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Hello everyone,


Just wanted to warn any cyclists that my boyfriend nearly had his bike stolen outside lordship lane co-op about 10 minutes ago. The guy had wire/bolt cutters with him and was attempting to cut through his lock. Luckily he caught him just in time but just wanted to make everyone aware!

Saw him - and the thief who dashed down the road right past me sniggering in broad daylight!!


Sadly on my way back from yoga tonight perhaps an hour later there was a chap standing looking rather despondent over his bike chain that had been cut and bike stolen from around a tree outside the cook shop - so I fear the thief may have passed his misfortune onto someone else in quick succession :(

dulwichhealthmatters Wrote:

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> Town centres should have more CCTV cameras in

> place to help avoid criminal behaviour.

> Fortunately nobody was hurt in this situation.


Britain has over 20% of the world's CCTV cameras. How many do you want?

dulwichhealthmatters Wrote:

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> Town centres should have more CCTV cameras in

> place to help avoid criminal behaviour.

> Fortunately nobody was hurt in this situation.



Town centre? Really?


LL is a high street... no?

The 20% figure is widely quoted in the national press, particularly the Daily Mail and is based in this paper http://www.urbaneye.net/results/ue_wp6.pdf from 2002. However the methodology used in the estimate is largely discredited and the real number at the time as calculated by other bodies was put at about 30% if the number this paper concluded.

dulwichhealthmatters Wrote:

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> Town centres should have more CCTV cameras in

> place to help avoid criminal behaviour.

> Fortunately nobody was hurt in this situation.


You base this on nothing aside from 'this is what I think'. cheers


http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2008/may/06/ukcrime1

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/2071397.stm

"CCTV is no solution. Police patrolling is an actual deterrent."


Really? I take it that you've never actually been a thief?


May I give you absolute assurance that during my teenage years a policeman was a target, not a deterrent.


The idea that a street corner policeman would actually turn up sufficiently quickly to tackle my petty larceny is laughable.

Huguenot Wrote:

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> "CCTV is no solution. Police patrolling is an

> actual deterrent."

>

> Really? I take it that you've never actually been

> a thief?

>

> May I give you absolute assurance that during my

> teenage years a policeman was a target, not a

> deterrent.

>

> The idea that a street corner policeman would

> actually turn up sufficiently quickly to tackle my

> petty larceny is laughable.



You never fail to suprise me Hugo!

Police then might have been targets, but they were the biggest gang in town and operated like that.



Huguenot Wrote:

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> "CCTV is no solution. Police patrolling is an

> actual deterrent."

>

> Really? I take it that you've never actually been

> a thief?

>

> May I give you absolute assurance that during my

> teenage years a policeman was a target, not a

> deterrent.

>

> The idea that a street corner policeman would

> actually turn up sufficiently quickly to tackle my

> petty larceny is laughable.

EDOliver Wrote:

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> Blimey I'm always chaining my (worryingly

> expensive) bike up outside Co-op what did the

> thieving s*** look like so I can keep my eyes

> peeled?

>

> Ta



Hello, I am said boyfriend and feel very lucky that I left the supermarket when I did; 60 seconds later and it would have disappeared. To be honest it was one of those adrenaline-inducing situations that left my memory a bit hazy, I just left the co-op, saw what he was doing and 'saw red' as it were! All I do remember is that he was mixed-race and medium height/build. If anybody else on here saw the incident and could elaborate a little I think that would be helpful.


It's worrying that he had bolt-cutters on him. I would normally expect this situation to occur after a 'spotter' contacts other people with the necessary equipment. I used to have an older, less attractive bike which I always left on various points of Lordship Lane or outside Fusion on Crystal Palace Road without issue. This was the first time I'd left my new, much sexier racer unattended and this is what happens! I won't be doing it again any time soon.

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