A Seattle vigilante who beats the police to bike thieves

Re:A Seattle vigilante who beats the police to bike thieves by c22 on Monday September 05, 2016 @08:38PM (#12433007)

There are two kinds of bike thieves, the kind that target any bike with weak security and sell it for $20 and the kind that are specifically targeting $3000 bikes in an organized fashion for whom no bike lock will be an effective deterrent if your bike is parked somewhere unattended for a long time or in the same place on a recognizable schedule.

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Re:A Seattle vigilante who beats the police to bike thieves by yohoho22 on Monday September 05, 2016 @09:37PM (#12433172)

Yeah, we had one of the latter kind get taken down here in Austin last year: http://keyetv.com/news/local/austin-police-arrest-man-connec...

Connected to 97 thefts of bikes valued from $1k to $12k, including taking only "the most expensive one" of the several owned by the fella interviewed in that story.

Although he really was exploiting a weakness, in that people figured their bikes would be safe in their closed-up garages. I wonder if a good lock would have been enough to make him move on to the next target on his list.

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Re:A Seattle vigilante who beats the police to bike thieves by bfuller on Monday September 05, 2016 @11:51PM (#12433556)

Maybe its just because I am a cyclist and have an emotional attachment to my bike (a 90s bianchi with campagnolo components that I paid $100 at a pawn shop for... which probably means it was stolen)

but I truly despise bicycle thieves.

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