Bikeside LA

A few weeks back I wrote about my disdain for vigilante action proposals (1, 2) for dealing with bike thieves.  “MS”, who had just had his bike stolen, disagreed in the comments.  Since then, he found his bike on Craigslist, and worked with LAPD to set up a sting operation:
UPDATE: I found my stolen bike [...]

I took the post I wrote yesterday about the idiocy of vigilante actions against bike thieves, and I posted it on Midnight Ridazz.  I knew I’d get very little love, but since that was the group I most wanted to reach, it made sense to do it.  Feetpower, an anonymous poster laid it down:
im pretty [...]

If you’ve got your ear to the ground in the bike community then you know that a lot of people have had their bikes stolen.  You also might have noticed some people talking about vigilante actions.  Cyclists have been talking about organizing police stings, hunting down bike thieves, tying them up, and beating them up.  [...]