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Been reading this thread lately with interest... and while I agree it's everyone's responsibility to look after their things (lock them well, etc.), it starts to get a bit ridiculous. Is it also every woman's responsibility to wear full-body armour because if you leave anything exposed, some guy will come along and rape you? If car theft were as rampant as bike theft, you could be sure the police/gov't would be doing something to stop it. We should all have heavy bars on non-opening windows on our houses too, because lord knows just a splinter of daylight shining through is the go-ahead for a thief with his pocket dremel to cut through the hinges.
Sounds pretty ridiculous, doesn't it? Yet here we are talking about bicycles in the same way, blaming the victim if he/she doesn't lock the bike securely enough with £££ worth of NY locks. In a country with an obscene number of CCTV cameras, it strikes me as pretty pathetic that bike theft (and resale a la Brick Lane market) is so rampant.
Not sure what can be done about it, just felt like ranting a bit... it's a loser's game really, owning a nice bike.