Stolen bikes

That's mine! Got knicked last Sunday. Do you know who was selling it??

Hey Psephos....it's not really a case of who...as they all look vaguely the same, unshaven, gobshite eastenders, Tracksuits, burberry, special brew/super, reebok classics,...

I'm not trying to be rude or elitist...however, I fail to understand the perpetuation of glory surrounding these prize A cunts...

thats what soo got my goat about the police, If they had actually been doing their little jolly less than 50 metres around the corner...'Sales' for the day would have had to have been abandoned...how many £500 bikes can you punt off at £70, with a copper standing on your left shoulder..
As it was, 15 policemen stood around drinking coffee and chatting the shit, whilst endemic bike theft and sale happened 'live' in 'real time' literally around the fucking corner?

and they wonder why we raise an eyebrow as to their seriousness...

The jumped up little prick was attempting to say...ahhh...yes...but you just watch what happens in a few weeks...

yes...next sunday morning you'll have a groupthink about how it went...more coffee,...more pr...and you'll rock up at half past fucking one again after the theives have been trading for 4 hours?
..I know it's slowly slowly catchy monkey...and that they are trying not to start a riot...however...you want to make a good impression...?
you go and nick all those that are punting a bike..

and then ask questions?...you put the pictures of the bike in metro.,..You make the public aware of this new bike theft initiative and people will respond, every one that I make a bike for..regardless of it's type, is always gutted its been stolen.

10 happy owners...? reunited because of a good description? It really is simple...it sorts it's self out....

I don't see how it has to be some sort of 'french connection' sting...Why would it need to be, it's localised immediate theft, it's a weekly supply and demand problem...it would be solveable. Within 3 months you would have nicked the same people over and over...
It's not a case of catching them stealing it..but selling it...if it is stolen..you take the damned bike off them.
You put 3 or 4 bikes in the paper and the rest on a webpage..If its a nodder bike...they will have a receipt to prove ownership...

with us ...you have photos, you know the bike inside out and can tell them it has a fault or a scratch or it has a spec list as long as your arm you know back to front..

I just wonder, thats why the rant.

Will this exercise actually do anything towards minimising the bike theft culture that exists, I mean compared to how may are stolen and how many reappear for sale, and the time delay between the two...

Have they already fucked it up by appearing at one of the main sales arenas mob handed anyway? every one now knows to be a bit more cagey? rather than have had lots of different cops go under cover for a sunday morning and buy a bike...each week a different copper buys a stolen bike of the same person?

would it have been better to collate the links between gumtree, the habitual sellers on there?

It just smells of bullshit PR with policemen on bikes because bikes are trendy and it will help win a vote, It's a shame to be so faithless, however I don't think they have done this to help reduce bike theft...

or there would have been some huge 'sting' already...I'm sure they think it's not a 'serious' problem ...every sunday there, there must be a short fall of cash between the cost of something new and how much its resale value is..

what would that add up to? you regularly see bikes of a thousand pounds being sold for a couple of hundred, that is the second hand bike ceiling limit..

on the street at 9am on a sunday morning...your £1500 bike is £250...maximum....

rant over..again.,..

I have just had a weird few days. and seeing that farce yesterday really twistedmy melon!!