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[Closed] Bristol - cyclist's bike stolen after washing line strung across path

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Not my locale, but thought some people are down that way

http://www.bikeradar.com/news/article/cyclists-bike-stolen-after-clothes-line-strung-across-cycle-path-32708

 
Posted : 14/12/2011 1:27 pm
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i was thinking (bristol/bath cycleway) before clicking the link.unfortunately i was right 🙁 i hope they catch the to**er's 😡

 
Posted : 14/12/2011 1:29 pm
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scumbags shoot the tossers if they catch them.

 
Posted : 14/12/2011 1:34 pm
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loving the picture that accompanies the article:
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Posted : 14/12/2011 1:35 pm
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Nice account of something very similar happening to a London copper:

...I am cycling through the park, and it's quite dark. In the corner of my eye, I spot some movement. At nearly 3am, in a dark park, that's generally bad news, so I slow down to take a closer look. Slowing down probably saved my life, because the next thing I know, I'm thrown off my bicycle. The movement I had spotted was a teenager ducking in behind a tree, and the reason he was there was that he and a friend had spanned a length of steel wire across the cycle path, roughly at neck level. It's an old trick: Get the cyclist off the bike, then nick their bike and possessions whilst they are dazed and confused. Or, in some cases, [url= http://www.****/news/article-1036930/First-picture-trail-bike-boy-17-killed-trip-wire-track.html ]dead[/url].

-- http://mattdelito.wordpress.com/2011/09/23/introducing/

 
Posted : 14/12/2011 1:41 pm
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Not the first time along there.

 
Posted : 14/12/2011 1:51 pm
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Always gives me the heebyjeebies riding it in the dark. Not good. 😐

 
Posted : 14/12/2011 1:52 pm