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I know it's wrong, but I'd definitely contribute to buying a few bikes known to be theft targets, sabotaging them in a subtle way (80% swingarm cut from the inside, etc), and leaving them in high theft areas.
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"Huh the swingarm on the new bike we just unloaded is hosed. Weird, oh well"
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Jun 17, 2015 14:46
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I think attaching a claymore trip wire to the front forks of a grom would be more sure and effective. Thanks Minkee. 21 days?! Longer than I expected. I'll keep my patience and follow your advice. In the future, I'll have a lock and cover on it asap. Is lojack any good or worth it for bikes?
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Jun 17, 2015 15:28
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Radbot posted:I know it's wrong, but I'd definitely contribute to buying a few bikes known to be theft targets, sabotaging them in a subtle way (80% swingarm cut from the inside, etc), and leaving them in high theft areas. That was the original intent behind baitcars. They would take a popular car to steal, like an Acura Integra, and fit it with the ability to cut the engine, lock the doors, and keep people inside. When they used these cars in Canada they would just drop off the car somewhere known for autotheft and wait a week before the batteries went dead. However when the cars started getting used in the US, police departments would drive the car to the ghetto, leave the car running with keys in it, door open. Some idiot kids would eventually jump it in it and take off, get locked and busted. To me it felt like the way the cars got used in the US was a trap for young dumb kids taking a car on a joyride, a crime of opportunity. They weren't catching an actual car thief. These cars had the ability to have GPS perimeter to be set for them and once they got out of the perimeter they would call home. I would be for bait bikes tho. Bike with gps locators buried in the frame that you could follow back to the chop shop and with a camera hidden in the instrument area to attempt to get a picture of whole stole the bike.
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Jun 17, 2015 15:47
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There's a fine line between a sting and entrapment.
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Jun 17, 2015 16:24
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Bait cars are light years from entrapment.
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Jun 17, 2015 16:27
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clutchpuck posted:Bait cars are light years from entrapment. Yeah but when the dump the car in front of a group of teens with the door open, keys in it, and the car running, then they're certainly not catching a habitual car thief.
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Jun 17, 2015 16:33
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There was a pretty great TV show in the UK a while back that featured bait cars and bikes that would do ridiculous poo poo like fall apart or lock the doors and fill with foam. One of the bikes had a high pressure foam hose pointed straight up in the middle of the saddle 
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Jun 17, 2015 16:41
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Coredump posted:Yeah but when the dump the car in front of a group of teens with the door open, keys in it, and the car running, then they're certainly not catching a habitual car thief.
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Jun 17, 2015 16:52
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Coredump posted:Yeah but when the dump the car in front of a group of teens with the door open, keys in it, and the car running, then they're certainly not catching a habitual car thief. protip: don't steal cars. hth
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Jun 17, 2015 18:07
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builds character posted:protip: don't steal cars. hth Oh thanks, I didn't know that.
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Jun 17, 2015 19:44
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I'd much rather have the cops focus on pro theft rings rather than someone who's drunk or young and dumb taking advantage of a car that's left running with unlocked doors (because only idiots do that, and I'm not that much of an idiot).
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Jun 17, 2015 19:54
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builds character posted:protip: don't steal cars. hth If you leave your door open with the keys in the ignition then you deserve to lose your car for being a dumbass.
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Jun 17, 2015 22:19
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About a month ago or something I was out with the missus walking through a car park to grab some food, the sun was going down and we saw a black BMW with its lights on, engine still running, windows open, and nobody inside. There was also a a printed piece of paper on the window which stated "This car is being monitored by CCTV", I don't know what the gently caress they were trying to prove besides hogging a car spot; reach inside and find fabulous prizes?
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Jun 17, 2015 22:58
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Super Slash posted:About a month ago or something I was out with the missus walking through a car park to grab some food, the sun was going down and we saw a black BMW with its lights on, engine still running, windows open, and nobody inside. There was a dude who pulled up in front of a grocery store as I was leaving. He just hopped out and left his car running, basically in the pedestrian exit zone/halfway into the fire lane paint. I thought it was a particularly douche move, so I locked his doors and went on my way.
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babyeatingpsychopath posted:There was a dude who pulled up in front of a grocery store as I was leaving. He just hopped out and left his car running, basically in the pedestrian exit zone/halfway into the fire lane paint. I thought it was a particularly douche move, so I locked his doors and went on my way.  This owns. Mind if I....  steal it?
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Yeah that was an inconsiderate place to leave his vehicle, good on you for helping him move it.
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Welp my garage is back up to 2 Buells again. Another Ulysses. Making some cam or rocker noise. Been sitting for 2 solid years, real ugly. Uglier than usual that is. Got a Drummer muffler I kind of want on it.
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Jun 18, 2015 06:39
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clutchpuck posted:Welp my garage is back up to 2 Buells again.
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Jun 18, 2015 15:38
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New record. Three people pulling out in front of me in 60 seconds. (Ok to be fair the second one pulled out on the car in front of me, but I'm counting it since I had to depart my lane to get around her)
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revmoo posted:New record. Three people pulling out in front of me in 60 seconds. (Ok to be fair the second one pulled out on the car in front of me, but I'm counting it since I had to depart my lane to get around her) You just need a louder fan.
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Jun 18, 2015 16:18
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I'm starting to wonder if white was a bad decision of color choice. I mean, I'll be driving along, with my high beams on, doing a SMIDSY maneuver, slowing down 10-15mph under the limit when passing these people, and still yet I get cars pulling out across me once every other mile while I'm in the city. I'm going slow enough that it's not really dangerous, but good god is it loving annoying to have to come to a stop every 2-3 minutes because someone wants to pull out RIGHT WHEN I'M GOING PAST THEM
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Sometimes when I'm a passenger in a car in LA I like to play the "gently caress this stupid city" game. What I do is I look out the window while driving on the highway, and I watch for distracted drivers in the adjacent lane. Obviously cell phones, books, video games, ipads, and laptops all count as distracted driving, but I also count drivers who are eating or holding conversations with passengers that result in them using one or both hands to illustrate their point. (As I see it, when you resort to body language and hand signals while driving you've completely surrendered your attention to the conversation, not the road.) Anyway, my record is 20. 20 distracted drivers in a row.
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Jun 18, 2015 16:42
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21 if you count the fella more focused on other drivers than the road
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Jun 18, 2015 16:55
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Chichevache posted:Sometimes when I'm a passenger in a car... Do passengers count as drivers now? 
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Jun 18, 2015 16:59
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Capitalism has its problems too but, much like distracted driving, is inevitable and will never stop.
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Jun 18, 2015 16:59
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DrakIris posted:Do passengers count as drivers now? I assumed that part was bull so he wouldn't catch poo poo. Distracted driving will stop when cars start driving themselves.
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Jun 18, 2015 17:02
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The self driving car can't get here fast enough.
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nsaP posted:I assumed that part was bull so he wouldn't catch poo poo. It isn't. I don't own a car and driving actually aggravates my back. I have a medical reason for riding motorcycles.  (Also you're still an idiot.]
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Radbot posted:Capitalism has its problems too but, much like distracted driving, is inevitable and will never stop. Until it inevitably crashes because it wasn't watching where it was going. A good analogy.
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Chichevache posted:It isn't. I don't own a car and driving actually aggravates my back. hmmm....the lady doth protest too much
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gently caress me nsaP, really earning that avatar today aren't we?
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Jun 18, 2015 18:00
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As long as he stays in the padded room in the cycle asylum and stops spilling into the real threads I see no problem. Touring bikes are just narrow cars, not 'real' motorcycles.
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Renaissance Robot posted:gently caress me nsaP, really earning that avatar today aren't we? It does make his frantic appeals for people to post in the "weekly riding challenge thread" that much funnier. "Help, I'm an insufferable douche who does everything he can to alienate other riders on this forum! Why won't anyone come post in my thread?!  "Like, maybe if his posts were slightly humorous like this is: DrakIris posted:Do passengers count as drivers now? But instead he just keeps on bungling around, doubling down on his dickhead shtick. (It is a shtick, right? I'd almost feel bad if SA was just the place you went to interact with people because you're this abrasive and insufferable irl.)
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To be fair, I think the constant distracted-driver whining and pervasive judginess here is pretty obnoxious.N is for Nipples posted:Touring bikes are just narrow cars, not 'real' motorcycles. If you have to wear a backpack you have to grow up.
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Chichevache posted:It is a shtick, right? I hope so. I have a pretty grim view of the world but I don't think I could deal with the idea of nsap being more than an internet persona. clutchpuck posted:If you have to wear a backpack you have to grow up. 
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clutchpuck posted:To be fair, I think the constant distracted-driver whining and pervasive judginess here is pretty obnoxious. This is the ranting echo chamber though. I don't know what else you expect.
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Chichevache posted:I don't know what else you expect. Well I don't expect it to stay in this topic, but it'd be nice.
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Chichevache posted:It does make his frantic appeals for people to post in the "weekly riding challenge thread" that much funnier. "Help, I'm an insufferable douche who does everything he can to alienate other riders on this forum! Why won't anyone come post in my thread?! nsaP posted:hmmm....the lady doth protest too much
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