Beware, your WC GSA is VERY easy to steal.....

[Tarka]

Well said PhaedrusMC.

You might want to post that in the Scotshire forum too.

http://www.ukgser.com/forums/showthread.php/434003-Stolen-GS1150-

 

[littleade]

Sorry but I don't have any sympathy for your mate at all. Bike theft is a well known problem in London and stealing GS/GSAs is big business for the scumbags that do it. I'd have had some sympathy for him if he'd bothered to put a chain on it and some scroat cut it off with a portable disc cutter, but because of your mate's lazy attitude the insurer will now most likely have to pay out as a total loss, increasing the premiums of those who can be bothered.

 

[JJH]

Sorry but I don't have any sympathy for your mate at all. Bike theft is a well known problem in London and stealing GS/GSAs is big business for the scumbags that do it. I'd have had some sympathy for him if he'd bothered to put a chain on it and some scroat cut it off with a portable disc cutter, but because of your mate's lazy attitude the insurer will now most likely have to pay out as a total loss, increasing the premiums of those who can be bothered.

INSURENCE might not pay at all. Small print. JJH

 

[PhaedrusMC]

I'd suspect it was naivety rather than laziness. An absence of the necessary awareness and acceptance of proper security for a desirable and expensive bike.

 

[mrtee43]

Sorry but I don't have any sympathy for your mate at all. Bike theft is a well known problem in London and stealing GS/GSAs is big business for the scumbags that do it. I'd have had some sympathy for him if he'd bothered to put a chain on it and some scroat cut it off with a portable disc cutter, but because of your mate's lazy attitude the insurer will now most likely have to pay out as a total loss, increasing the premiums of those who can be bothered.

This comment sort of infers an acceptance that bike thefts are just something that we have to accept as a modern way of life. Why do we have to accept this ?
If these scumbags were targeted by an undercover operations and punished hard and I mean hard, then maybe these thefts would decrease and eventually stop.

Society is just too soft on criminals these days. I once worked in Mauritania and remember well the time one of the locals who worked on our camp to clean our billets left a note in French. Translated, it asked if they could take an orange out of my fruit bowl. He would not just take it because theft there could be punished by the chopping off of a hand.

 

[cookie]

INSURENCE might not pay at all. Small print. JJH

Am I missing something?

Why are you highlighting your shit spelling?

 

[Wonkey donkey]

I'm trying to understand whats the point of BMW fitting an immobiliser if it doesn't immobilise and allows a scumbag to bypass it within seconds? My understanding of cars is that generally a thief needs the keys as the immobilisers are so good?

 

[Deleted account 181015003]

I'm trying to understand whats the point of BMW fitting an immobiliser if it doesn't immobilise and allows a scumbag to bypass it within seconds? My understanding of cars is that generally a thief needs the keys as the immobilisers are so good?

My thoughts and always a worry of loosing the keys for a modern vehicle no keys no go and a massive bill for new ecu etc.

 

[PhaedrusMC]

This comment sort of infers an acceptance that bike thefts are just something that we have to accept as a modern way of life. Why do we have to accept this ?
If these scumbags were targeted by an undercover operations and punished hard and I mean hard, then maybe these thefts would decrease and eventually stop.

Society is just too soft on criminals these days. I once worked in Mauritania and remember well the time one of the locals who worked on our camp to clean our billets left a note in French. Translated, it asked if they could take an orange out of my fruit bowl. He would not just take it because theft there could be punished by the chopping off of a hand.

Surely in our context here, bike theft is a part of life, rather than a way of life?

All absolutely true - society (or rather The System) has become far to complacent on crime. So it pervades. What reasonable law-abiding tax-paying member of society wouldn't like to see bike theft permanently eliminated, with the welfare & rights of the perps a very distant second priority to the protection of the property, welfare & rights of those law-abiding tax-paying folk?

Till The System's tolerance of crimes like bike theft ends, this is what it is - bike theft is a real fact of life, whether it should be or not. And till then it's up to those who want to ride bikes to take their own measures to protect their obsession (or investment as may be the case) - The System will fail you.

Asking for an orange (presumably from hunger) in order to avoid an amputation is very different to bike theft, which is typically for personal pleasure or gain. I'd be amputating the hands of bike thieves before the hands of hungry guys looking for food. But those bike thieves have their rights...

An immobiliser is fuck all use on a vehicle that - if not properly secured to something immovable - can be lifted into a van.

Cop on lads - lock your bikes to something solid.

 

[JohnnyBoxer]

Did the bike have conventional ignition key or was it keyless?

Good point.......... well made

Maybe a worry

 

[JJH]

Am I missing something?

Why are you highlighting your shit spelling?

Why not? I don't know but every time I type INSURENCE it comes up like dat. JJH

 

[Wapping]

....and hopefully there's a lesson learned.

Probably it will be learned quickest by insurers who, at a flick of an automated switch, will up their premiums to reflect the ease in which owners awesome steeds are being pinched.

 

[JJH]

Am I missing something?

Why are you highlighting your shit spelling?

Why are you highlighting my shit spelling. JJH

 

[Wapping]

This comment sort of infers an acceptance that bike thefts are just something that we have to accept as a modern way of life. Why do we have to accept this ?
If these scumbags were targeted by an undercover operations and punished hard and I mean hard, then maybe these thefts would decrease and eventually stop.

Society is just too soft on criminals these days. I once worked in Mauritania and remember well the time one of the locals who worked on our camp to clean our billets left a note in French. Translated, it asked if they could take an orange out of my fruit bowl. He would not just take it because theft there could be punished by the chopping off of a hand.

Given that the average life expectancy in Mauritania is 60 years, I suspect they have greater things to worry about than the theft of awesome steeds. As does plod here.

 

[JJH]

This comment sort of infers an acceptance that bike thefts are just something that we have to accept as a modern way of life. Why do we have to accept this ?
If these scumbags were targeted by an undercover operations and punished hard and I mean hard, then maybe these thefts would decrease and eventually stop.

Society is just too soft on criminals these days. I once worked in Mauritania and remember well the time one of the locals who worked on our camp to clean our billets left a note in French. Translated, it asked if they could take an orange out of my fruit bowl. He would not just take it because theft there could be punished by the chopping off of a hand.

Mabey chopping off a hand for robbing a bike but an orange? JJH

 

[mrtee43]

Mabey chopping off a hand for robbing a bike but an orange? JJH

I doubt they would chop a hand off for nicking an orange, but the mere knowledge that in their society, that punishment existed, maybe concentrated their minds.

BTW, we used to pass fruit to the local kids on the other side of the camp fence all the time.

 

[Wapping]

BTW, we used to pass fruit to the local kids on the other side of the camp fence all the time.

Go on, admit it, you pelted them with stones really.

 

[(RIP) trickytree]

Think people are missing the really important question here......wtf is Wapping on about with his pound of butter in the fridge?

 

[mrtee43]

Go on, admit it, you pelted them with stones really.

Nope, but it tells me something about you, that you would think and suggest such a thing. Have you been munching on that pound of butter in your fridge ?

 

[WaterMonkey]

I doubt they would chop a hand off for nicking an orange,

Once they've had their hands chopped off all they can steal is doughnuts