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• Shelena@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  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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    • Summzashi@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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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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• Nerrad@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Why do the Dutch hate bicycles so much?

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  • Chariotwheel@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    • nobody said in Europe, ever

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  • hyves@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Sometimes you just have to feed the canal, you know?

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    • Chariotwheel@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      If amything the Dutch hate water and by natural instinct try to create more land by filling it up.

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• pthaloblue@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  god that kid is excited.

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• betwixthewires@lemmy.basedcount.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Man the dutch have a cool bicycle culture but they litter like it doesn’t matter! This is what it looks like when both of those aspects of their culture come together.

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  • MaxVoltage@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    littering doesnt matter mate. it came from the eartg it literally never left earth 🤔

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    • Microplasticbrain@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      We put dog shit in bags because otherwise dogs cap spread diseases such as worms. Theres too much stupid in this comment for me to unpack.

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    • CouncilOfFriends@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Do you prefer stepping in dog shit?

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    • betwixthewires@lemmy.basedcount.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I’m talking about bicycles in this particular case, and more generally, dutch people drop wrappers and cups on the ground like it’s their civic duty.

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• scarabic@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Do people not have a low cost way to dispose of old bikes? That’s the only reason I can think of for why there are so many bikes in the canal.

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  • Kbin_space_program@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    The most likely answer is crime. Steal a bike, use it for a while, then dump it in a creek/river/ canal.

    Happened all the time in Vancouver until the police stopped investigating pretty crime. Now the homeless thieves just have open chop shops for the stolen bikes out in public.

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    • scarabic@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I considered that… but thought that crime is probably pretty low in Amsterdam. Maybe it’s not.

      But why would you need to hide a stolen bike after using it for a while? Why not just walk away from it?

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• Jaysyn@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  That job looks extremely satisfying.

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• President_Pyrus@feddit.dk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Magnet fishers would be jealous.

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• Polar@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Now imagine jumping in that water before this…

  also I feel like a magnet crane might be ideal to grab the majority, and then go in with the claw after to grab the non-magnetic bikes?

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• Norgur@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Im wondering how they identify where to dig in that mud.

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