What happens to a bike after it gets stolen from the streets of San Francisco? Today Show reporter Jeff Rossen locked up a bait bike to a tree in San Francisco – outfitted with a GPS tracker – and sat in a surveillance van and waited.
Watch the video to see what happens…
Sarah B.
[via SF Citizen]
Awesome.
Great reporting!
Had mine swiped a few months ago, in front of Planet Granite. learned an expensive lesson—get some burly U-locks.
At home I keep it in the garage, lock it to a cinder block as well as run a ten pound weight plate through the u-lock.
. . . and lastly, I feel for you if I ever see my bike, ‘cuase you gonna feel me.
Gotta just shake your head in wonder re. our make up your truth world, where someone shown a film of themselves stealing a bike asks with such conviction what it has to do with them.
SF must be the bike stealing capitol of the world. I’ve seen an owner comes back to 11th Street and Howard to find the bike being hacked with one wheel left remaining after thief stole the rest. At 9th Street and Market, homeless with two or three bikes sitting around. Not sure, if they are waiting for brokers. Someone should invent GPS for bikes, like they do for cars. Some bikes cost over $1000 and you will see homeless people riding them down the road. Half-nots got the halfs. That’s economy.
I recognize that there is utility in having a bike with all the newest features, and there is pride in ownership of something nice, and there may be solutions to keep your bike from getting stolen. All that being said, I have an old and ugly bike :it works fine, it just looks lousy. I do not worry about it being stolen.
Public surveillance cameras would go a long way toward stopping or deterring these thieves.
1729 McKinnon Avenue. I hope the SFPD pursues this.