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Iceland’s ‘bike whisperer’: the vigilante who finds stolen bicycles – and helps thieves change
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 25 Dec 2023
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Neat. Good that he’s helping people get their bikes back as well as the thieves. Though I reckon this works better when it’s an inherently smaller community like this.
He’s definitely got a nicer approach to bike theft than I would. I’ve had a bicycle stolen and would happily feed the thief to a woodchipper to be honest.
Yeah, we have no shortage of bicycles which leads to a whole different stance on bike theft.
Theft is also a given if you live in one of the larger cities, which leads to culture shock for those from the countryside. Not chaining your bike down to something firmly attached to the ground is a surefire way to get it stolen.
It leads to these interesting stances people have where buying a cheap second-hand (often stolen) bicycle that looks like it has been through hell for €50 is usually considered the best way to prevent theft.
Thieves usually have the audacity to take an angle grinder to your lock in broad daylight because they're counting on the fact that everyone will assume they are the owner and they've lost their keys.
Since the bicycle is usually the most efficient form of transportation, getting your bike stolen requires you to improvise and fall back on public transport or walk home. Which is why, in the moment, you'll be likely to commit murder if the thief was still around. Getting fed to a woodchipper is probably the least horrible way I would end you if you made me walk home in a bad mood.