The Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office is seeking the public’s help identifying an alleged bike thief who, on Wednesday, shoplifted bolt cutters to steal a boy’s e-bike.
And this is why you have to ask a service associate to get bolt cutters from the back storeroom for you at Lowe’s and Home Depot.
More so you don’t use it to break THEIR antitheft inside the store, but yeah.
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Physical security is my biggest concern with my ebike. I wish there was a keyed circuit shutoff or that the computer was removable.
That’s the thing… Even a motorcycle is prone to physical theft, regardless of the safety measures. A couple strong people can lift even bigger bikes.
While the lack of functionality will deter a would be theif, the rest of the parts would probably still fetch a handsome sum.
It’s why I hesitate on an e-bike.
On the newer Bosch ones, the head unit functions as a remote key/killswitch when removed from the bicycle. They’re pretty $$$ though
Yep. This guy is a moron. The cheap and easy thing to do is just steal the $500-1000 battery that’s held in by a shitty key. My bike low jacks itself.
Would to be hard to put a battery kill switch in? Or just unplug it?
The battery is big and heavy, but I think that’s the best option for my bike.
That low-res picture of the suspect is why Walmart has such a problem with theft. Meanwhile, Sam’s Club has 4k cameras on either side of the entrance and the exit. Same parent company.
Walmart doesn’t actually care much about theft. It’s a small percentage of their revenue, despite what they and the media want you to think. An industry lobbying group has recently said shrink is up to 2-3% last year, up from 0.7-1% pre-pandemic. Being a lobbying group, I’m sure those numbers are inflated to further their agenda. Do we really think that an extra 1% shrink is something Walmart is actually going to make massive changes over? No, they’d clearly rather install self checkouts that make it easier to steal so they can fire cashiers instead.
Those cameras are actually to monitor for Union activity.
Poor kid :/
I hope that kid gets locked up. That bike is illegal! Illegal I tell you! The guy just wanted to get it off the streets by probably getting drunk first.
AirTags. My bike has one.
I need more photos of the ebike to help identify it.
This is like one of those one-off scenes from Superstore.
This is why you need a beefy u lock for your expensive bikes.
Stay classy merica
Theft occurs everywhere.
You think this only happens in America?
