The curse of the homeless people....

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....

move your bike
either that or build some kind of cover out of chicken wire and electrify it.

Move your bike and when you see the guy again ask him for a word down the nearest alley...and paste him .

Originally Posted by Gforceuk

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)

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]

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.

Originally Posted by twotime

"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]

Originally Posted by twotime

"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.

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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