March 19, 2005
Crime
There were 2.2 robberies per 100,000 people in Norwich in 2003/2004. The national average is 1.4. What's more sinister is googling for crime statistics norwich would seem to suggest these crimes are carried out by skiing dancers...
The economics of cycle theft are just horrible. A new wheel costs £40, a new bike costs £50, and my insurance excess is £100. I'm going to end up accumulating lots of bike frames - there's now two incomplete bikes in the cupboard, sadly without enough parts between them to make a new one.
Maybe I need to buy a ridiculously expensive bike (perhaps with those £250 gears), then at least I can claim a significant proportion of the cost of it if it gets stolen.
I'll save the rant about how insurance is a twisted game for another day. Suffice it to say that what I wanted to do to the thief in my moment of incandescent rage last night is about half of what I want to do on an average day to the institutionalised thievery that is the insurance industry ...
*Sigh*
Posted by savs at March 19, 2005 10:23 AM