[percept]

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8867538

Criminals (in this case bike thieves) just change their tactics:

"He used a limited tool set—generally just wirecutters, a wrench, and a screwdriver—and didn’t like bolt cutters. “You caught with bolt cutters, they charge you with burglary,” he claimed."

[TeMPOraL]

That linked tread is surreal. Some things thieves use:

"Cops found shattered pieces from my U-lock and told me the thief used liquid nitrogen."

"The thief used a portable plasma cutter in broad daylight."

And a comment that's hard to disagree with:

"We used to hang horse theives no reason not to hang bike theives."

[markdown]

> And a comment that's hard to disagree with: > "We used to hang horse theives no reason not to hang bike theives."

Really? You find it hard to disagree with killing a man who steals a bike?... metal and rubber?

[celticninja]

Not to agree with killing someone but a bike is more than metal and rubber. Sometimes it is your method of transport to and from work or other more important things.

[TeMPOraL]

And sometimes it's a gift from your father, a thing you really enjoy using. Sometimes it is your method of spending time with friends.

Sometimes it is the last gift your father ever gave to you.

(No, I'm not injecting any personal bias here at all.)

[TeMPOraL]

No, of course I don't. It was a poorly executed hyperbole on my part.

That said, I believe as a society we should be cracking down much harder on bike thieves.