Thick as Thieves

[bikeworkshop]

Barcons obvs so you are tired off hearing objections to bike thieves? Confused

I'm not tired of hearing objections Bob, I'm building a cartoon image of retrobikers vs criminal gangs.
Tell you what though, I forgot the laughing emoji
I'll edit that in now

...OK done
We are back on the same page.

 

[Guinessisgoodforyou]

I'm not tired of hearing objections Bob, I'm building a cartoon image of retrobikers vs criminal gangs.
Tell you what though, I forgot the laughing emoji
I'll edit that in now

...OK done
We are back on the same page.

Never underestimate your adversary

 

[Laldi]

The bike thieves in my part of South London come on only two varieties

1. The midnight caller. They scope out a bike during the day, and if it's still there when the sun goes down are back with the tools and the angle grinder

2. The time served (mostly in young offenders institution) tooled up mugger. They'll mostly be in alleys or tight corners in pairs, and either try and pull you off the bike, or make a road block. They will have big shiny knives. They are mostly after ebikes, but my mate lost a 3 grand Hetchins to one. They don't wear balaclavas: because they don't give a f#ck. Nowt you can do really but hand it over.

 

[Laldi]

Number 2 are generally daylight operators. But they don't like mornings. They like to get up first thing in the afternoon!

 

[Guinessisgoodforyou]

Hmmmm

 

[Laldi]

Hmmmm

You wait till you're face to face with a tooled up yoof in there need of 200 sovs for his fentanyl.

 

[Guinessisgoodforyou]

You wait till you're face to face with a tooled up yoof in there need of 200 sovs for his fentanyl.

Okay I'll wait.

 

[Tsundere]

You wait till you're face to face with a tooled up yoof in there need of 200 sovs for his fentanyl.

I know a lad who was accosted by two hooded urban yoofs on an e-scooter, the passenger threatened him with a knife and took his bike.
Bye bye £3k

 

[Laldi]

Okay I'll wait.

Fentanyl use is nearing epidemic in Central London, since Afghanistan packed up most of its poppy production (thanks to the Taliban), heroin has been hard to come by, so Fentanyl coming in via China/Turkey/Amsterdam is the fuel of choice. It's replaced heroin about 90/10 in terms of police work. I used to work in Border Force Services, it's just about impossible to stop it coming into the UK, everyone is at it because it's so lucrative.

You might not have to wait that long. Coming to a town near you soon.

 

[Laldi]

I know a lad who was accosted by two hooded urban yoofs on an e-scooter, the passenger threatened him with a knife and took his bike.
Bye bye £3k

I used to see this at least twice a week. Its one of the fastest growing crimes in Britain.