Bike Thief

[gollumgollum]

"After years of losing wheels, seats, breaks, skewers, pedals, grips, racks and bikes to thieves, the Neistat Brothers decided to find out first hand just how easy it was to steal a bicycle.

"We used our own bike, lock and tools.

"We set out during rush hour on a Tuesday.

"In New York City."

A brilliant and not-at-all-reassuring video. (

Comments

[coyotewatches]

BWahahahahahahaha!!!

Yet again, more proof that if you act confident and like you know what you are doing, you can accomplish quite a bit.

[gollumgollum]

What's interesting is that, in the first one, he tries looking allllll sketchy...and the woman just stands there and lights her cigarette.

My favorite one is the hammer and spike, of course.

[sarcastibich]

If only it were a railroad spike, huh?

[chilimuffin]

1) tall skinny white guy.

2) he wasn't really acting all that panicky, even in the first one. I mean, not for a city like New York.

If he were a tall black man in Oconomowoc, things probably would've been different.

[gollumgollum]

True dat. He could of at least looked a little more thugly.

[coyotewatches]

Yes....thugly. He looked like a stoner who forgot where he parked his bike and then forgot where he left his keys to the lock.

"Dude, Where's My Bike?"

[saazsea]

LOL! OH MY GOSH! I just about died when Hector stopped to help him!

[unforth]

Yeah, as a native New Yorker, it doesn't surprise me at all that no one gives a damn. If I saw some one doing that, I'd assumed he'd lost his bike keys. No matter what his ethnicity. I mean, I've had to break into a couple of things that belonged to me in the past...he wasn't acting nearly suspiciously enough to draw attention. The only one that I thought would have looked suspicious to me was the thing he plugged in (all the other methods were ones that I think a desperate person could scrounge up...) and that only took like two seconds. ;)
Still, I'll be careful where I leave my bike, if and when I get one... ;) ;)

Hector is in fact the man.