The people of Boston are no strangers to bike theft. The rise in bike thefts seems to have accelerated over the past few years in Boston. People often complaint about their bikes being stolen from the most common to the most unique places, including their homes, from the driveway, from so called “secure” parking garages and even their balcony’s (can you believe that). In fact there has even been a report of bike theft from the fourth floor.
The point is that bikes theft is a major issue in Boston and the negligence of bike owners does not make the situation any better. This is because many bikes get stolen as they are not locked. Furthermore, bikes are easily stolen from areas that are deemed “secure” by bike owners. A few examples of these so called secure places are considered to be driveways, back yards, balconies, etc. As one does not expect someone to slip a bike from right under their nose, this results in an opportunity for bike theft.
Many people might argue that their bikes got stolen despite being locked, however, what they might not consider is that they probably did not lock their bikes appropriately or should have considered using more secure locks.
While it is hard to predict the motivation of bike thieves, it is considered that drug abuse is the number one reason for such an activity. As bikes can sell up to 10% of their value, they are considered as a more liquid asset for bike thieves than other kinds of vehicles that are tougher to steal. Stolen bikes are unlikely to end up in bike shops and are mainly sold to pawn shops.
While it is evident that bike theft is a Boston pandemic, the question is that what can be done to prevent bike theft. Here are a few tips to help you avoid becoming the next bike theft victim.
1. Always lock your bike to a fixed and unmovable object, such as a rack or parking meter. Make sure that the object is long enough to prevent anyone from lifting your bike over the top of the object.
2. Lock your bike in a public area, preferably where other bikes might also be locked. Avoid dark alleys and other gloomy places.
3. Use the U-lock with a position of your bike frame and wheels for a tighter lock up
4. Position the U-lock in such a way that the keyway is facing the ground, but make sure that you don’t position the lock too close to the ground.
5. Secure your quick-release items with another cable lock.
6. Always lock your bike to another object and not just itself, as this can result in the bike being easily lifted.
7. Avoid locking your bike at the same location all the time, bike thieves may notice your bike.
8. Strictly follow your local bike parking regulations.
9. Check the firmness of your lock before leaving it.
10. Try locking your bike with the combination of a U-lock and a locking cable. This will prolong the required time for a bike thief to steal your bike and make it a less likely target.
Hope the above tips will help you keep your bike secure and safe from prying eyes of the Boston bike thieves.
The social puppet has been released from the persuasive force for two weeks have shaken the pillars of its decision. A few hours to exercise their sovereign power, the puppet walk, feel the loneliness and emptiness nostalgic hands have moved the threads of their function. Your emotions have been altered by Machiavellian rhetoric of the executioners of their prison, and his reason has felt the media boycott of the dialectic to win their approval. While the emotional voter consultation in the recesses of his heart the justification for its action, the rational voter analyze results, compare and rate programs consistent with their existential interests.
The disjunction between emotion and reason as explanatory variables of voting behavior invites criticism to reflect on the strategies of the campaign to touch each fiber, the guided by emotion, and common sense of others, moved by the reason.
Nothing more sensitive than the voice-over of a boy or a girl in the videos of conservative and progressive campaign to get the closeness between political elites and the sovereign people. Through the tender voice of the creature gets to sweeten the bitter speech of the seats and lift the sofa to those citizens who receive a bundle of humanity in the coldness of the ruler.
Fear, for its part, has been the thread played by the left to stop the horses of the punishers. The Doberman in the days of Felipe got open in the heart of the workers ulcer bleeding from Franco’s revenge on the broken ties of family. With that campaign strategy, voter voted emotionally from the wound in order to avoid probable parallels between the Franco democratic right.
In this campaign, once again, has gone out again, as expected, the appeal to fear that both benefit conferred on the left at the time of Gonzalez.
The economic crisis has been the perfect argument to persuade the right common sense of voters who voted outside the heart from the right. The comparison demagogic past with future scenarios is the first economic rabbit right has managed to introduce into the collective ignorance with absurd reduction of the multiple causes of a systemic crisis to the figure of Zapatero. In the land of the blind the one eyed man is king. This sentence contains the key wisdom of the likely victory of the Partido Popular.
Aznar’s Spain, or put another way, the country of cranes and brick. The Spain of joy wires supported by fictitious wealth. The country got unilaterally, despite the rallying cry of the banner, in the dubious war in Iraq, is the promised land of Don Mariano to the collective ignorance.
Don Alfredo has tried to wipe the slate of Zapatero. Yes this board that they have both shared and whose students have seen their parallel explanations. The continuity of Rubalcaba has been, without doubt, the last error of ZP . The detrimental dedazo Alfredo Chacon was the first frog that had to digest the socialist militancy to criticism Kant repeated the famous Jose Maria blue folder. The historical lesson of the failure of Almunia as the second part of Philip, or in other words, the failed formula of continuity did not serve as a warning to the host to move the tab Moncloa successful.
From the deepest reflection is time to look at ourselves and know who we give legitimacy to manage the threads of our function. The loneliness of the voter resides in surrender some of his personal liberty in order to live in a civilized manner and meet the demands of its social contract.
