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  • Yeah, in Holland I just used to lock my bike where I pleased. Never more than 10 feet walk from wherever I was going. In London they'd get carted off, nicked or squashed by a van...

    They would be extremely unlikely to be carted off, pretty likely to get nicked, and very unlikely to get squashed by a van. The two unlikely ones obviously happen every once in a while, but as they are so rare tend to get over-reported. Curiously enough, there was huge under-reporting in the press of the problem of bike theft in London until we raised the issue to greater attention.

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