Monday, January 29, 2007

Puny mortal, your feeble devices cannot stop ME!
Outrage noticed and scheduled for inclusion in Igor’s rants at 20:59. 1 comment.
Tags: bike lock, boltcutters, cut, kingsland road, lock, london, property is theft, shoreditch, thieves, thieving bastards
Puny mortal, your feeble devices cannot stop ME!
As Proudhon put it, "property is theft, so I'm nicking your mountain bike".

OK, I paraphrase - he was actually talking about the keys for the bedsits for which he was the property manager, and the fact that the people who built these bijoux spaces kept nicking said keys so that they could sneak in at night and really assert their natural rights of property on them, not mountain bikes - they didn't have mountain bikes back then. In fact the stupid penny farthing didn't even dare show its stupid face 'til about 30 years later than when Proudhon was moaning on about how bleeding unfair it all was, so never mind how visionary he might have been, he couldn't possibly have been complaining about people nicking bikes of any description really. Well, not proper ones with pedals and cranks and that.

OK, not really; I don't know whether this was a mountain bike that was nicked. Mind you, it probably was, because it seems to be the law that anyone riding bikes in London has to ride a mountain bike. 'Specially the ones with the big thick tyres and the bouncy suspensions, 'cos they're really good for slamming into the Olympian 6-inch kerbs on our treacherous city roads.

Anyway. Thieving bastards.

Comments

  • “darren brooker” made the following comment at 3:56pm on June 2nd 2007:
    at least the theiving crackheads who were legging it up to the grimy estates of camden to swap their booty for a couple of rocks were thoughful enough to leave behind some trace of evidence...when my beloved cannodale was kindly traded on my behalf for a bag of gack there was nothing so reasurring left for me. thoughtless theiving gypsy scum.

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