One of the Ten Commandments (number 11, I think) was to not steal cable tv. #5 or something was about stealing (“coveting”) another’s wife. I think #9 was about kidnapping. And #6 or #8 was about stealing. Pretty much God told the Hebrews to quit fucking around and stop stealing shit.
With this in mind, I had a moral argument and I refuse to admit I’m wrong. Let me tell you my predicament.
This past winter it snowed like a mother. Probably got atleast 100 inches of snow. Shit was real. Outside my apartment are several bike racks. Throughout the entire winter all of these bikes were left out in the snow. Hell, at one point the snow drifts were so high you could barely see the handle bars.
Each bike looked like a person, arms trying to reach above the ground, and pull themselves out of the slow, agonizing suffocation of winter.
At first I wanted to ‘liberate’ a bike for myself. But I decided that was selfish. I have a road bike. It’s a classy baby blue 12-speed. I don’t need a new bike, I love my baby.
But it’s not like the bikes were left out for just one snow fall. They were left out the ENTIRE winter. In multi-feet snow storms. In heavy snow. In down pouring rain. Not once did those bikes move during winter. Left, uncared and unloved by their owners.
I kept my bike inside, cluttering my room, but too important to leave out in the elements (or have stolen by someone).
All I’m asking is this: Can I steal these bikes and give them to poor people? What if I sell them and give the proceeds to charity? In my defense I’m stealing from mainly rich college students who have a disposable income. One who obviously were not taught the value of an expensive bicycle as a child. Does that make me a morally bad person?
On many college campuses, there is a policy that if bikes are left locked up after the school year, the bikes are (presumably) sold to make money and/or for charity. I know they have the legal high ground on this one, but how is what I’m doing really that different? Because if nobody steals their bike they wont learn to treat their shit better, right?
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IronyOnRye
04/27/2011
My bike got jacked once when I was little. Some dudes broke into our shed and stole all 4 bikes and a set of golf clubs. I had forgotten to properly lock up and thus learned a valuable lesson: bitches be cold, mayne.
Therefore if one of those bikes happens to be a fixie, gank that shit.
The Duckman
04/27/2011
My bike got stolen 4 years ago and there isnt a single day I don’t stop at a bike rack and see if a bike has a 1972 Boston Bruins Stanley Cup sticker on the back. Doesn’t matter what city I’m in, I still look.
RIP stolen bike