Cretin(s) strike

[Sniper]

Bugger Mr H. If it makes you feel better, we spend in excess of $7500 per month in fixing our cars that have been vandalised. It seems to be coming a more common form of entertainment amongst the younger dregs of society. We have even resorted to cable tieing the hubcaps on as a wee deterrant.
Unfortunatly even having an alarm on the car these days makes it more exciting for the little malodorous pests.

If only trip guns were legal, losing a leg would teach the little buggers

[oldrider]

Sorry to hear that Hitch, just when you get out and about on your bike again you get a low blow back home! :slap:
Hope your year improves from now on. Cheers John.

[terbang]

Yup its a bitch when someone dings yer car and does a runner. Sorry to hear you got hit twice.
Dunno what the answer is though. As a perspective, I lived in Basel, Switzerland for a while and our first apartment had no parking so we had to use the street with a permit to park on the Blue zone. This also meant I had to park my trusty old bandit on the road outside our building which concerned me. I went to a local bike shop and purchased a decent cover as it was snowing on a regular basis and tried to get a good lock as well. They didn't have any locks in the shop at all and the salesman looked at me as if I was from another planet and said "only about one Motorcycle gets stolen in Switzerland in each year and none in this town". I did notice that there were a lot of bikes sitting on the side of the road with no locks.
Also when I was there they closed down a local Kindergarten because of the noise and it is against the law for a male to piss standing up, during certain hours, when living in a high rise. And everyone has to join the Military and the heroin addicts are paid to stay out of the public eye and it seems that every second citizen must have been a school prefect or similar.
Take yer pick..