Bike owners have been specifically targeted at times here, for example, there was a recent rash of thefts of high end road bikes out of people's garages when they were at work during the day. This happened in an upscale urban neighborhood. The thieves were targeting bikes specifically.
A couple years back there was a guy who was trying to befriend people at rides and would then consequently steal their bikes, all the while posing as a friend. They caught him with something like 20 high end bikes in his garage, I'm just glad he was caught. Never heard what kind of sentence he got though, or even if he was convicted. On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 4:34 PM, Peter Morgano <[email protected]>wrote: > Ive always wondered about tactics like this. Are bike thieves > specifically thieves who steal just bikes? I don't know, arent they are > just criminals, creatures of opportunity? I am all for anything to combat > bike theft, it just interests me on a criminal justice level if these kind > of targeted tactics work or siphon off resources from overall crime > reduction, which would reduce thefts and crime across the board. > > > On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 4:34 PM, Tom Virgil <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Bicycle theft has occasionally been a sore subject in here. >> >> Some folks are doing >> something<http://www.nytimes.com/video/us/100000002896894/is-this-a-bait-bike.html>about >> it. >> >> ~Tom >> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "RBW Owners Bunch" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "RBW Owners Bunch" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Keep the metal side up and the rubber side down! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
