How many ways are there to steal a bicycle?

[MattTuck]

This many, apparently.

[jeduardo]

Damn interesting and personally relevant post since last Fri night some jackass permenently "borrowed" my bro's bike Bike was locked on rack inside a staffed parking deck adjacent to his 29th St Apt building.
It was a nice condition early 90s DB Apex (nearly all original) which I had just tuned-up in late March
I was originally, vicariously, pissed-off, but NYC is tough place to keep bikes racked-up (even when locked).
Wonder if our thief is a reader?

Originally Posted by MattTuck

This many, apparently.

[dnades]

Looks like an eye opening book for sure.

[druptight]

It's actually not an instructional book about stealing, it appears.

"In Thirteen Ways to Steal a Bicycle, Stuart Green assesses our current legal framework at a time when our economy increasingly commodifies intangibles and when the means of committing theft and fraud grow ever more sophisticated. Was it theft for the editor of a technology blog to buy a prototype iPhone he allegedly knew had been lost by an Apple engineer in a Silicon Valley bar? Was it theft for doctors to use a patient’s tissue without permission in order to harvest a valuable cell line? For an Internet activist to publish tens of thousands of State Department documents on his Web site?

In this full-scale critique, Green reveals that the last major reforms in Anglophone theft law, which took place almost fifty years ago, flattened moral distinctions, so that the same punishments are now assigned to vastly different offenses. Unreflective of community attitudes toward theft, which favor gradations in blameworthiness according to what is stolen and under what circumstances, and uninfluenced by advancements in criminal law theory, theft law cries out for another reformation—and soon."

[MattTuck]

Yes, I read part of it at the book store last night. It isn't a how to on stealing bikes. That would be hilarious though.

I just thought the title was funny.

I'm going to write a rebuttal book called "13 Ways to Catch a Bicycle Thief"

[druptight]

Originally Posted by MattTuck

I'm going to write a rebuttal book called "13 Ways to Catch a Bicycle Thief"

I like it!

[Fishbike]

Originally Posted by MattTuck

Yes, I read part of it at the book store last night. It isn't a how to on stealing bikes. That would be hilarious though.

I just thought the title was funny.

I'm going to write a rebuttal book called "13 Ways to Catch a Bicycle Thief"

Is reading a book at a bookstore and not buying it stealing?

[mccx]

Originally Posted by Fishbike

Is reading a book at a bookstore and not buying it stealing?

Well you'd have to finish reading this book to know the correct answer to that question wouldn't you? Hmmm, a paradox...

[54ny77]

the only place to have a bike safe in nyc is inside your apartment. literally. beyond that, you're fooling yourself if it's going to survive outside intact, and if you choose to do so, then you aint too smart. best be prepared to say adios to the whole thing or see it picked apart.

even a pal of mine's bike was stolen from inside his high end co-op building's basement storage locker. who dunnit, nobody knew. coulda been someone from bldg. staff, or a wacko resident.