View Full Version : The curse of the homeless people....
twotime
09-02-05, 05:59 PM
I work in covent garden, about fifty yards from a homeless hostel. I keep having to 'remove' homeless people from my bike, sitting on it for a relaxing break, flicking all the buttons etc etc.
Just walking back from the shop 5 minutes ago, homeless guy walking in front of me. he stops at my bike, wrenches the mirror round and starts picking something out of his teeth!!!!
So i say "don't touch my bike" he says " i never touched it" i say "i just ****ing saw you" he says "This isn't finished, i'll be back later to do your bike"
now popping out eveyr 30 seconds to make sure it's still there and upright..... maybe time to buy those R&G sliders?
What are you supposed to do with someone who has nothing and doesn't care about anything.... :?
maybe time to park elsewhere....
Carsick
09-02-05, 06:01 PM
move your bike
either that or build some kind of cover out of chicken wire and electrify it.
Gforceuk
09-02-05, 06:05 PM
Move your bike and when you see the guy again ask him for a word down the nearest alley...and paste him .
Carsick
09-02-05, 06:11 PM
Move your bike and when you see the guy again ask him for a word down the nearest alley...and paste him .
of course, gforce isn't suggesting you do anything nasty, just glue him to the wall (and before the misquotes start, I mean, oh, bugger)
Gforceuk
09-02-05, 06:23 PM
lol in an unofficial capacity.. i'd say kick the crap out of him... threatening criminal damage is bad enough... but when its your bike it should be capital punishment.
Biker Biggles
09-02-05, 08:01 PM
I think you are being very unreasonable to this poor unfortunate homeless person.How would you like it if you had been on the road all day with nothing but State handouts and special brew to sustain you if some mean aggressive biker stopped you sitting on a bike that didnt belong to you?Worse still,you cant even pick your teeth after trying to break the mirror.These poor people really deserve a bit of help and encouragment from us more fortunate ones,just before we take them up that alley and teach them a lesson even the special brew wont let them forget. :reaper:
Cloggsy
09-02-05, 08:18 PM
"This isn't finished, i'll be back later to do your bike"
Might it be an idea to park it elsewhere :?:
(I was going to say something much less PC... But I refrained)
Balky001
09-02-05, 09:54 PM
"This isn't finished, i'll be back later to do your bike"
Are you sure he wasn't offering to help you finish some work on your bike - maybe he thought you needed some fairings?
But seriously, he probably not 100% in the head and won't recognise one bike from another. I doubt he'll do anything. But if you want to be on the safe side, next time you see him have a friendly quiet word, try and reason with him, then, after you've done that for 5 or 6 hours without success , move the bike. You're never going to win against someone who has nothing to lose, unless you fancy a bit of physical violence of course.
Jelster
09-02-05, 10:01 PM
he says "This isn't finished, i'll be back later to do your bike"
And you say "Only if you want to meet my mate Barney the baseball bat, who has a particular loathing of lazy lowlife ********s, you know the type, the ones just like you"
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Either a sharp dry slap or one in the belly and a downward spirling punch right between the eyes.
There's a wider issue of people not respecting other people's property. In the 18th and 19th centuries the answer was transportation. Now we tell people who burgle your home how to sue you if they get hurt :roll:
Steve H
10-02-05, 10:58 AM
Burn the Hostel down? Ive never been one to do things by half!
Oh, for all you politically correct people out there, (new Labour!) Lighten up, I am joking... I think. :wink:
chazzyb
10-02-05, 12:51 PM
There's a wider issue of people not respecting other people's property. In the 18th and 19th centuries the answer was transportation. Now we tell people who burgle your home how to sue you if they get hurt :roll:
Trouble is, Australia's now full.
Carsick wrote:-
of course, gforce isn't suggesting you do anything nasty, just glue him to the wall (and before the misquotes start, I mean, oh, just bugger him
:? :shock: :shock: :shock:
you're all missing the point. surely dental hygiene is of the utmost importance to us all? he was merely checking his gnashers for tell tale signs of last nights lamb bhoona. you offered a public service, and you ought to be proud.
It amazes me how people think it's perfectly reasonable to touch people's bikes, even normal people. My wife saw a guy telling his girlfirend to just go ahead and sit on somebody's bike the other day, she was refusing but he kept saying "it's alright, they won't mind".
Personally if i come out and see someone sitting on my bike, then i'll go "let" myself into their car and probably take a p1ss whilst i'm there!! :evil:
Balky001
10-02-05, 02:33 PM
It amazes me how people think it's perfectly reasonable to touch people's bikes, even normal people. My wife saw a guy telling his girlfirend to just go ahead and sit on somebody's bike the other day, she was refusing but he kept saying "it's alright, they won't mind".
Personally if i come out and see someone sitting on my bike, then i'll go "let" myself into their car and probably take a p1ss whilst i'm there!! :evil:
I'd prbably mind but depends what the girl was like :wink:
Steve H
10-02-05, 02:49 PM
:winner:
you're all missing the point. surely dental hygiene is of the utmost importance to us all? he was merely checking his gnashers for tell tale signs of last nights lamb bhoona. you offered a public service, and you ought to be proud.
Agreed. It's impossible to find a NHS dentist these days.
Spiderman
10-02-05, 08:27 PM
Oh the joys of the West End "homeless" drunkard. They give real homeless people a bad name those ones!! :roll:
If you dont park it elsewhere and the dopey drunkard comes back and does do something i'd make sure i did my pre-ride checks. All too easy to let the air out your tyres or mess with your cahin somehow. He might wanna be subtle and not just push it over.
Get a cheapo plastic cover that you can leave at work?
Thrown the bastid in the river? Then he's "homeless" and wet with no place to dry out. Choose a cold night... but not too cold cos he'll get hypothermia and jump the queue into an NHS bed that some old biddy prolly needs more.
Amazing what a cheap cover will stop.......apart from drunks sitting on your bike, can also stop pigeon ****, rain and even dogs ****ing up the front wheel!
Make sure you thread your chain through the cover though as they tend to go walk about if you don't!
Oh and it will also stop ******** BMW riders moving your bike around in the bike park becasue they think they can squeeze their every so small GS1200 into the space next to your bike! Now that really does get on my nerves...FIND ANOTHER PARKING SPACE!!!! :evil:
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