I like this Country, but...

[Cyberman]

Which is a sad indictment on (some) of our fellow citizens.

... and also a sad indictment of lack of sanctions against criminal behaviour. We have no deterrents whatsoever. 'Tough on crime' etc !!

[RichardCranium]

I don't care about the regional differences, I'm just really disappointed that you can't leave your bike unattended without some scum having it away

WHS

[minestrone]

I don't care about the regional differences, I'm just really dissapointed that you can't leave your bike unattended without some scum having it away

I am more upset with the standard of written English from the journalist..

"And according to the figures it seems Liverpool has come top of the honesty table with thieves waiting four hours to steal a bike.

The finding compares to just 17 minutes in London where a bike was stolen in 17 minutes."

I understood what they meant with the first mention of 17 minutes. Maybe they have to write that way with people like CyberTory as readers.

[Peoplesoft bloke]

I am more upset with the standard of written English from the journalist..

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I'm more upset that you can't leave your bike unattended, but the standard of English in all the papers is lamentable.

CyberGit seems to think it's a lack of effective deterents - if that is true and all that would stop theiving is more draconian enforcement, then it's even worse than I thought, because the only thing that's stopping people doing bad stuff is the possibilty of getting caught rather than because stealing is wrong.

[BrilloPad]

One thing I am least proud of is the huge incidence thieving scum -

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...don-worst.html

Not sure I agree with inferences from a stistical sample of 1. Where is our resident expert sasguru (the clever third)? Maybe when he has finished hurling insults riund he might like to comment......

[minestrone]

Not sure I agree with inferences from a stistical sample of 1. Where is our resident expert sasguru (the clever third)? Maybe when he has finished hurling insults riund he might like to comment......

Yes, "according to the research by insurance giant More Than."

If they really are an insurance giant then possibly they could do more than buy 5 bikes and record the time until they get stolen to get a free advert in a national paper.

[Peoplesoft bloke]

Not sure I agree with inferences from a stistical sample of 1. Where is our resident expert sasguru (the clever third)? Maybe when he has finished hurling insults riund he might like to comment......

As I said, I find the regional differences largely irrelevant - it's just a shame you can't leave a bike somewhere without the seeming inevitability of it being nicked.

To borrow someone else's analogy, arguing about which place has the fastest or slowest scrotes is like arguing about whether it's better to have Syphilis or Chlamydia.

[swamp]

All the scousers were down in London that day stealing bikes because they heard that we just leave them lying around unlocked. Meanwhile back in Liverpool they saw the bikes and thought it was too good to be true; they were spooked!

[denver2k]

All the scousers were down in London that day stealing bikes because they heard that we just leave them lying around unlocked. Meanwhile back in Liverpool they saw the bikes and thought it was too good to be true; they were spooked!

[Menelaus]

Not sure I agree with inferences from a stistical sample of 1. Where is our resident expert sasguru (the clever third)? Maybe when he has finished hurling insults riund he might like to comment......

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