Stolen Bikes - Broadway market

I realise the markets don't go on all night, but after 4pm there's people turning up with stealable bikes all over the city... not just outside the Cat & Mutton.
So where would be the best place to put these policed bike stations, and how many would be needed...?

Glad it sounds like people are interested, people selling stolen bikes on Brick Lane is still another big problem, and I'm not the one to take that on.

But if we can try and do something to stop the bikes being stolen in the first place It will help in the long run...

... anyway - I'm deadly serious about doing this, I'm going to look into similar schemes, pros and cons etc before I approach the council, maybe I should set this up in a separate thread?

to Knuckles :
I dunno, it's not my manor
Someone suggest an area and a pub then and I'm in

Totally, it sounds right... I'm just curious as to the logistics.
But I agree it could work, and it's gotta start somewhere.

http://www.londonfgss.com/group1.html

get chris to assign ownership now he's not in london, do not assign a subforum to the group (make all posts group messages) and make the group invite only.

that way whatever you're doing will be private to members only.

ask vb to help if you need

@markrjohnson - proly illegal not to say dangerous.

Napalm Brick Lane.

@huge16
like that guy who sued the driver who by mistake ran over his hand while he tried to steal the car's wheels AND WON (in america tho). law is weird, but i like markjohnson's idea.

although, i think you can get away with what in law is probably called sustentacle -- something that is there and cant do harm, unless one tries to bypass it -- if you can handle going thru legal bits.

Or, the hipsters who frequent the area are too fucking soft to do anything when they see someone steal a bike.

fuck you, i was eating chips, and how are you to call random people hipsters. i was at work

+1 to ed, if someone gets mugged on the bus even if you shouut "im being mugged" no ones gonna do shit, this is no different.

anyway i shouted at him, but regardless he knew what he was doing, and knew how to get away from it

Utterly disappointed that any one can watch some one steal a bike, weigh up their own safety and not even have it cross their mind that they can JUST CALL THE POLICE.

as if, police would have taken hours to get there. im never gonna run up and rugby tackle some random big dude, especially when you know what the estates in that area harbour

to Knuckles :
I dunno, it's not my manor
Someone suggest an area and a pub then and I'm in

fuck you, i was eating chips, and how are you to call random people hipsters. i was at work

+1 to ed, if someone gets mugged on the bus even if you shouut "im being mugged" no ones gonna do shit, this is no different.

anyway i shouted at him, but regardless he knew what he was doing, and knew how to get away from it

I wasn't talking about you, as you said you shouted at him. I just find it hard to believe that in a packed market nobody noticed anything, it's fucking ridiculous. People must have seen it, and ignored it.

I wasn't talking about you, as you said you shouted at him. I just find it hard to believe that in a packed market nobody noticed anything, it's fucking ridiculous. People must have seen it, and ignored it.

the thing is no one pays attention to other things going on around them if they see someone walk up to a bike and fiddle around with the lock they could just be unlocking there own bike, and no one's going to look twice. especially the yuppies who are on that market during the day anyway, far too busy looking in there reflection in shop mirrors, and at over priced rubbish on the stalls

And you complain about being labeled a hipster?

i dont follow

i dont follow

that doesn't help

still not there

as funny as that picture is for once i would prefer you used words

who leads a donkey to water? It's fucking horses we all know that. Then you look in their gob for your present.

anyway i shouted at him, but regardless he knew what he was doing, and knew how to get away from it

Did you shouted "POLICE!" at the top of the voice? he'd legged it before he realise it just a hipster who scream that ;).

thats actualy a clever idea, but my mouth was full of chips so he probly wouldn't have heard

Shout police you get nuthin, shout fire! every muther fucker comes running.