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@matt_r_p
Witnessed the most cack-handed attempt at covert bike theft yesterday... I somehow doubt it's the latest new thing in bike theft but I thought I'd relate it...
Yesterday afternoon my missus left her bike by the front of our house with the d-lock round the rear wheel and the frame. It had the kid seat on the back and her helmet hanging off the lock too. So she goes to lock it up properly around 9pm and realises it's gone. She's mystified... then notices the bike about 20m up the street. Walks up there to find that someone has moved it, passed a cable round the bike and a telegraph pole, and padlocked the ends of the cable together. So she gets out the hacksaw, cuts through the cable, brings it home and locks it up properly. Around 11pm I heard a noise outside and there's some young hoodie sniffing around who immediately buggers off on his bike.
So what the fuck? They must have moved the bike around 4pm which displays some chutzpah, and they were expecting that nobody would notice it half way up the street? They were intending to come back with a van in the middle of the night, even though there would have been a great chance that someone was watching it? Why lock it with a basic bike cable that took two minutes to saw through? I've heard of bikes being d-locked and nicked later but this was surreal. Answers on a postcard please.