NYC, can’t have anything nice.
07-14-23, 03:28 PM
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If it was indeed a "12 gauge heavy duty hive staple", then I would look for a guy in a beekeepers hat.
07-14-23, 03:50 PM
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"Don't see how this could happen naturally." Welcome to the world of Ripley's Believe It Or Not. That newspaper feature has been going strong for over 100 years, and it hasn't run out of hard-to-believe-it-could-happen-naturally occurrences yet.
Here's my latest. Coming back from a ride about a month ago, I was nearly at my house when I suddenly heard a sharp ticking sound and then the hissing of an almost instantaneous flat. I found some sort of long, nasty-looking textured nail, probably meant for use in concrete work. The nail went through the tire, the outer and inner sides of the tube, and the rim. Took pliers to get it out.
The ticking had been the sound of the nail hitting the brake bridge. If I hadn't seen it, I'd have said it was impossible for a nail to insert itself into a tire at precisely the angle necessary to make it all the way through to the rim.
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Unfortunately the headmaster didn’t believe it!
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07-14-23, 03:58 PM
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So, your reluctance to accept a low-probability event has led you to embrace a lower probability event that involves malice on the part of a total stranger? This is basically a conspiracy theory.
07-14-23, 05:37 PM
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07-14-23, 05:50 PM
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Banned.
i am here to talk about solutions to crime that seems to increase every year. but Karen has no solutions as usual. Karen has no eyes to see or ears to hear, but acts like their non solutions are 'superior' to some one who understands the issue.
so what's next, what possibly could be your solution besides berating someone who has Good Solutions. solutions that have worked but are being discarded.
ask yourself why? go ahead it isn't hard and report back: we wanna know.
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07-14-23, 08:44 PM
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I’m going to pray for you, Duo.
07-14-23, 08:46 PM
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You have provided no solutions to bicycle crime. You have provided nothing useful in this thread. But I’ll continue to pray for you. 🙏
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07-14-23, 08:51 PM
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But, I’ll be open minded, it could be totally random that a car drove by, knocked something into something that had some staples in it, and it flew to the curb and flew into the disc brake hole. That would be something remarkable.
I came here to vent a little. But now I see without a picture it’s not as believable. Eh, oh well.
07-14-23, 08:55 PM
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Banned.
if the solution isn't in The Book, then where is it? still waiting. we can look at California where stores are closing over theft; they wont prosecute under $900 so don't bother to call. or look at down town San Francisco to a city in decline.
we can talk bicycle theft, but that is only one part of this puzzle. at least i offer hope and solutions....what do you have?
07-14-23, 08:56 PM
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Just let it go, man. You be you and let him be him.
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07-15-23, 06:45 AM
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Off track, closed..
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