Really, there isn’t much intelligent analysis that can be wrung out of this story. But I decided to write about it because it is bloody funny.
Yesterday, the esteemed Tory leader was merrily cycling home when he decided to stop off at a shop on Portobello Road to pick up some nibbles for supper. His first mistake.
Lurking in the shadows was a Labour-voting, Livingstone-loving cycle thief who had Cameron’s flimsy bike chain off in a flash.
As David emerged from the shop sporting his best cycling garms (a pair of Wimbledon-white shorts, ankle-high socks and a cool round neck T) shock horror, the beloved bike was nowhere to be seen.
“To me [the bike] was abolutely priceless”, sobbed Cameron to the Daily Mail today.
Handily, photographers were on hand to document the entire episode: the jubilent looking David swooping down the road on his bike, wind whipping through his hair, to despairing David on his phone reporting the loss of an object he never will regain.
As a self-confessed cynic I ask, does anyone else smell a rat?
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David Cameron should have registered his bike on http://www.immobilise.com This website is free for anyone wishing to register identifiable property including cycles. For the first time we now have a National Property Register (as long as you register the items). There are 22 million items of registered property from 17 million people. When the police check a identifying number if it is registered but not reported as stolen then it wqill give the owners details so they can check the status with them.
You can make your cycle 10 times less likely to be stolen by fitting it with an electronic RFID tag, visit http://www.immobitag.com for a cost of £13.99. The tag is fitted in the frame of the cycle and once in is extremely difficult to rermove. The police in the Uk have 3,500 scanners and there are 35 different locations around the UK where police are involved in cycle theft crime reduction initiatives and have had some impressive results.
There are in excess of 440,000 cycles stolen every year. The police recoved thousands but cannot identify them because the owner doesnt have the details/ no serial num,bers or they have been removed. Tagging vastly improves the rate of identification.
If you need any more information then please make contact via the immobilise website.
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John Macintyre
hmm.. thank you very much. usefull information