The Bicycle Thief
"I can sell anything, I can sell
stink off shit and a hump off a camel"
Coming up to a
mass pile of bikes, we talked to a bike rider that also doubled as
this downtown hotels bike watchman, he claims to charge $10 a night
to protect them from theft. Seeing as he also doubles as the main
bike thief in the area, he gave very detailed descriptions on how to
break various locks, which he classifies as "stupid vs good"
locks. He gets requests for bikes, usually a Schwinn or Mongoose, and
then he tries to track one down. He says he can sell anything but
that lately the police have been cracking down on bike sales, asking
for sales receipts and paperwork. Though he takes bikes he still
finds it wrong that up to 20 bikes will be chained up to one street
light, he thinks the city should install proper bike racks on the
street. He's had his own bike stolen once, when he left it in a car
that got towed. His worst experience was ending up in jail for an
arrest warrant when the police caught him riding against the flow of
traffic. "The city needs to put some bike racks down here!"
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