The Georgetown Voice had an article about avoiding bike "loss" this week. Let's be clear, if I lock my bike up outside and come out to find it missing - it's not "lost," it's stolen. If I go bike bar hopping, get drunk and forget where I locked my bike up last - then it's lost. If I leave my bike locked to one rack for so long that it's completely looted, it's abandoned.
About three bikes are reported stolen on the Georgetown campus per month.
According to Investigator Donna Shephard of the Department of Public Safety, bikes are stolen from all parts of campus at all times of day.
In contrast, Gary O’Neill, Campus Investigator at the Catholic University of America, said that CUA, in the Brookland neighborhood in Northeast, has not suffered any bike thefts this year.
Gotta love that..."removed in 10 days." Um, started from when?
I suppose that in the majority of "abandonment" cases, it really doesn't matter.
Yeah, that whole "lost" diction thing is hilarious...guess they don't want to spook anyone with the images conjured up by the word "stolen."
Posted by: iconoclasst | October 30, 2006 at 09:34 AM
CUA would probably have more bike thefts if they had better facilities and more people biked. (The new student center has an old lock-your-front-wheel-style-and-lose-your-bike-style rack.) Now muggings, that's another matter...
Posted by: guez | October 30, 2006 at 04:50 PM
At my place of employment, there's been this really old bike docked at the bike racks with a notice attached to it saying that it would be removed if the owner doesn't move it by April 2006.
Posted by: Chris | October 30, 2006 at 05:13 PM