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Thursday, February 28, 2008

The lowest of low bike thiefs


The British are so cute. Not a day goes by when one of their daily newspapers doesn't report a stolen bicycle or an accident involving a child or an effort of the local constabulary to make the world a safer and more pleasant place for cyclists.

Today, the Daily Express reports that 84-year-old Suffolk cyclist Olive Pollard has been riding the same Raleigh mixte for 70 years. And yesterday, for the first time in seven decades she forgot to lock her bike and it was stolen from the front of a friend's cottage. (With a bike like that, I'd look first at the British National Museum!)

We'll keep tabs on Olive, but we've already started a pool: I figure it should be less than 12 hours before we hear that someone has donated a suitable replacement.

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