Berlin Bike Thieves Come Out

There's just been an entertaining infuriating article in Exberliner about the life of an expat bike thief. Now if you've ever had a bike stolen and know that sickening feeling of staring at the empty spot where you know you locked your bike, you'll have to read this.
Unfortunately it does little to assuage any liberal or empathic feelings you may once have felt about people being forced into a life of crime by poverty. Basically this guy is a complete wanker.

Except at the very start, I never did it because I needed the money. It’s pocket money: it’s beer, weed, get-hoes money. That’s what it is! Plus, you can’t really do it big in the selling-bikes business.

Needless to say it has sparked a huge controversy about whether he should have been given a voice etc. Also a fair number of readers wrote in to vent their fury - which seems reasonable enough. Except that this bloke has felt the need to write back in the comments to defend his reputation:

our bike got stolen boo hoo bitch buy a car or get a better job or i dont know do whatever to make sure you dont need a fucking bike...buy a real fucking lock for your bike.. stop being cheap pussies hiding behind your keyboards and imagining yourself putting your bitch-made hands on me. you wouldnt put a hand on the police. ive been beaten up by police in the police station in berlin for just trying to get help way before i needed to steal a bike...so fuck anybody who has an idea about anything...your ignorant.. your pussy cats on the street. you wouldnt save a fly from a fog... im happy i could make you stupid fucks feel better about yourselves.

So there we have it. If we have bikes that we don't want stolen we're bourgeois pussies. Mmm.