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Posted by MrPowers under Personal, Scotland/Dundee
There was once a time when you could rome about freely not worrying about crime, crackheads, and nutcases. How times have changed! Even when I had a bike I cannot imagine myself leaving it anywhere near the town center. I would be so scared that it would get stolen. But as this photo proves I don’t need to worry about that at all…. apparently its just the tires that people want and not the whole bike. I would much rather replace just the tires than the whole bicycle to be honest!
I was going for a walk to day and just so happened to pass it so I took a quick snap using the crappy camera on my 3 year old phone. This immediately reminded me of what happened to Alex and Jim and their bikes. They had theirs inside a secure apartment building yet somebody took it upon themselves to slash the tires on the two bikes!! So much for the locked doors keeping out the idiots which rome our streets. So the tires + wheels seem to be hot on the market at the moment, however I can’t see why so many people would want them….
I’ve got it! people are buying back their own bike parts. What an ingenious idea!! Why didnt I think of that!!
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Ingenious!? If I find you have my tired lad, it’ll be the back of my hand ye’r feelin’! :p
On a serious note though, yes, it is ridiculous that you can’t leave your bike aside for a short while in fear it get stolen or, as you pointed out in your post and as happened to JC and myself, damaged. How can civilization have fall so far that a new found piece of entertainment for someone is the damage of others property…?? I mean, seriously, I know TV was bad but this as an alternative?
I guess I will have to partake in it sometime… perhaps in a slightly more just way… say for example I find the little [omits swear a few words here-and-there] that did this and apply some of their own sense of entertainment… say to their faces? *nods*
Okay, rant over but yes, having been victim to one (perhaps more) of these shits (forgot to omit there but what can you do =/), a much heart-felt post and a nice enough picture for an old camera-phone.
Alex | Zen