Spares or Repairs? Really?

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Brighton in the 1990s. A friend locked his top end bike onto a railing and popped into a shop for a few minutes. He came out to find a guy hacking through the top tube with a saw. ‘That’s my bike!’ He said. Very threateningly, the hacksaw guy said ‘well you can F... off because it’s my bike now...’. Pre-mobile phones....so he stepped back and hacksaw guy kept on hacking. Not clear on the options, friend found a public phone to get hold of the police, but bike was gone when he got back to it.