[Leaning Right]

I had to look it up. A Divvy bike is evidently a Chicago public-use bike. Some are manual. Some are electric. You can rent one at hundreds of locations around the city.

I do wonder how the thieves get their bikes. Perhaps they use a stolen credit card. Perhaps they just break the locking device.

Anyway, it’s nice to see that the thieves are going green. Manual bike or electric, either choice will help save the Erf.

[kiryandil]

Unfortunately, ChiCongo discourages The Beechnut Cure.

[TangoLimaSierra]

""Hopefully they stop, or if they are listening, then please stop. There are other ways to make money," Wong said."

Wow, I think he has found the way to stop crime.

[Leaning Right]

My cat just informed me that I should not have used the word “manual” when describing one of the bike types. “Foot-powered” would have been better.

Mr. Whiskers is quite fussy. But he’s usually right.

[Lurker]

We live in the west burbs of Chicago and it’s my personal policy that I never go any unarmed. While local I usually carry a sub compact pistol chambered in .45. This weekend we had occasion to be in Wicker Park in the north side.

I carried a full size 9mm pistol and 2 spare 15 round magazines.

Yep, that’s my policy.

L

[Magnum44]

[PGR88]

What’s ironic is that much of our woke/tech/phone-app/green “innovation” depends on high levels of social trust.

Want to book an unsupervised, communal bike, with a phone app, use it for 1 hour, and return it unbroken to a distant point, for someone else to use?

Well, ALL the players and all the nodes of that system must be “honest players,” must be responsible, relatively high IQ, etc...

A few bad actors acting purely selfishly, or irrationally, or against the system itself - can easily destroy the system for everyone.

[GOPJ]

A Divvy bike is evidently a Chicago public-use bike.

Chicago where everything is done to help criminals be criminals... what a hellhole.

[ladyjane]

In many cities the public bikes are free if you return them to a meter within an hour or two. Maybe they can use their EBT cards to pay the security deposit and then it’s returned when they return the bike somewhere.

[Right Brother]

"Investigators said the group is made up of two to four male suspects believed to be between 15 and 25 years old. They were seen wearing dark hooded sweatshirts, dark jeans and black ski masks".

Something seems to be missing from that description.

[Do_Tar]

If you’re a ember of a privileged class a Divvy Bike membership is $5/year. Then you get special rates on the bikes.

Classic bikes: Unlimited free unlocks, $0.05/minute after 45 minutes
Ebikes: Unlimited free unlocks, $0.05/minute
Scooters: Unlimited free unlocks, $0.10/minute