Thieving **??!!s

Went out to get the bikes from the garage a few minute ago for the Sunday
morning ride.

Some thieving toerag has half inched 4 mountain bikes form my garage!
Multiple chains an locks all bolt cropped.

Sadly, the average garage is not a very secure place. The first line of
defence, the doorlocks are all too easily breached by a variety of
means. There are supplementary ground based shackles that can be used
to help secure the up and over doors and the replacement of the standard
pattern sidedoor lock with a five lever mortice lock helps. One inside
thieves are hidden from view and can work at leisure.

At the end of the day, locks only keep out honest people and a
determined thief will negate any security measures that you use.

I hope angainst all hopes, that the thieves are caught.

PK wrote:

Went out to get the bikes from the garage a few minute ago for the Sunday
morning ride.

Some thieving toerag has half inched 4 mountain bikes form my garage!
Multiple chains an locks all bolt cropped.

not a good way to start a Sunday morning!

Should be insured under your house insurance if they were in the garage
(generally you don't need specific bike insurance if they're locked away
at home). New bikes all round!

On Sun, 7 Dec 2003 08:44:53 +0000 (UTC), "PK"
wrote:

Went out to get the bikes from the garage a few minute ago for the Sunday
morning ride.

Some thieving toerag has half inched 4 mountain bikes form my garage!
Multiple chains an locks all bolt cropped.

not a good way to start a Sunday morning!

Son of a b%*#$ !!

Commiserations (

Dare I ask if they were insured?
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On Sun, 7 Dec 2003 08:44:53 +0000 (UTC), "PK"
wrote:

Went out to get the bikes from the garage a few minute ago for the
Sunday morning ride.

Some thieving toerag has half inched 4 mountain bikes form my garage!
Multiple chains an locks all bolt cropped.

not a good way to start a Sunday morning!

Son of a b%*#$ !!

Commiserations (

Dare I ask if they were insured?

yep!

But its a pain in the rump to have to get various family memers round a
bike shop or two to work out what we want as replacements. At least "4 front
sus montain bikes with all the trimmings, please" should get me a decent
discount!

pk

"PK" wrote

Went out to get the bikes from the garage a few minute ago for the Sunday
morning ride.

Some thieving toerag has half inched 4 mountain bikes form my garage!
Multiple chains an locks all bolt cropped.

not a good way to start a Sunday morning!

Commiserations. The most annoying part when I had the back wheel of my
bike stolen a while ago was that I saw the bloke doing it but didn't realise
it at the time. Locked it up outside a shopping centre, went in, came out
maybe 5 minutes later, glanced over at bike racks before carrying on up the
road to a different shop, saw someone there putting a wheel on a bike,
assumed it was his own rather than mine. People sat at the cafe table 2
metres away didn't notice ofcourse.

vernon.levy wrote:

At the end of the day, locks only keep out honest people and a
determined thief will negate any security measures that you use.

I once read that the definition of a civilised society was that glass
windows were considered sufficient to keep burglars out.

Zog The Undeniable wrote:

vernon.levy wrote:

At the end of the day, locks only keep out honest people and a
determined thief will negate any security measures that you use.

I once read that the definition of a civilised society was that glass
windows were considered sufficient to keep burglars out.

Does that mean I have to remove the high voltage fence, snarling pit
bull and acid moat around my shed?

John B

On Sun, 07 Dec 2003 10:32:13 +0000 someone who may be "vernon.levy"
wrote this:-

One inside
thieves are hidden from view and can work at leisure.

Unless they have activated the house alarm, in which case they will
grab what they can and if the bikes are fastened then they may not
have time to take them.

Personally I think this is one situation where land mines are
justified, but the courts would disagree with me. They land mines
would also damage the bikes, so perhaps a suitable electrical
connection to the bike frames would be a better bet.


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I will always explain revoked keys, unless the UK government
prevents me using the RIP Act 2000.

In article , JohnB wrote:
I once read that the definition of a civilised society was that glass
windows were considered sufficient to keep burglars out.

Does that mean I have to remove the high voltage fence, snarling pit
bull and acid moat around my shed?

I got into trouble with the plod when I electrified the door knob on my
workshop.

--
A T (Sandy) Morton
on the Bicycle Island
In the Global Village
http://www.sandymillport.fsnet.co.uk

On Sun, 07 Dec 2003 18:40:48 +0000 (GMT), Sandy Morton
wrote:

I got into trouble with the plod when I electrified the door knob on my
workshop.

Did you seriously expect not to?

--
Dave...