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A few of us were sitting outside the lab at lunchtime enjoying the sunshine when one of our students pointed out that a chav was taking an interest in some bikes locked up in a covered bike rack about 50m away. As I watched the guy, (and he watched me watching him), he casually pulled out a set of bolt cutters! By the time I'd gotten to my feet and made it about 5m towards him,he was on the bike and away. Now admittedly, I'm not fast off the mark nowadays, but the speed that he nicked that bike was frightening!
I immediately reported it to the lunchtime porter on duty in our building, who's initial reaction wasn't over inspiring as he just said, "happens all the time", but he must have done something as our normal porter just phoned to say that the guy has been nabbed by the coppers with two bikes!
CCTV cameras everywhere, lunchtime in the centre of Glasgow's West end, whilst being watched by folk, and it didn't phase him a bit. Must have taken him all of 10 secs to pull the bolt cutters out, cut the lock and jump on the bike.
At least the only disappointed person today will be the chav. Good work from the University porters and the Police!
C.
See, what you were dealing with there wasn't a chav - it was a ned. A ned is like distilled essence of chav...
Doing it so openly, might even have been a bam
See, what you were dealing with there wasn't a chav - it was a ned. A ned is like distilled essence of chav...
Beaten to it, you need to get your terminology correct 🙂
The ned would probably have chibbed you for calling him a chav or at least stuck the heid.
Scotland is so good at producing neds that we even have different sub-species of them 😆
I've watched a guy walk up to a bike and test every bike on a rack then just yank one and ride off on argyle street.
So we know Beagleboy is an outlander then, or even worse *shudders* from Edinburgh!
So we know Beagleboy is an outlander then, or even worse *shudders* from Edinburgh!
Nah, he didn't call him a pleb or an oik 😆
You should have spoken to the miscreant in terms he could understand.
"Bolt ya Rocket!" would have been a suitable opening gambit, I suggest.
Bonnybridge actually. UFO capitol of the UK, 1995!
C. 🙂
A ned is like distilled essence of chav...
Also see, Charva, from Newcastle.
Worst is when that happens and the chav (it was in this case) rides past you, within STRIKING distance, on your mate's bike. And you don't realise until he's gone. Still seeth about that one...
Beagleboy - MemberBonnybridge actually. UFO capitol of the UK, 1995!
C.
But your posts don't seem to have liberal usage of the words "ken" and "like" - I'm confused.
Maybe time to invest in a crossbow, and shoot him right in the face with it.
"Cut this bolt, ya wee shite!"
where abouts at the uni and you found a porter lol
what lab you work in?
I work in the Wellcome Centre for Molecular Parasitology in the GBRC next door to the British Heart Foundation. 🙂
I did my PhD in the joseph black. who is your supervisor?
I'm a research tech. I supervise the supervisors whenever they decide to do some lab work....heaven help us! :-p
I immediately reported it to the lunchtime porter on duty in our building
Yeah - don't go troubling the police while you're actually witnessing a crime in action. Especially not on their lunch break. 🙂
It honestly didn't occur to me to phone the police myself maccruiskeen. I assumed everything was caught on the CCTV at the porter's desk and as I was standing right at the entrance to the building when the guy legged it with the bike, I just went in and said "Did you see that!"
They seem to have coordinated with the police and dealt with it very effectively as the guy was caught trying to lift a second bike from the campus soon afterwards. I have to admit that's probably my first ever encounter with 'proper' crime in all my 47yrs and I was just completely taken aback by how brazen he was. I'll put crimestoppers on my phone just in case something similar happens again, if that'll make you happier. 😉
Please don't ring Crimestoppers for that. Just ring 999.
Beagleboy - Member
I'm a research tech. I supervise the supervisors whenever they decide to do some lab work....heaven help us! :-p
I've been lucky, the people I've worked with actually know what they are doing in a lab.
He'll be shaking like a shitting dog right now with no gear in him.
Bonnybridge actually. UFO capitol of the UK, 1995!
Also where I'm from!
See this is why when I do park my bike up I always shift it out of gear so if someone was to jump on it, it wouldn't be a fast getaway.
We had gypsy lads break into our secure bike lockup during working hours about 25m from a glass office full of hundreds of people.
Luckily they were chased off by staff....
Master of the understatment eh beagy,,Now admittedly, I'm not fast off the mark nowadays
You'd never get that sort of thing happening if you parked your bike outside the Red House I'm sure.
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You should have been here in 1773 when a handful of people stole 8,000 acres of common land in full view of the people who had rights to it!
funkweasel - MemberMaybe time to invest in a crossbow, and shoot him right in the face with it.
"Cut this bolt, ya wee shite!"
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