Cyclists be careful

[Rockets]

All, this happened recently on College Road. Be careful, people are targeting bikes:

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/police-officer-attacked-mopeds-bikejacking-incident-b1239794.html?s=09

[Ruskin]

Truly horrific. Being passive or fighting back is what many of us think about by violent theft. 

[labman]

Exactly the same thing happened to me a few years back; they were after my Brompton. Luckily there were only 3 of them so I managed to get away and got a woman to call the police, then they backed off, but not after having hit me in the back of the head first. Police said next time just give them what they want, but I sure as hell wasn't just going to hand over my bike to them!

[Dulwichway]

Sadly, the price we now all pay for becoming a soft apologetic society.

[bonaome]

Yes, because of course there were no violent robberies in the olden days. Pretty much no crime happened at all I believe through the entire Victorian era.

[Dogkennelhillbilly]

16 minutes ago, bonaome said:

 Pretty much no crime happened at all I believe through the entire Victorian era.

That's actually why the Sherlock Holmes stories were so popular. There was so little crime people found it exciting to imagine robberies and murders happening in London.

[Dulwichway]

56 minutes ago, bonaome said:

Yes, because of course there were no violent robberies in the olden days. Pretty much no crime happened at all I believe through the entire Victorian era.

Yes, absolutely! in comparison to now, you are 100% correct!