Last but not least: European Championship of bicycle thieves
The «We Love Cycling» platform is hosting the «2015 European Bike Stealing Championships,» sure to draw some laughs. Which city will produce the European champion in bike theft?
Welovecycling.com is a portal all about bicycles. From Skoda. Bicycles seem to be quite important to the Czech car brand. In Switzerland, for example, it operates the realized by The House Platform Velo.skoda.ch. Two days ago, the European Bike Theft Championship 2015 was published. The theft strongholds of Prague, Amsterdam and Rome compete against each other: An expensive bike is set out as bait and the time is stopped. The poor thieves actually look pretty authentic - which is not necessarily usual for such viral stunts. Perhaps the unwanted attention will teach them a lesson. And otherwise there will be another opportunity in 2016 to prove yourself as a particularly brazen bike thief and bring home the European Championship title. (hae)
Speaking of schadenfreude: This somewhat less sensitive but no less entertaining new video from Brazil shows how you can also teach unteachable bike thieves a lesson:
