Bike messengers aren't "hipsters." They are bike messengers. They get their own group! Some of what people on this website file under various subcultural groups is sort of telling about how often they get out of the house.
I was a bike messenger, I'll speak authoritatively on the subject; there is no prescribed way to deal with bike theft.
I would like to say that stealing a messenger's bike is considered among messengers more than a petty theft, as thief is taking away the messenger's means of earning a living, and often enough, as this case demonstrates, one's punishment reflects this fact.
However, I'm only assuming these are messengers as the camera man says "That's his work bike." The victim could just be a Chinese food delivery guy, *shrug*.
No, not hipsters. Hipsters would have just milled around whining about it. Plus everyone knows hipsters only work as barristas and thrift store clerks.
as someone who has had 5 bikes stolen from him this is akin to watching porn.
on a side note i know some messengers who caught a guy trying to steal one of their bikes from front of their afterwork bar. they u-locked his neck to a no parking sign and left him there for hours while patrons hocked loogies on him.
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