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Stand and Bang!
Locking something that is not yours
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Stand and Bang!
So using your logic, if I bought something online with click and collect and turned up to the store and found it closed for whatever reason, I am allowed to break it to get 'what is mine'?
Honestly, I think the OP just needs to learn a little patience. Unless I missed it above I do not know the reasoning behind needing your bike so urgently that day, and I do not mean to catch the train, I mean the larger picture of the day, but honestly not many things are so important to not wait 5 minutes? If you were late for work let them know the situation and a good employer would understand, if you were late for a friend they would understand too, etc.
At least you didn't admit to criminal damage online for the world to see - that would have really been a bad move.
Honestly, I think the OP just needs to learn a little patience. Unless I missed it above I do not know the reasoning behind needing your bike so urgently that day, and I do not mean to catch the train, I mean the larger picture of the day, but honestly not many things are so important to not wait 5 minutes? If you were late for work let them know the situation and a good employer would understand, if you were late for a friend they would understand too, etc.
At least you didn't admit to criminal damage online for the world to see - that would have really been a bad move.
I was about to ask a question along similar lines
Some random guy has started to lock his bike in my employers shed, we’d like to prank him before telling him it’s private property and to stop using it
Any ideas , ones that are not illegal
Some random guy has started to lock his bike in my employers shed, we’d like to prank him before telling him it’s private property and to stop using it
Any ideas , ones that are not illegal
Caporegime
Just keep letting the tyres down. Jobs a good'un. He'll soon get sick of pumping them up.
- Ridiculous situation, but one based on either: a) lack of common sense or poor planning, b) some need to have the additional lock installed asap as a security measure. Less likely to be c) malice on behalf of the maintenance op.
- Right to be miffed, but from the wording of your interaction with the gardener, you thereafter do yourself no credit and come across like a bell.
- Nobody stole the bike.
- You should be liable for the damage.
whoah...hold on...what did i miss.
love this. guy puts a lock on a door to stop people breaking in and taking bikes, OP had to break in to take his bike because there was a lock on it.
Yeah but everyone in London has this over exaggerated sense of self importance, so they act like missing a train is a big deal, even though they're most likely every 10 minutes
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Sounds eminently fair to me.
What does your Lease / Tenancy Agreement say about the consequences of your causing criminal damage?
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And everyone in Leeds thinks a train every 10 minutes counts as frequent
Soldato
now it's a proper game of Cluedo
It was all fine until this point, where you were massively unreasonable. Just think how all of this hassle could have been avoided by you acting like a human being, accepting that someone had made a mistake, and allowed them 60 seconds to rectify it.
And everyone in Leeds thinks a train every 10 minutes counts as frequent
Hourly trains here, if we're lucky! Once I had to walk home in the snow 15 miles.. ok maybe not
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Classic impatient cyclist, bet you went thru 15 red lights on your way to your destination aswell.
Can the door be re attached with a gucci belt?
Can the door be re attached with a gucci belt?
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Bloke even told you you'd get the key. The correct course of action would've been to wait and then go down the official channels to tear him a new one, sadly not only have you lost this option but you've also made yourself look a tit and caused damage which you're liable for.
As frustrating as it is, you'll need to eat humble pie on this one as these kind of people will make your life hell and enjoy doing it.
As frustrating as it is, you'll need to eat humble pie on this one as these kind of people will make your life hell and enjoy doing it.
Soldato
You were in the right until the gardener offered to go get a key, and you broke the door down anyway. Waiting 5 minutes is not unreasonable. If you were going to be late to catch a train because of it, then you didn't give yourself enough margin for travel time, which is also on you.
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What a shedload of trouble this seems to be...
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Utter waste of police time if they are called to get involved.
Is it not a civil matter anyway?
Is it not a civil matter anyway?
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