There are some low lifes out there.

[Akzle]

No, some people do that for fun!

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[EJK]

What were those blind fuck witnesses at the crash scene standing around and doing?

[strumpet]

Guess the witnesses/helpers were helping the victim, not babysitting the bike. I've had some offs, and the bike has been put on the side of the road with the keys still in it cos I'm considered more important to look after. But fecken hell, you don't expect the bloody bike to go missing in that short time before the Police get there. I hope the feckin low life gets caught, named and shamed.

[5150]

And I thought Hamilton was bad......

[Tigadee]

Yes ,we could make prison a really harsh cheap place like in Thailand or Indonesia, but it looks to me the harsher the prison environment the less socialised people are when they come out. In effect you make the problem worse - they either get socialised to the prison environemt (so don't fear going back), or are so brutalised they just don't fear anything (which is IMHO the cause of some of our violent crime already - being brutalised in the family environment).

Why don't we send school kids to visit a prison that looks like one of those from Thailand or Indonesia and make them think that's what they'll get if they break the law? Right now they know that prison or home detention is a joke. Traumatise/intimidate those young hearts and minds before they turn hard core?

As for being brutalised in the family environment, those who are doing the brutalising should be the ones populating this 'showcase' prison...

What were those blind fuck witnesses at the crash scene standing around and doing?

I was just saying to a fellow rider colleague that if any there were riders, they'd know to move the bike to a safe location and remove the key, as well as care for the fallen rider. Other motorists would only be concerned about the victim...

Was surprised how the bike could still be ridden away... No broken levers or pedals?

[MadDuck]

For those of you on facebook the Avondale Neighbourhood Policing Unit has published the details along with a photo of the bike.

https://www.facebook.com/AvondaleNPT?fref=ts

If you are not then here it is:

We are equally appalled at the behaviour of some people...how low can one go?? Thanks for the feedback asking for the registration number. It is 36ZTH - it's coloured black and silver, and will have crash damage. If you see it being ridden around, call 111 straight away, or if you have information on where it is, call Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111

[MIXONE]

No, some people do that for fun!

Have you cut the poor bastard down yet Stirts?

[iranana]

I would expect that it was nicked by someone with a trailer. After a crash, what happens to the bike? It goes away on a trailer, and that's probably why no one noticed... and you'd have to be pretty dumb to ride around on a bike that's just been crashed... potentially bent forks, handlebars, levers etc... So I would say it's in someone's garage being broken down for parts by now. Anyway, it's horrible that someone would take advantage of a situation like that. Hope someone steals something of theirs the next time they're vulnerable...

[pritch]

And I thought Hamilton was bad......

Hamilton is bad

[pritch]

Why don't we send school kids to visit a prison that looks like one of those from Thailand or Indonesia and make them think that's what they'll get if they break the law?

That wouldn't work. Those places are nicer than the house they live in now.

[Akzle]

Hope someone steals something of theirs the next time they're vulnerable...

yes! An eye for an eye! That will move your society forward!

[SMOKEU]

Yes ,we could make prison a really harsh cheap place like in Thailand or Indonesia, but it looks to me the harsher the prison environment the less socialised people are when they come out. In effect you make the problem worse - they either get socialised to the prison environemt (so don't fear going back), or are so brutalised they just don't fear anything (which is IMHO the cause of some of our violent crime already - being brutalised in the family environment).

So we just let them continue their life of crime, making life hell for all their victims? The real answer is to punish repeat offenders severely enough that they no longer want to offend. Otherwise, some mob justice would work nicely.

[caseye]

No it wouldn't Akzle, least not in the short term.
Butt, in the long run it would because there are still more honest law abiding citizens out there than criminally inclined arseholes and if we did start making sure we took them out of the gene pool as we found them, those left would quickly adapt or simply be removed as they came up.Problem solved.
Having said that, try getting all of the different groups out there to agree that this sort of action needs to be taken and suddenly there'd have to be special pardons for poor downtrodden, badly raised, family violated knuckle draggers who deserve another chance?????? because!
I'm all for an eye for an eye and for one law for all.
Simple really.

[Bikemad]

instead of us all talkin big about what we would do or should happen to the ratbag who did this...........how about someone set up an appeal for the victim so she can get another bike or repair the one stolen...if she gets it back..........i reckon this would be a job best suited to Mom or Caseye maybe.......thoughts people.......

[Bikemad]

ya didn't see that coming eh Mark