bike thieves Bicycle thief is spooked by scolding mom voice and immediately returns bike (video) Carla Sinclair

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criminals Beware of robbers offering a hug Allan Rose Hill

law enforcement An escaped convict hid out in a shuttered Circuit City for six months Jason Weisberger

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bikes UK town shopkeepers argue that planned bicycle lane will be a "clear getaway" route for thieves and drug dealers David Pescovitz

san francisco Watch this brazen Walgreens shoplifter fill a garbage bag with stolen stuff and ride a bike out the door David Pescovitz

entrapment Married couple arrested for planting "bait bikes" then beating thieves with baseball bats Mark Frauenfelder

security Sand thieves believed to be behind epidemic of Chinese GPS jamming Cory Doctorow

london London food couriers targeted by motorcycle thieves Rob Beschizza

fake news Queen collapses, Stacy Peterson's body found, Jennifer Aniston's post-divorce hook-ups, and other news that never happened, in this week's fact-challenged tabloids. Peter Sheridan

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Boing Boing Gadgets Crowdfunding a bike-lock that squirts vomit-inducing antipersonnel gas when cut Cory Doctorow

Boing Boing Gadgets Thieves saw through bike-racks, cover the cuts with tape, wait for bikes to be locked to them Cory Doctorow

pratfalls Bike thieves pranked Rob Beschizza