[real saxophonist]

If you see a homeless guy riding a $4000 Cannondale, he probably didn't buy it at the bike shop.

[Kenny500c]

Stop complaining, snowflake, you are driving a $40k Subaru and you care about a homeless person riding your bike?

[Seruzawa]

Do these people actually ride the bikes or just cruise around in their cars with the bikes on a roof rack? I suspect the latter.

[eyeamok]

Not very progressive of them, I bet most have cars also so having your bicycle borrowed long term by one of the cities precious homeless should be a Badge of Honor they would be Proud to wear.

[freefdny]

Who’s bike. Our bike.

[Vigilanteman]

"I wish there was some way I didn't have to pay to get my own bike back," he said. "People said I shouldn't have done that, but I wanted to keep things calm."

I'm sure the people whose businesses were burned and looted by the BLM/Antifa crowd felt the same way and they weren't even given the option to buy their way out.

[dfwgator]

[CA_soon_gone]

Isn’t possession of stolen property still a crime?

[bwest]

I don’t like cyclists.
I don’t like bums on the street.

I’m torn on this one.

[Hot Tabasco]

Meanwhile, Haun said he had to pay $160 to get his bike back from the man pushing it.

"Give me $10 and the bike as a gift and I won't beat your ass..."

[Berlin_Freeper]

"I would rather have my car stolen than this," said Carter Haun, pointing to his custom mountain bike. "It would be easier to get another car."

I had to buy two handlebars and a seat to get the sizing just right.

[Mr. Rabbit]

This is what you get when you mollycoddle bums and thieves.

[GraceG]

Take a cheap bike,

Saw the frame into chunks, and insert balsa wood dowels in the frame to “re-conect” them back together.

Lock it using super cheap bike lock ( put small tag saying “display Purposes only” )

Setup a trail camera nearby.

Have fun watching the moron try to ride it away after stealing it

[The Antiyuppie]

“Meanwhile, Haun said he had to pay $160 to get his bike back from the man pushing it.”

“I wish there was some way I didn’t have to pay to get my own bike back,” he said. “People said I shouldn’t have done that, but I wanted to keep things calm.”

Whatta snowflake. His fellow bike riders can thank him for demonstrating that bike theft is very profitable and trouble-free.

[The Antiyuppie]

“While DPD said they don’t recommend searching homeless camps because of safety concerns, a growing numbers of bike owners posting on social media say it’s the only way to get property back.”

Maybe the “defund the police” idea isn’t that bad of an idea after all. They can’t actually do anything, mostly because they aren’t allowed to do anything...so why employ them? They could all be replaced with interviewers and clerks for crime victims.

[setter]

“I wish there was some way I didn’t have to pay to get my own bike back,” he said. “People said I shouldn’t have done that, but I wanted to keep things calm.”

The snowflake generation in a nutshell. Afraid to offend anyone.

[MarkL]

This isn't about bicycles, but... I remember reading an article in a British hooligan motorcycle magazine (it might have been "Fast Bikes,") where there was an article about vigilante motorcycle "recovery" gangs in England, because the sheer number of bikes stolen then shipped over to the continent and even overseas is really huge.

They'd set up bikes in a rather out of the way location, with typical bike locks, and be hanging out in a nearly van. Once the bike thieves actually started putting the bike into their van or truck, the "recovery engineers" would stream out of the van and "school" the thieves with tire irons and baseball bats, generally breaking their bones.

After a short time, those neighborhoods would become much safer for motorcycles.

Mark