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Thursday, September 6, 2007

Smart in school, dumb at the bike rack


To professional bike thieves, "back to school" means shopping spree. It seems that every summer, the nation's collegians forget everything they learned the previous year about locking their bikes.

At the University of Minnesota, though, the nanny state is actually working. The U's police department has cut the rate down from a peak of about 600 stolen bikes per year to more like 200.

Still, the new year has started out with a bang: 93 bikes have already been stolen.


Of the 93 bikes stolen this year, 73 percent had only a cable or chain lock cut. An additional 19 percent were not locked at all, police said.



Almost one in five were not locked at all? It's a good thing these people are in school, because there's plenty of room in their heads.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

That's got to be the calendar year, right, not the school year. Certainly it hasn't been 93 in three days!