• @Socsa
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    10 days ago

    Get stabbed

    Bleed out in a literal gutter

    $800 tho

    • @[email protected]
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      If anything it would be easier in America.

      Just shoot them the second they touch it. Even if they’re running away with it and you shoot them in the back you will gey away with it.

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        89 days ago

        Inexperienced, but possible. If only bikes worked the same way as America’s best anti-theft measure: a car with manual transmission.

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          Can confirm. Left my 1986 SAAB 900 SPG unlocked for a decade in a couple major cities downtown areas. The only thing anyone ever took was some of my quarters. They also never broke the window to get in, and then realize it was a manual. Didn’t even take the radio, as I did take the faceplate inside with me

  • Herr Woland
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    4810 days ago

    It’s all fun and games till the person who stole your bike has a weapon, or is bigger than you and has friends with them

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      3810 days ago

      I’ll take $75 of my profits and buy a shit new bike whenever someone I can’t beat up takes it

      (I cannot beat up many people. I would not profit from this model.)

      • @sugar_in_your_tea
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        And they’re not going to steal a $75 bike, they steal nice bikes that have resell value.

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            19 days ago

            Yeah the people that steal bikes and the people that know a lot about bike values are probably not usually the same guys

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          9 days ago

          There’s two things that will get your bike stolen. Having a shitter lock than everyone else or a nicer bike. I’d heavily recommend at least having a better lock

          I have an ebike worth about $2k given it’s range and top speed. However, I only lock it to extremely secure objects and use a 10lb, 14 mm chain to secure it. So you’ve either gotta pick the lock which took LockPickingLawyer 2 minutes to do in a vice, cut whatever it’s attached to with an angle grinder, or cut through the chain.

          I doubt anyone is picking the lock, so they have to get through whatever it’s attached to, at which point the chain is still locking the awkward to carry, 100lb bike stationary. If they go for the chain I figure they’ll likely misalign the cutoff wheel at least once and it’ll explode in their face. Needless to say I don’t worry about my bike for day to day use, and if you get a similar lock setup you won’t have to either.

          • @sugar_in_your_tea
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            Sure. My area has low crime, my bike isn’t worth a ton (was $500-600 new), and I use a well-regarded u-lock. Never had it stolen.

            But OP is talking about trying to get the bike stolen so they can jump the thief and steal their money. That doesn’t seem very effective with a $75 bike, which is going to be some big-box hand-me-down pile of crap that most homeless people are going to ignore, much less motivated bike thieves. If you want your bike stolen, it needs to be worth the time to bring it to the pawn shop.

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            29 days ago

            The average Joe won’t bother stealing your bike, but the pros will simply take a bolt cutter and remove your chain or lock.

            A good bolt cutter is a small investment for people who do this for a living.

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              I don’t forsee a 14 mm chain being cut by bolt cutters that would be reasonable to carry around. Especially considering the hardness of the steel it’s made of. I just don’t think it’s worth the effort given the amount of people using cable and D locks that can be cut with handheld shears.

          • Hanrahan
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            19 days ago

            Thays why you need an ebike, to carry the chain to lock it :)

          • @sugar_in_your_tea
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            110 days ago

            The type of people willing to ride, much less steal, a $75 bike aren’t going to be carrying much cash. So you’re not really attracting the right targets.

  • @[email protected]
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    489 days ago

    I remember there was some guy who installed spyware on a phone that couldn’t be wiped off by normal means. Stuff that gave him remote camera access, location, file access, everything. Then he got that phone stolen and made a documentary about this dude’s life.

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        129 days ago

        I think it was baked into the OS somehow (probably what you said). He disabled system updates as well so the OS didn’t wipe. The only way it could have been removed was flashing the OS, but you’d have to find out it was there to begin with.

  • @[email protected]
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    189 days ago

    I understand the “kick a dude’s ass and take their wallet” part, but not why we need the bike with gps prelude

      • @Saledovil
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        1110 days ago

        It’s a bounty hunting quest, though.

  • @ryathal
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    710 days ago

    Criminals can’t call the cops…

  • @Imgonnatrythis
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    210 days ago

    I wish more people did this. Id watch this over to catch a predator any day

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        While I dont necessarily agree, I do agree that petty theft affects regular people all the damn time, you cant do anything about it or you can catch an assault charge, the cops cant or wont do anything about it either so you just have to accept that sometimes people are going to take your shit and nothing is going to happen.

        It would be nice to know those people get their comeuppance from time to time.

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          910 days ago

          As someone who has had to replace three car windows in six months,… yes! Fuck these lowlifes. They deserve a little of this.

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          29 days ago

          To be fair, if everybody did this, bike thefts would decrease. I wonder how many people who got beaten up stole a bike again.

      • @sugar_in_your_tea
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        510 days ago

        Yeah, unless you’re a police department and are literally doing a sting operation, this is just robbing people with extra steps.

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        nah bike thieves are among the lowest of the low, among child abusers and oil execs. Utter sociopathy. It’s one of the scummiest things you can do, hands down.