From the Times UK:
David Cameron has appealed for the return of his bicycle after a thief stole it from outside a supermarket in west London.
The Tory leader, who regularly rode the bike to the House of Commons, had chained it to a bollard while he popped into a Tesco store in Portobello Road to buy some groceries yesterday evening, close to his home in Notting Hill.
The thieves had apparently lifted the bike - and the chain - over the bollard and vanished.
“Someone must have just picked it up and walked off with it,” he told reporters.
I was cycling home and stopped to pick up some things for supper. I chained the bike through the wheel then put it around one of those bollard things.
I don’t mean to beat the guy while he’s down, but putting a chain around such as a bollard isn’t really going to offer much protection from theft, just as that helmet hanging from his handlebars will do little to prevent injury.
For the unfamiliar, these are bollards:
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I don’t mean to beat the guy while he’s down, but putting a chain around such as a bollard isn’t really going to offer much protection from theft, just as that helmet hanging from his handlebars will do little to prevent injury….