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@Miss_Britten
Utterly disappointed that any one can watch some one steal a bike, weigh up their own safety and not even have it cross their mind that they can JUST CALL THE POLICE.
It doesn't matter what the bike was, to that person it very well may be their own mode of transport and at the end of the day to absolve your conscience like that is absurd. I've spent the whole Sunday staring in the face of people who are obviously hawking stolen bikes. Even if they had been stood there holding my own bike, a bike that needless to say holds sentimental value, I would know better than to even approach these people. But one phone call to the police, what does that cost you? A bit of money, a bit of your time and a piece of knowledge that one day if this unfortunate set of circumstances were to occur to you that perhaps a fellow cyclist might also try and prevent this and not just enjoy the voyeurism, warm and fuzzy in the knowledge that they could then go home and post it on a thread about people having their bikes nicked and become some kind of self appointed expert in crime.
This has been completly devastating and I hope by people being more pro-active in future the thieves that operate in this area will no longer contiune.