| Re: Important Omission on Folding Bikes
Ian Jelf wrote:
>> Once you start to consider what a thief with a truck can do, you might as
>> well give up. I once heard of a theft where a flatbed truck was used to
>> haul away a rack with all the bikes locked to it. (Could be an urban
>> legent, but it's possible.)
>
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> Was that in Saint Giles' in Oxford by any chance? I've been told that
> it happened there in the late 1980s.
A similar incident happened allegedly at Birmingham around 1990. The
thieves drove up in a box van. At the main gate they claimed to be
delivering to the Guild of Students, and were let in (you could say
anything to the guards there and they'd let you in). They drove round
the corner, and in full view of the gate guards and umpteen hundred
students passing in and out of the Guild (ie, the Union), used bolt
cutters to empty the railings and bike racks, loaded them all inside,
and drove out again unchallenged.
R.
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