You know the ‘big red key’ that the police have for opening doors – it’s not actually a real key.

A key…

The big red key…

4 inch battery grinder. Slitting disc, 30 seconds absolute max time. Id be awsy before the third 9 was dialled. All kit I’ve got in my van. However I’m not a bike thief.

Are you still using a rotory phone then? 30 seconds to press the same number three times 😉

I’m wondering how the op feels this morning now the drinks worn off….

Seriously, you wanted the police to and drill your kick out for you? I’ll try that the next time I’m pissed and can’t find my keys (should be in about 18hrs)

,We buy them that equipment and pay there salaries to boot.As someone who’s gone out of his way to help the police in the past,a little bit of help in a difficult situation would have been nice.But as my mate Ian said,they only care about the rich

We also buy their bog roll for the stations but I dont expect them to come over to my house and wipe my arse for me, despite me being relatively well orff.

If the lock cost £30 and the locksmith £20, that adds up to a £50 loss, not 20. Or am I missing something?

Should I know what this means?

I guess not. 😀 MTFA is the newer name.

Still don’t get it OP, the police aren’t there to help people who’s lock breaks on their bike, even those that sell them stuff.

If the handyman “locksmith” charged £40ph then you want to call an actual Locksmith next time…

If it’s a ‘rough’ town, maybe the boys in blue had higher priorities?

Just because it says ‘Protect and Serve’ on the side of police cars doesn’t mean that doing so is priority for those in command. Sadly.

Just because it says ‘Protect and Serve’ on the side of police cars doesn’t mean that doing so is priority for those in command.

😐

What would the police force cost if they took on this level of “serve” for everybody?

Left my phone on a bus.
Can’t get through to a taxi, need a lift.
Dropped my keys down a drain.

Etc

I think the OP is a millennial and as such just needs some support as he goes through this personal crisis

We got locked out the house. OH is in the polis. She phoned the office to see which locksmith to use. You’d think if they had the ability to unlock it, without damage, they’d at least help one of their own.

Just because it says ‘Protect and Serve’ on the side of police cars

Yo Dre!

What Up?

I got something to say…

Years ago my bike was locked up outside Crawley college. When I came out and tried to undo it, it was completely seized.

I called my brother who brought some bolt cutters out, but these barely scratched my Kryptonite d-lock.

We ended up at the local fire station and asked them if they had something I could borrow. They offered to come out and give me a hand, so we went back to my bike and waited, expecting a smallish support vehicle to turn up.

After about 10 minutes, a full-size fire appliance turned up, fully loaded. They proceeded to use the hydraulic car-opening cutters and managed to break the lock. I thanked them and we went our separate ways.

True story, bro.

What I want to know is, where was your friend Ian was in all this drama ?

Ian was busy hiding the superglue tube after pouring it’s contents into the key slot? 🙂

STWers act like sanctimonious twonks in surprise shocker! Happy Christmas everyone! Being a bit harsh on the OP. I wouldn’t expect the police to physically help, but it makes sense to contact them so they know that he is ‘breaking into’ his own bike (just in case someone is good enough to report a bike being ‘stolen’).

glasgowdan – Member

If the lock cost £30 and the locksmith £20, that adds up to a £50 loss, not 20. Or am I missing something?

So petty. Would it kill you to assume the OP wrote off the cost of the lock? Or did you just want to join in with the bullying 😛 ?

Sometimes the OP deserves it (e.g. Kryton’s recent ‘gross profiteering’ thread was a new high for being a bit deranged) but I think you are being a bit harsh here. Yes, his expectations are a bit much, but give him a break.

I was parked outside a police headquarters!You know,those guys who smash into peoples houses with all the equipment.Asked for help at the desk(little lass from G4S),she rang a Sargent who couldn’t help me.Hope the same happens to him or his family one dark night in the cold and dam

You hope the sargent and her or his family break the key in their bike locks? That’s an odd and very specific bit of nastiness thing to hope for 🙂

I’m completely at a loss at what the OP expected the police to do?

I was outside a fire station one day and didn’t have a lighter for my cigarette. No one in the station could help me out…WTF? They deal with fire all day long 🙄

My car broke down and the police did nothing to help (this is actually a lie, the one time my car broke down and a police vehicle did come past they pulled up behind with their flashing lights to make it a bit safer and checked if I was OK – but that’s probably because they had blue flashing lights and the ability to help me by calling out a breakdown truck if I didn’t have a phone etc, rather than because they had a full set of garage equipment in the back of their car).

They are a mixed bunch, but the OP’s moan seems borne more of frustration than any realistic expectation that they should be able to deal with this.

Took half an hour for the locksmith to break open the thing.Hacksaws and bolt cutters were no good we needed to use his power drill.Anyway,what’s all this media bullshit about bikes that are locked are still easy to steal

I’ve arrested bike thieves with bolt-croppers so long they tie them round their neck and they have to hide the jaws in their baggy tracky bottoms. Make mincemeat of every D-lock out there. This

indeed. Thieves are in a hurry and don’t care whether they damage the bike whatever its locked to.

helps immensely.

I was parked outside a police headquarters!You know,those guys who smash into peoples houses with all the equipment.Asked for help at the desk(little lass from G4S

No ‘operational’ or deployable officers at our force HQ and no equipment either, it’s basically an admin centre. Civilian contractor on front desk – that’s cutbacks and why they haven’t got spare coppers sitting around waiting to bail out people who can’t use WD40.

As for the police in there nice warm office, I won’t be helping them in future.

you’re right, we’re all lazy with no empathy 🙄

http://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/found-cannondale-jekyll-2-oxfordshire

but it makes sense to contact them so they know that he is ‘breaking into’ his own bike

completely agree and we get this regularly in the city centre.

What would the police force cost if they took on this level of “serve” for everybody?

Left my phone on a bus.
Can’t get through to a taxi, need a lift.
Dropped my keys down a drain.

Are you my son? 🙂

What would the police force cost if they took on this level of “serve” for everybody?
Left my phone on a bus.
Can’t get through to a taxi, need a lift.
Dropped my keys down a drain.

My daughter has had assistance from a police officer with numerous incidents of this type of halfwittery.

Hardly equivalent gt.

angeldust – Member
glasgowdan – Member
If the lock cost £30 and the locksmith £20, that adds up to a £50 loss, not 20. Or am I missing something?

So petty. Would it kill you to assume the OP wrote off the cost of the lock? Or did you just want to join in with the bullying ?

Plus the cost of the replacement lock 😉

So petty. Would it kill you to assume the OP wrote off the cost of the lock? Or did you just want to join in with the bullying ?

Is calling someone out for being daft enough to think the police were in a position to carry out the duties of a locksmith bullying now? **** me there are some sensitive souls here.

Would it be over the line to point out that even if they did have the equipment and manning to address the OP’s problem their public liability insurance wouldn’t cover them for any damage made to the bike in the removal of the lock? Going by the attitudes of some I think they would be making the right call to avoid that one like the plague.

Plus the cost of the replacement lock

Ah, the logic of a swindler. (-: He’s either out of pocket for the new lock, or for the old one, depending on your point of view. Ie, he will still have a lock.

If it had been a colleague in my position, I wonder if they would have helped then?I think we know the answer.As SQ points out above best not to help folks in difficulty,there might be legal implications.God help us,a nation of yankeefied moneygrubbing selfish asshats.Oh sorry that’s allegedly isn’t it.

If it had been a colleague in my position, I wonder if they would have helped then?

How?

What is it that you expected them to do?

AFAIK the Police don’t keep a full set of power tools under their desk? Unless somebody in the know could say otherwise?

AFAIK the Police don’t keep a full set of power tools under their desk? Unless somebody in the know could say otherwise?

The door breakers with the power tools are normally OSU or Tactical Support or whatever they are called this year. They often base out of different stations due to the kit they have and need storage so most likely nothing more than a multi tool knocking about on someones belt in the station.

Notwithstanding that only specialist teams have them, none of the door opening kit will break open a padlock or cut through a bike chain.

If it had been a colleague in my position, I wonder if they would have helped then?I think we know the answer.

It wouldn’t change the functionality of the kit would it. The only difference is, they’re probably polite enough not to rip the piss out of you for doing it. Politeness that would not be afforded to a colleague in that situation.

Think you might be wasting your breath tga, he didn’t get your little joke about your daughter either 😉

I know, but I like to give everyone a second chance 😀