That’ll learn her.
Jake writes:
I know you don’t normally do this but my sister’s bike was taken from our front garden in Irishtown [Dublin 4] sometime last night. She brought it back with her from the States and she loved it dearly. Its theft has completely ruined her Friday feeling. The picture is a little unclear but it is a blue Schwinn with a black Brooks saddle. If anyone comes across it we would appreciate a heads up. Thanks.
Anyone?
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I just……I mean……to ruin someones Friday feelin’ like that…
It ain’t right.
+1
Hope yiz get it back
It’s downright unconstitutional.
Overheard in the Iona Institute coffee room as Ben scrolled through Broadsheet earlier…
Women on men’s bikes, FFS, next thing ya know they’ll be marrying women too. Is anything sacred !
Enough.
+1 million, Mani
Won’t be going far…no peddles on that there Schwinn.
Surely a knacker on a fancy racer stands out for the police etc, I’ve seen countless scumbags over the last few weeks flying about on bikes that clearly werent them, maybe it should be mandatory to hold a registration number for a bike on your person and if the police suspect a bike is stolen they can just demand they see the registration card
*there’s
Well, this is awkward.
[their]
Even more awkward [their’s]
Excruciating [weren’t their’s].
Exquisite [theirs]
no apostrope
Thats / That’s funny.
(Thanks, Soundings – I was aware it’s ‘theirs’, but I just helping him out with the expletive / pronoun identifier – “their”. But, of course, you never, ever, ever, ever put an apostrophe after “their”. “Theirs” is the third person plural possessive pronoun. So you’d say, “Are those bikes theirs?” or “We can’t find our bikes, but theirs are locked securely with Mani’s Hindsight 2020.” Usually I charge 75 an hour for this, but you can have it for free).
Don’t have my Fowler’s to hand, but am pretty sure that “their’s” with the apostrophe is correct English, though a quick internet search confirms it is a subject of disharmony, and the preferred (modern) form is without the apostrophe.
Freedictionary for example confirms “their’s” was used in Jane Austen books, though just because the auld bat wrote it that way doesn’t mean it’s correct. Will check Fowler’s though.
Ha! As much as I’d love this, good luck! Anyway, apparently most of the bike being robbed are going overseas. I heard that something in the region of 20,000 bikes were robbed last year, that’s definitely not just toe-rags looking for a new (usually hilariously oversized) bike for themselves.
Maybe if was small anti theft national registration number etched into the underframe linking to database to the rightful owner it would be easier trace these stolen bikes even if they go abroad.
Dublin 4
Ahem
Sorry Frilly, I have to bite.
What are you implying here?
I ask because you have made a few proclamations in the past, based on Dublin Geography, which suggest you don’t know much about Dublin.
See.
Bikes get lifted no matter where they’re left
I love it when they bite
Oh. And a big ück you MSC.
I defended those parts of Dublin that sneery çüñtß like you painted in the “what d’ye expect” brand
Which just proves that I know Dublin better than you think
Irishtown is a hole though.
Irishtown may technically be Dublin 4 but is spiritually East Wall, which goes to show you don’t know Dublin half so well as you like to let on.
irishtown is spiritually east wall? please explain..
*grabs popcorn
I don’t know any neighbourhood of Dublin that collectively have a spiritual belonging to another part of Dublin. Boundaries are held dear.
If I’m proven wrong it will be my education.
*steals a handful of scottser’s popcorn*
maybe there’s a sign in irishtown that says ‘irishtown, twinned spiritually with east wall’. or maybe irishtown hosted east wall during the special olympics?
*dips hoop’s pocket. nicks his lighter but it’s covered in a strange, sticky goo so puts it back.
Maybe East Wall was the only Dublin are to fall to a renegade splinter group of Roman soldiers in AD45, just after the conquest of Britain. A lucky contingent of canny natives managed to escape the Latin guards at nightfall in a massive wooden elephant and sailed for Irishtown.
*scoops up scottser’s cheesy nachos with extra jalapeños while he’s bizarrely pre-occupied with rummaging in some oul fella’s coat pocket*
*wonders why hoop is eating from the cat’s litter tray. moves away with a protective arm over popcorn
what lock were you using?
The Hindsight 3000, beloved of pedantic cyclists everywhere. Works 100% of the time after the bike has been nicked.
Dear OP I have a question, two question, actually. What sort of a pet have you got that the little plump fellow needs steps up to the flower bed? Or are the rocks there for scale?
Maybe Michael D Higgins stole the bike.
What a shifty little elf. He’s like Dudley Moore in Santa Claus The Movie.
Did you bother recording the serial number?
(if not how do you expect to prove it’s actually yours?)
Do you not see the picture and the post on broadsheet, shure that’s proof in the eyes of the law. And the lord.
True Story: I once found my brother’s stolen bike locked to a bike rack on Camden street. It was a pretty distinctive Bianchi that was bought in Sweden. We bought a new lock for it and went to Kevin street Garda station a day or two later to tell them it was his, had been stolen six months before, and that we were going to saw the lock off and reclaim it. We had a load of info including serial no. and Photos. They didn’t even look at them, they just said grand, go ahead. They absolutely don’t care.
You have given me fantastic idea for a new commercial enterprise. Now, who would likd to buy a cheap bicycle?
Crikey, how much import duty did your sister pay? I’m guessing she wouldn’t have had much change out of €500.
Are you suggesting it wasn’t stolen, but, rather, that Revenue seized it?
Gracious no! I’m sure sis declared it and paid the correct import duty upon arrival. Must have been expensive though.
Was it a left hand drive? No too many skobes know how to cycle a yankee bike because of the automatics.
Where did I see a GPS Tracking Dot for bikes recently? Coulda been on Braodsheet or I coulda just dreamed it. Either way, sentimental bikes need more than just a good lock nowadays.
Skobes don’t even know how to turn left – they have to take three rights every time.
Thieving little skobes need more than a smack nowadays too.
Smack is exactly what they require.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2942384/BMWs-Range-Rovers-hundreds-bikes-stolen-suburban-driveways-containers-bound-Kenya-Cyprus.html
Might want to lock those gold bricks away too.
Casually leaving gold ingots like that around in the back yard is very Celtic Tiger