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someone should tell her to lock her bike up. if you left your car unlocked with the keys in it and it got stolen four times, i think you'd stop doing that.

she claims she was using high end kryptonite locks with chains....?

either way she seems pretty obtuse when it comes to solutions to problems.

also i carry a steel frame bike up steps every day for a couple years and it hasnt hurt me none. weak!

This article was linked to in the comments and it sounds like more of the same.

DC thieves love the low hanging fruit, if they see CDs in your car they will take them, if your window has a suction cup mark they will steal your GPS. If your bike is in your garage, and every time they go back there is a new one, they will keep coming back to steal your bike!

My house was burglarized last week. If they come back they will find a new alarm system. That is, it should have arrived in the mail today and is waiting on the porch. Hopefully, they don't steal it from there.

Seems everyone commenting on that article is against her, and I can't blame them. There are plenty of solutions that she shouldve persued the second time, not waiting for the 4th to give up.

And the thousands of other bike commuters in DC don't seem to have the same issue.

The article posted by rprake makes one wonder, though. Gargage doors smashed by vans/trucks?

It makes it sound like sometimes bike theft is more territorial than profit-motivated.

Mick

I lock my bikes up inside my house and have been doing so for years. If it's out of sight, it is locked.

Wow...this is really driving home a mental blind spot on my part. I've never even considered locking my bikes inside my house or garage. Makes perfect sense, I just never thought about it.

Guess I'll start locking 'em tonight, and plan for some lock anchor points on that bike storage rack I'm building...

yeah, the only bike i've ever had stolen was stolen out of my friends kitchen in friendship. indoors on the second floor of an apartment building. lame.

lock it up inside, lock it up outside. lock 'em up!

My gf and I both carry our bikes up to our third floor apartment every day. Some times more than once a day even. We do have a basement but it is shared with the folks that live on the other floors and they sometimes dont put the lock back on for hours on end so I dont trust it enough to put my bike down there. Sure it sucks going up all the stairs and takes up room in my place but I know they are safe. It really is not all that bad except when I stub my toe on my bike trying to find the bathroom in the middle of the night.