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Cycled down to the town centre this afternoon to get a haircut and go to the bank. I carefully locked the bike to one of the racks at the station, along with another 30-40 already there. I was gone for only about 30 minutes but when I returned some scunner had made off with it. I doubt that I'll see it again, so I can only curse in silence and hope the little weasel falls off it.
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Scrotes indeed: have you told the law? Bear in mind that there is a good chance of CCTV coverage at railway stations, so the scumbag could be caught.
Check your insurance? Some policies do cover bikes as part of the home contents (though it's unlikely they will pay out if it's at a railway station).
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Yep, told the police, and it is on my home insurance, but will cost me my excess and NCD. It's not the value so much as the annoyance of it happening when I am always careful to lock it. And unfortunately all the CCTV is on the town side of the station, where I will always park in future.
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Don't lose hope. Where I live, all second-hand dealers must report everything they buy each day to the police department (I worked on the software). Sellers are required to provide valid ID.
Serial numbers are tracked against stolen good reports. Often, the clueless thieves don't know this until the police show up at their door with a warrant. I had a bike nicked out of my garage. The pawn shop gave it back to me and the perp got 18 months (he had committed other thefts).
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I don't think bike dealers in the UK are that sophisticated: yet. But if it does change hands for money it's unlikely to go through a dealer. Just have to chalk it up to experience.
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It's probably up on FleaBay already...
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Good suggestion, I'll keep my eyes open.
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That is a good idea.
I'm in the market for a bike!
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So's Richard!
Life is like a s**t sandwich; the more bread you have, the less s**t you eat.
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Mate of mine had five grand of bikes nicked out of his garage last week, they cut through high security wire to get them, his bike, another he was building, his two sons', and his wife's.
Probably spotted riding it and followed, no chance of selling them locally.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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Sadly, there are no bike locks that aren't easily defeated. Cables and chains can be cut. U-locks can be broken with a little LIQUID NITROGEN and the tap of a hammer.
The only solution is to have a cheap "beater" bike you use when commuting and you have to leave it somewhere, and keep your nice bicycle for pleasure rides.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Ha, just what my wife said when I told her what happened. 
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There is probably a good chance this was posted here before, since it's from 5 years ago, but, I'm a little slow and just found this today from a link on Twitter. Read the accepted answer for this question. Read the whole thing, it's brilliant!
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1732348/regex-match-open-tags-except-xhtml-self-contained-tags[^]
Any other great answers out there that people know of?
I have always wished for my computer to be as easy to use as my telephone; my wish has come true because I can no longer figure out how to use my telephone - Bjarne Stroustrup
My code has no bugs, it runs exactly as it was written.
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Don't know if that's the greatest answer I've seen on SO, but it's posted by someone who's got a high chance of being a complete jerk in real life.
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Surely it's not one of my posts on SO?
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Hah 
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If Jon Skeet can't do it, then it can't be done.
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I dunno, maybe Chuck Norris could have a crack at it 
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This guy would probably delegate him to do it: 
Peter C.
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It was already mentioned in the comments. "Chuck Norris doesn't parse HTML. When he shows up it parses itself."
The good thing about pessimism is, that you are always either right or pleasently surprised.
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This one[^]
(First code block)
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
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The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
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Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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F*ckin outstanding. 
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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I know of a lot of code that could use that.
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
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The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
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Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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I have to admit, I started to look for the code JUST to see if I could optimize it )))
I think I have a character flaw!
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Rickrolled!
I have always wished for my computer to be as easy to use as my telephone; my wish has come true because I can no longer figure out how to use my telephone - Bjarne Stroustrup
The world is going to laugh at you anyway, might as well crack the 1st joke!
My code has no bugs, it runs exactly as it was written.
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