Thieving **??!!s

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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 said:

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!

PK said:

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 :o(

Dare I ask if they were insured?
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Quoted message said:

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.

Call me Bob said:

PK said:

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 :o(

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

vernon.levy said:

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.

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"PK" <[email hidden]> wrote

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Went out to get the bikes from the garage a few minute ago for the

Sunday

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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

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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

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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.

I use two locks. A big Kryptonite New York lock, through the back wheel and frame (leaving little
room for car jacks), and a toughened cable through the front wheel and frame. The only problem I
have now, is that the *******s will vandalise the bike for being locked too well for them to nick.

On Sun, 07 Dec 2003 10:32:13 +0000 someone who may be "vernon.levy" <[email hidden]>
wrote this:-

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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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keys, unless the UK government prevents me using the RIP Act 2000.

Zog The Undeniable said:

vernon.levy said:

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

In article said:

Quoted message said:

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

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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.

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David Hansen said:

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.

I know someone who has in the past wired his front door handle to the mains and half buried a coffin
in his garden to put off intruders.

He even chainsawed his car in half when he got divorced.
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Mark

Sandy Morton said:

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

Did you seriously expect not to?

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

1. Find them
2. Cut off their goolies
3. Shoot them
4. Burn the bodies.

Hopefully you can do step 2 with their own bolt croppers.

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the Mark said:

I know someone who has in the past wired his front door handle to the mains and half buried a
coffin in his garden to put off intruders.

He even chainsawed his car in half when he got divorced.

I wonder why his wife left him?

Tony

Dave Kahn said:

Sandy Morton said:

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

Did you seriously expect not to?

That's shocking. To think it was his own ohm. But I suppose that's the current state of affairs.
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Richard Bates said:

That's shocking. To think it was his own ohm. But I suppose that's the current state of affairs.

Then they came back and said it was OK - it was a (together) Volt-face... But it was only allowed
faraday before they switched to a negative view again.

Watts the world coming to? Why can't they be neutral?

Advice to electrical students: keep clear of megger. Why? Megger hurts.

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Just zis Guy said:

Then they came back and said it was OK - it was a (together) Volt-face... But it was only allowed
faraday before they switched to a negative view again.

Watts the world coming to? Why can't they be neutral?

Advice to electrical students: keep clear of megger. Why? Megger hurts.

Guy

After all that I was sure you would sign your name as Henry, but obviously there was not enough
inductance for you to do so.

Tony

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After all that I was sure you would sign your name as Henry, but obviously there was not enough
inductance for you to do so.

Careful, I'm currently on a short fuse. Wire we bantering like this anyway?

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Just zis Guy said:

Careful, I'm currently on a short fuse. Wire we bantering like this anyway?

Don't know about you but for me its because I got a job lot of electrons cheap and I'm trying to
find ways of using them up rather than just let them go to waste ;-)

Tony