Never being one to indulge in Schadenfreude, I can’t find it within myself laugh at David Cameron’s misfortune at having his bike stolen from outside Tescos on Portobello Road.
Whatever your political leanings you have to admit that DC seems like a nice guy and in any case nobody deserves to lose their bike like that, especially someone who champions the cyclist’s rights to jump red lights and treat one way signs as a suggestion.
Nonetheless I have to ask, who in their right on mind thinks it’s safe to leave your bike anywhere on Portobello Road, however securely locked?
Now personally I believe that you should be able to leave your cycle unlocked and leaning up against a wall anywhere you damn please without fear of it disappearing, but then I’m somewhat of a naive idealist in that way. As apparently is Mr Cameron. According to reports, he’d “secured” it to nothing more substantial than a bollard, over which the lock was easily lifted.
If I’m in the market tomorrow I’ll try to find the offending bollard. Meanwhile here’s a picture of the scene of the crime.Update: Mr Cameron’s bike has been found, minus a wheel, by the Sunday Mirror, apparently with the help of Ernest Theopole, “Local community elder”. Oddly enough the one time I had my bike stolen, not a single national paper came to my aid.
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