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Bikeshare Bike Used in Robbery on Capitol Hill
Photo by PoPville flickr user thisisbossi
The Washington Post reports:
“It happened about 7:30 p.m. Tuesday when the victim was in the 700 block of East Capitol Street SE, talking on her phone.
A man rode up, hit her in the face and pedaled away with the device — all without hitting the brakes.”
Category: Bike, Capitol Hill, Crime
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what kind of man hits a woman in the face and steals?
/I hope he gets flattened by a metro bus or is forced to eat Pizza Boli.
Well, unless they bike is stolen too, they may be able to whittle this down to a few dozen male Cabi users that were conceivably in the area. Hope he gets what’s coming to him.
Revoking his CaBi membership?
yeah, i was trying to figure out if the bike was stolen or not. seems like a random getaway choice for a mugger. but what do i know.
You’re banned from this bikeshare! You, and your children, and your children’s children! For three months.
Impressive coordination. Those things handle like tanks.
Yikes! Scary.
I try not to use my iphone in public unless absolutely necessary. Kind of defeats the point of having a cell phone
If you are in a place where you feel it’s not safe to use your phone, it’s probably better to wait. If you get a call in such an area, perhaps try stepping inside a well-lit local business. Sad to say that such precautions are necessary, but such are the times we live in!
This is good to know. I walk along East Cap with my iPod during my workouts at around this time typically. I’ll have to be a little more alert, I guess.
Perfect example of one using a phone (social crutch ) and not paying attention to their surroundings. Things like this will happen more than not when people are not street smart enough to not be engrossed in mindless chatter and texting and not see a man on bicycle riding towards them .
And end almost immediately once carriers begin blocking phones reported stolen.
European countries do it – why can’t we? If you provide the consumer a easy way to look up if a phone is stolen and begin blocking said phones – people will stop stealing them.
I’m more pissed that he was riding on the sidewalk and not in the bike lane
So bizarre. What’s next for this guy? A drive-by in a Zipcar?
Maybe a Segway tour assault.
+1 for being environmentally conscious in criminal activities
This is shameful. Shameful that someone allowed themselves to be robbed by some tool on a CaBi bike. I can walk faster than most of the people riding those bikes.