Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!

Another Grumble

When young people (mainly boys ) arrive at a shop on their bicycles they often just dump their bikes flat on the pavement in the shop doorway while they go in to buy their " Boy's Own Paper" or Sherbet Sucker. This means that passers by have to struggle round or over the bikes, blind or partially-sighted people could easily fall over them and parents with a pushchair have a problem. It also argues a lack of respect for the expensive toy which their parents may have struggled to buy.

I have been tempted in the past to fling the bicycle under the wheels of a passing bus but there's never one around when you want one. Confronting the offender has had some success but I'm going to land in trouble one of these days. Education is the answer, but how to do it ?

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Permalink Reply by frank demster on November 13, 2009 at 16:47

The reason they do is to keep an eye on it while they're in the shop. Why they can't just buy a little cheap lock I don't know. I like to stand on the inside of the wheels thus damaging the spokes. Then when they come out of the shop I steal their sweets, or knock their ice creams out of their hands.