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In my student years, we would use a rope with a hook on it and went to fish in the canals for bicycles. If we would find a good one, we put new tires on etc and maybe paint it a little. And in this way we got almost free bikes.

I think it was illegal though. So, there was someone on the lookout. If the police came we would quickly throw them back in the canal and try to act not suspiciously.

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Pixelle@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
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- bestnerd@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Yeah but it doesn’t contribute to the economy, therefore, illegal and protected by police interest.
  
  I’m just new boot goofin, but it’s probably illegal cause of safety. That’s a decent fall and with boats going up and down the canal plus falling into a rusty bike after it’s pulled up is jaw clenching
  
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  - Fried_out_Kombi@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Funny thing is it’s actually bad for the economy at large to needlessly waste money. Money not spent on a new bike is money that could be spent on other things or other investments. But wasting your money is good for certain individuals, i.e., whoever sells you that new thing. We just have an economy structured around all of us acting like crabs in buckets, pulling each other down just to try to get a little bit ahead ourselves. A better economy would be built upon cooperation and efficiency, not mutual sabotage and needless waste.
    
    Parable of the broken window
    
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  - BolexForSoup@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Yeah, I’m all for repurposing other peoples garbage but there are a lot of factors there, most having to do with safety.
    
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  - WoahWoah@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    … did you just make a very subtle tetanus pun? 🤣
    
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  - Shelena@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    They told me it was viewed as stealing the bikes and that that is why it was illegal. We never had any safety incidents as far as I know. We all could swim and there were not that many boats where we did this. Also, it was not that big of a fall if you would fall in. Maybe 2 meters or something?
    
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- Summzashi@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
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  - MaxVoltage@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Europeans idea of danger is hilarious
    
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    PyroNeurosis@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    TIL that UXO is not damgerous in America!
    
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- Shelena@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  I think it would be viewed as stealing the bikes. However, there was no way to give the bikes back to the people that owned them and we were cleaning the canals (we tried to throw anything else we found that was not usable in the trash, if possible). So, it shouldn’t have been illegal.
  
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