Bristol Bike Crime
Local police set up some bikes getting stolen in Broadmead to see if people call 999, or in fact do anything at all. What would you do?
( Herb Alpert's Taxi Driver is eating a Banana Mouskouri, Fri 9 Nov 2012, 19:06, Reply)

My thinking is if you dialed 999 for theft of a bike you'd be waisting the time of the emergencies surely?
Is there a number for lesser crimes being witnessed? Most people don't know it. Therein lies the problem.
(jonofthesouth and shit and piss, Fri 9 Nov 2012, 19:11, Reply)

When it was on local news
the reporter told the police that someone had text in to say they rang 999 to report a bike crime and the copper said they couldn't do anything about it. The response was that people should at least call it in, I'm guessing for statistics?
( Herb Alpert's Taxi Driver is eating a Banana Mouskouri, Fri 9 Nov 2012, 19:19, Reply)

But if you dialed 999 would you be wasting the call time that could be used for a life and death emergency?
That'd be my concern. That's why I wouldn't have dialed 999. I'd have taken a photo/reported it to the police, but my intuition wouldn't tell me to dial 999 on the spot. Maybe I'm in the wrong.
(jonofthesouth and shit and piss, Fri 9 Nov 2012, 19:34, Reply)

After watching '999: What's your emergency?'
calling in bike crime will seem like a proper emergency compared with the shit that gets called in over a weekend.
( Herb Alpert's Taxi Driver is eating a Banana Mouskouri, Fri 9 Nov 2012, 19:41, Reply)

999 if the crime is in progress.

( Lord Scrope of Masham, Fri 9 Nov 2012, 19:27, Reply)

^this
life or property is at risk.

They won't do anything about it like, but you apparently should ring 999 anyway
( t0ria inevitable, Fri 9 Nov 2012, 19:32, Reply)

08000683625
Is the non-essential number you need.
( Tab Hunter flicking Su Pollard's tiny cock, while she belms, Fri 9 Nov 2012, 20:51, Reply)

01189998819991197253

( Lord Keeps meaning to procrastinate., Fri 9 Nov 2012, 20:52, Reply)

...and then steal it back again!?

( Tab Hunter flicking Su Pollard's tiny cock, while she belms, Fri 9 Nov 2012, 21:07, Reply)

*sniggers*

( Kerrisis Nuns. No sense of humour., Fri 9 Nov 2012, 22:40, Reply)

So true,,
I live in amsterdam and have a few bikes (as you do here) now and again you come back to your bike to realise someone else has locked their bike to yours. It's happened to me a couple of times now and the last time I was really angry because I was late for work and had to just leave it.
After work I came back and it was still locked to another bike.
I went home and got my tools and took the other bike to pieces on the pavement right infront of everyone, more out of rage then getting the lock off it must be said. Many people just watched me in a furious state take the bike apart. One guy even challenged me and spoke to me for a while but did nothing.
After about 30 mins I finally got my bike free by cutting the lock off with an angle grinder and left the other bike in a pile on the floor ;)
Nothing happened apart from the pile stayed there for a few weeks as a warning to others not to do this again ;)
(Mokum420, Fri 9 Nov 2012, 19:20, Reply)

At least someone challenged you...
I have done the same a couple of times with people being dodgy round cars and bikes and not been stabbed...yet. I think people are too scared.
( Herb Alpert's Taxi Driver is eating a Banana Mouskouri, Fri 9 Nov 2012, 19:31, Reply)

I used to know a lad who stole for a 'living'
He'd openly break into cars etc. and when I asked him about getting challenged he said that he figured his motivation to get away would far outweigh anything a passer-by would be prepared to do to stop him
( TownsendsPublisher Woooooooooooooooooooooooo!, Fri 9 Nov 2012, 19:39, Reply)

I was once arrested in Amsterdam for throwing bikes into the canals
I was released a few hours later with a stern telling off. Not the highlight of my career but I assure you it was entirely drug fuelled.
( atdotslash is pushing things forward, Fri 9 Nov 2012, 19:43, Reply)

SHAME ON YOU

( Herb Alpert's Taxi Driver is eating a Banana Mouskouri, Fri 9 Nov 2012, 19:55, Reply)

The next day I saw a canal boat with a crane on it scooping out all the bikes.
There was fucking loads of them no doubt thrown in by twatty English like me.
( atdotslash is pushing things forward, Fri 9 Nov 2012, 20:09, Reply)

I always end up in these places when I go there:
3.bp.blogspot.com/_KFRBtn_QhHk/TAxiFfUHfaI/AAAAAAAAAFM/MxjDqfTZHFA/s1600/food_febo.jpg
(pissflaps., Fri 9 Nov 2012, 20:19, Reply)

*strangely dissapointed by pissflaps link*

( Herb Alpert's Taxi Driver is eating a Banana Mouskouri, Fri 9 Nov 2012, 20:27, Reply)

^This^
I held my nose when I clicked too. Can't be too careful
( TownsendsPublisher Woooooooooooooooooooooooo!, Fri 9 Nov 2012, 20:34, Reply)

Do the snacks tap on the windows when you walk by......
....and really not like it when you take pictures?
( atdotslash is pushing things forward, Fri 9 Nov 2012, 20:37, Reply)

honestly, its easy to do a crime and film and go "omg the police arnt doin there jobs omgs!"
but thats bollox and the police are bollix. fuk off. if bin to the pub
(chopchopchopchop chopchopchopchopchopchopchop, Fri 9 Nov 2012, 19:59, Reply)

Hahahah!
I would say 'are you drunk?' but you clearly are! HURRAH!
( Herb Alpert's Taxi Driver is eating a Banana Mouskouri, Fri 9 Nov 2012, 20:02, Reply)

shuyafuginmaaf!

( tickle i love hip hop, Fri 9 Nov 2012, 20:16, Reply)

You should run right up and punch the perpetrator square in the mush.
A man with a broken nose is much easier to pick out in a line up.
( Draconacticus Joystick waggler extraordinaire, Fri 9 Nov 2012, 20:06, Reply)

The Economics of Stolen Bicycles
Low risk means it's a popular sport. blog.priceonomics.com/post/30393216796/what-happens-to-stolen-bicycles
(larrybob, Fri 9 Nov 2012, 21:44, Reply)

So true, that is why I ride a skateboard.

( skeltonator Michael Gondrys' undercrackers, Sat 10 Nov 2012, 1:02, Reply)