Stolen Bike

Behind our apartment there is an alley with back doors from all of the apartments. It is used mostly to take out the trash and store bikes. There are at least twenty bikes back there. The picture below shows only one rack of bikes. There are bikes everywhere in the alley. So you would think that it is a pretty safe place to store a bike.

The alley behind our apartment. It's kind of ghetto.

Turns out that it isn't as safe as I thought. I went down the other day to ride my bike to campus and found only my lock snapped in half and no bike. I was really sad because I really liked my bike and used it all the time to ride to campus or to go on bike rides with Amber.

My broken lock.

I was also confused though. Why was my bike stolen of the almost thirty bikes in the alley? It isn't like my bike was super nice. I got it from Walmart four years ago for just over $100. Who would want to steal a four year old Walmart Bike? There are definitely a lot more expensive bikes in the alley than mine. This is the second time in my life that I have had a bike stolen. The first time was much more traumatic than this one. I had gotten a brand new bike for Christmas when I was about ten. I thought my bike was awesome. Apparently so did somebody else because it disappeared after I had had it for only a couple of months.

Luckily I saw this poster on campus this week so I can go get a cheap used bike on campus next week. I will try to get an old junky one so nobody will want to steal it.