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Dozens of bicycles stolen from city bike-share program
The Baltimore Sun ^
| 5/30/14
| By Carrie Wells
Posted on 05/30/2014 12:32:39 PM PDT by BBell
More than 40 bicycles belonging to Baltimore's Recreation and Parks department for a bike-share program were stolen this week, and the activity has been suspended indefinitely, city officials said.
The bikes, which included children's bikes and adult-size blue beach cruisers, were stolen on Monday during the city's Ride Around the Reservoir program in Druid Hill Park. Recreation and Parks spokeswoman Gwendolyn Chambers said staff had set up the bikes to lend out when a large group of youths began stealing them. One staffer was kicked by a youth, though the injury was not serious, Chambers said.
"We don't want our staff in harm's way so we don't engage in fights with them," Chambers said.
Under the Ride Around program, which began in 2006 and expanded from one day a week to four days a week, people can borrow the bikes and helmets and ride through Druid Hill Park. Similar programs also operate in Carroll Park, Lake Montebello and at City Hall for employees during lunchtime. The program is also part of the city's Camp Baltimore summer camp. All of those programs, which serve about 3,000 people each summer, will be affected by the loss of the bikes, Chambers said.
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TOPICS: Humor; Society
KEYWORDS: baltimore; bicycle; bikes; bikeshare; hood; maryland; thieves; unexpected
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To: MaxMax
It is an old, old park, long named that. After the estate originally there.
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posted on
05/30/2014 1:53:42 PM PDT
by
the OlLine Rebel
(Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Technological progress cannot be legislated.)
To: BBell
Another tree-hugger program fails, big surprise.
To: BBell
This might have worked 50 years ago. Today it's just stupid and foolish.
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posted on
05/30/2014 2:05:52 PM PDT
by
upchuck
(Support ABLE, the Anybody But Lindsey Effort. Yes, we are the ABLE!!)
To: Attention Surplus Disorder
You rote: “I just hope they were $650 fancy bikes instead of $59 WalMart specials.”
A $650 bike is a cheap piece of trash that no self respecting bicyclist would be caught dead on. My cheapest (of 6) bikes is about $1000.00 but they probably average about $4500
No real commuter would EVER use one of these bike share bikes. The are poorly maintained, they don’t fit right, they are not setup right, they are heavy, they are improperly geared. Cyclist look at these things as jokes.
If it isn’t Campagnolo equipped it isn’t worth riding
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posted on
05/30/2014 2:22:34 PM PDT
by
Fai Mao
(Genius at Large)
To: BBell
45
posted on
05/30/2014 2:23:56 PM PDT
by
tflabo
(Truth or Tyranny)
To: Attention Surplus Disorder
I just hope they were $650 fancy bikes instead of $59 WalMart specials.Pikers. Heck, the share a bike program in Austin cost about $1,000 per bike. I'm glad we don't live in that liberal hellhole anymore.
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posted on
05/30/2014 2:31:36 PM PDT
by
Arrowhead1952
(The Second Amendment is NOT about the right to hunt. It IS a right to shoot tyrants.)
To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity
I am on several threads in the last hour, all of which are testament to liberals’ always shooting themselves in the foot. It’s constant Schadenfreude with them!
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posted on
05/30/2014 2:40:16 PM PDT
by
the OlLine Rebel
(Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Technological progress cannot be legislated.)
To: Arrowhead1952
Maryland is THE Freak state. This sort of "program" is typical of soft-headed LIBs who enjoy throwing taxpayer money down "black holes". What a vapid response by the city. These limp-wristed, flaccid, feckless LIBs will have their asses handed to them in many, many ways before total collapse of the city. My advice to residents: Leave while you still are allowed to do so. It IS hopeless.
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posted on
05/30/2014 2:41:52 PM PDT
by
hal ogen
(First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
To: BBell
I live in the suburbs and travel into Baltimore weekly. A few weeks ago I took a picture of a bike that was chained to a sign, but everything other than the frame was taken. What would you do with the seat? Or brake cables? Must have been drug addicts.
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posted on
05/30/2014 2:46:44 PM PDT
by
Vision
(Living in beauty)
To: BBell; Tolerance Sucks Rocks
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posted on
05/30/2014 2:47:56 PM PDT
by
the OlLine Rebel
(Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Technological progress cannot be legislated.)
To: BBell
Yeah,
Well i was taking the bikes and cutting em up and selling the luminum.
But went back to taking and selling man hole covers again instead.
More money.
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posted on
05/30/2014 3:55:06 PM PDT
by
Joe Boucher
((FUBO) obammy lied and lied and lied)
To: BBell
More than 40 bicycles belonging to Baltimore's Recreation and Parks department for a bike-share program were stolen this week, and the activity has been suspended indefinitely, city officials said.I think some metro areas in Oregon and Washington went through this drill, with the same results.
What that definition of insanity again? (rhetorical)
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posted on
05/30/2014 4:00:15 PM PDT
by
Oatka
(This is America. Assimilate or evaporate.)
To: MaxMax
“”Druid Hill Park””
The Baltimorones pronounce it “druidall”...
To: MrB
Oh (blush) I thought you meant me!
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posted on
05/30/2014 5:22:26 PM PDT
by
Shimmer1
(The love that dare not speak its name is now the love that will not shut its *bleeping* mouth)
To: BBell
Even more shocking - nobody put on their bike helmets before riding off into the sunset. Look for lawsuits as soon as a youte cracks his skull open by riding such unsafe transportation.
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posted on
05/30/2014 5:32:34 PM PDT
by
ADemocratNoMore
(Jeepers, Freepers, where'd 'ya get those sleepers?. Pj people, exposing old media's lies.)
To: Attention Surplus Disorder
They were the $59 WM specials, but the city gov’t paid $650 for them
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posted on
05/30/2014 9:03:08 PM PDT
by
Shimmer1
(The love that dare not speak its name is now the love that will not shut its *bleeping* mouth)
To: I want the USA back
Excellent, concise post. Should see it on billboards!
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posted on
05/30/2014 9:06:16 PM PDT
by
Shimmer1
(The love that dare not speak its name is now the love that will not shut its *bleeping* mouth)
To: oh8eleven
Racist stereotype? Facts and figures don’t lie.
Right there is a good, even great, tagline!
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posted on
05/30/2014 9:07:57 PM PDT
by
Shimmer1
(The love that dare not speak its name is now the love that will not shut its *bleeping* mouth)
To: Shimmer1
They were the $59 WM specials, but the city govt paid $650 for them <<<—THAT I can believe.
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posted on
05/30/2014 9:11:17 PM PDT
by
Attention Surplus Disorder
(At no time was the Obama administration aware of what the Obama administration was doing)
To: Sergio
Believe it or not, that is a rough translation of an actual Lakota expression. The Civil War was referred to as the war to free the black white man.
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posted on
05/31/2014 5:06:18 AM PDT
by
Vigilanteman
(Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
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