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Similar story to Clefty and Stix. Last summer I came out of the dentist on Edgeware Road to find that a third lock had been added to my bike. Police told me they would do nothing, that I had to sort it out myself (perhaps not always there to serve the public, then?) so I rang my dad who turned up 45 minutes later with a big duffel bag full of tools. We were just pulling the jack out of the bag when this guy in the house opposite the railings ran out shouting “no no” and unlocked it.
“You can do one of two things,” my dad said, “either punch him in the balls or say thank you.”
In retrospect, I should have chosen the former.
Anyway, it turned out he considered a set of railings outside his house to be his property despite the fact they are lining a public footpath and are clearly there as some sort of precaution against traffic. Some people have seriously weird ideas.