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    >   Some years ago on the way home I saw a bike chained to a small tree.   
    >   It was there for a couple of weeks then one day a wheel was missing, a   
    > week or so later the other wheel, and over a period of about three months it   
    > was slowly disassembled piece by piece until only the frame was there, that   
    > also disappeared.  :)   
      
   I have heard more tyhan once, that on the outskirts of NYC & LA, if a car   
   breaks down, or you walk to get gas, the car will be stripped of every sellable   
   part in under 15 minutes, bu a small gang of hodlums who hide out of sight,   
   waiting for such opportunities. . .   
      
    >    I've had five bikes stolen on campus over the last 30 years.  Chains   
    > cut, etc.  All one needs is a good bolt cutter and a few seconds.     
      
   Yup -- most park their bikes inside their destination building, especially if   
   one of these newer 4-figure pricetag bikes!   
      
    >   I now have a U-bolt if left outside.  The problem is with those parts not   
    > locked are stolen.   
      
   I've sesen U-bpol;ts & chain setups that pretty much attach every removable   
   part to the post/body   
      
   I'm guessing if left overnight, someone will appear with a blowtorch to cut out   
   some bits. . .   
      
    >   In my younger days (50s and early 60s) I sometimes rode 20 miles or so   
    > just to do it.  But eventually I would make more five minute rest stops than   
    > before.  Not to mention being saddle sore by the end of the ride.   
    >   Our city buses have bike racks (fit two) which I use to ride wherever the   
    > bus stops closest to my destination.  Those really come in handy.   
      
   Ours do, too -- necessary to cross some bridges, as no bikes allowed on the   
   commuter bridges, or gety through the tunnel.   
      
   I'm waiting for the day someone puts an expensive bike in the front rack &   
   someone else jumps off to unsnap & go with it.  . .   
      
   Thieves are getting more & more brazen.   
      
      
   I was so proud of my local Safeway one year.  I was working the Salvaton Arnmy   
   kettle at tjheir one exit/entrance, when I heard roughhousing & saw some youth   
   (teens into 20s) tumble out, wrassling & fighting.  Thenone took off clerar   
   across the patrking lot, only to be tackled (HARD!) by one of the others,   
   sending phone & glasases skittering some distance.  He & another dragged this   
   fallemn one back into the store.  Laster I asked a clerk what was that & they   
   had hired security with take-down privileges that season.  Loved it!   
      
   That kid with the parking lot-raw cheek will think twice next time, I hope!   
      
   & hope he told his friends, so they'll hesitate in future, too. . .   
      
   As it is today, if they get a shoplifter, they take him in back, call the cops,   
   who perp walk him across the front window, to try to shame him(it doesn't) &   
   they just think it's all a big joke/game.   
      
   'tewas better in olden times wshen the shop owner would administer a non-   
   maiming beating to dis-incentivizxe furtger thefts.   
      
   Kid'd go home, crying, explain why, & get another two from dad (1 for the crime   
   & another for embarrassing the family name!)   
      
   Those kids became law abiding for life!   
      
   Your friend,   
      
   <+]:{)}   
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