The calls finally ended when the phone company and I had a falling out and I canceled my land line.

June 26, 2009 at 8:22 am
ontarioroader - the real one

nice… now we have folks using other people’s names . I didn’t write that^

June 26, 2009 at 5:31 pm