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Just got back from court when I saw how this thread has developed.

My point was the prevarication employed to justify stealing.

For me, bikes are almosts sacrosanct. You don't touch another person's bike just as you don't touch another person's spouse.

We have classes of individuals who are employable, at the low end, because they have cheap bikes as a form of transportation. One of the cycling magazines has commented about this growing group of people. Stealing an employed person's form of transportation as you carry around wire cutters is abominable.

Should the kids be exterminated? Of course not, but these kids seem like complete losers. And the bald-faced lie irritated me. Whether they should be prosecuted for petty larceny is a question of efficiency. However their parents should never let them forget it. How did the removal of the bike impact the search?

I suppose I just don't understand theft at all.