# Bunker full of 1,000 bikes. WTF? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 19, 2017, 5:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bunker-full-of-1-000-bikes-wtf/802055 "2017-11-19T05:27:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2017, 5:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bunker-full-of-1-000-bikes-wtf/802055/1 "2017-11-19T05:27:46Z")
[http://beta.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-oc-homeless-found-20171118-story.html#nt=tertiarynavbar](http://beta.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-oc-homeless-found-20171118-story.html#nt=tertiarynavbar) This is the strangest thing I’ve ever read. Homeless encampment with an underground bunker full of 1,000 bikes. 😕 There has got to be a good story behind this. One incredibly prolific thief? An organized gang? I mean, really. WTF? And to what end? 😕 The world is strange, man. ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2017, 5:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bunker-full-of-1-000-bikes-wtf/802055/2 "2017-11-19T05:35:36Z")
I’d guess a compulsive hoarder fixated on bikes. He must have taken every abandoned bike he came across. Stole some too. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Nylock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/77aa72/32.png) [@Mr.Nylock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Nylock)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2017, 5:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bunker-full-of-1-000-bikes-wtf/802055/3 "2017-11-19T05:37:51Z")
When the apocalypse comes, you can never have too many bikes. Or cats. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2017, 5:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bunker-full-of-1-000-bikes-wtf/802055/4 "2017-11-19T05:43:51Z")
Some crooked bike store owner giving some homeless people beer money for every bike taken out of circulation. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2017, 6:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bunker-full-of-1-000-bikes-wtf/802055/5 "2017-11-19T06:04:50Z")
I’m wondering if there was some guy in the encampment who’d walk somewhere every day, and when it was time to come home he’d steal a bike. ---
**Author:** ![Go\_Arachnid\_Laser\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b2d939/32.png) [@Go\_Arachnid\_Laser\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Go_Arachnid_Laser_1)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2017, 6:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bunker-full-of-1-000-bikes-wtf/802055/6 "2017-11-19T06:45:55Z")
Well? Where do YOU store your thousand bikes? ---
**Author:** ![coffeecat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/coffeecat/32/3405_2.png) [@coffeecat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/coffeecat)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2017, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bunker-full-of-1-000-bikes-wtf/802055/7 "2017-11-19T19:04:53Z")
> [@Mr.Nylock](#): > > When the apocalypse comes, you can never have too many bikes. Or cats. Now I’m imagining cats riding bicycles. Don’t ask me how. Short legs are a curse. ---
**Author:** ![madsircool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madsircool/32/3432_2.png) [@madsircool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madsircool)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2017, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bunker-full-of-1-000-bikes-wtf/802055/8 "2017-11-19T19:17:12Z")
> [@Go\_Arachnid\_Laser](#): > > Well? Where do YOU store your thousand bikes? The homeless encampment was along an urban river/bike trail. There was a thread of vegetation along the concrete bedded river and apartments and houses surrounding. They found a drainage tunnel to store them. Someone else had dug a burrow big enough for a man to stand up in. There they found a 367 magnum. This was the homeless version of organized crime. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2017, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bunker-full-of-1-000-bikes-wtf/802055/9 "2017-11-19T19:21:04Z")
> [@coffeecat](#): > > Now I’m imagining cats riding bicycles. Don’t ask me how. Short legs are a curse. Only, cats tend to ride [invisible bicycles](http://www.thedistractionnetwork.com/images/smart-cat-pics-139.jpg). There are [exceptions](http://forums.mtbr.com/attachments/colorado-front-range/811581d1372363203-boulder-bait-bikes-bike-thief-justice-cat-bicycle.jpg). ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2017, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bunker-full-of-1-000-bikes-wtf/802055/10 "2017-11-19T19:27:41Z")
Clearly preparing to battle forces of enemy knights like in _A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court_. ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2017, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bunker-full-of-1-000-bikes-wtf/802055/11 "2017-11-19T19:43:12Z")
Did the homeless camp have a lot of fat-bottom girls? ---
**Author:** ![hogarth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hogarth/32/1773_2.png) [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2017, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bunker-full-of-1-000-bikes-wtf/802055/12 "2017-11-19T19:48:08Z")
Pfft. That’s pretty good, but he’s no [Igor Kenk](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2008/aug/26/canada) ---
**Author:** ![madsircool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madsircool/32/3432_2.png) [@madsircool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madsircool)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2017, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bunker-full-of-1-000-bikes-wtf/802055/13 "2017-11-19T19:56:32Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > Did the homeless camp have a lot of fat-bottom girls? Homeless? Check Fat? Check Girls? Check Hot fat-bottomed girls? Doubtful 😛 ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2017, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bunker-full-of-1-000-bikes-wtf/802055/14 "2017-11-19T20:54:20Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > Did the homeless camp have a lot of fat-bottom girls? Sure, they were planning to hold a bicycle race on Freddie Mercury’s birthday. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Melbourne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b5e925/32.png) [@Melbourne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Melbourne)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2017, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bunker-full-of-1-000-bikes-wtf/802055/15 "2017-11-19T22:31:17Z")
If I take the train to work, I ride past a fneced lot with about that many bikes. No real idea, but I assume they are part of some kind of recycling scheme. And a smaller lot in Tokyo, where I thought that perhaps it was an impounded vehicle lot (since disposal is difficult in Tokyo, residents some times resort to abandoment). ---
**Author:** ![thelurkinghorror](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7c8e57/32.png) [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2017, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bunker-full-of-1-000-bikes-wtf/802055/16 "2017-11-19T23:28:44Z")
Reminds me of the Burning Man bikeocalypse > **[Thousands of Abandoned Burning Man Bikes Saved From Dump](https://www.sfweekly.com/archives/thousands-of-abandoned-burning-man-bikes-saved-from-dump/article_fca7c8ac-0576-52ec-9df9-3cf98f7986b8.html)** > > This year, Burning Man organizers were stuck with 3,000-4,000 bikes — double the usual amount. Maybe they only _appeared_ homeless. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2017, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bunker-full-of-1-000-bikes-wtf/802055/17 "2017-11-19T23:34:14Z")
> [@thelurkinghorror](#): > > Reminds me of the Burning Man bikeocalypse > [Thousands of Abandoned Burning Man Bikes Saved From Dump](http://www.sfweekly.com/news/thousands-of-abandoned-burning-man-bikes-saved-from-dump/) > > Maybe they only _appeared_ homeless. Hey! Burning Man attendees don’t look homeless! They look post-apocalyptic ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2017, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bunker-full-of-1-000-bikes-wtf/802055/18 "2017-11-20T00:49:34Z")
I wonder if anyone knows where their spokesman is. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2017, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bunker-full-of-1-000-bikes-wtf/802055/19 "2017-11-20T02:20:01Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > I’m wondering if there was some guy in the encampment who’d walk somewhere every day, and when it was time to come home he’d steal a bike. > [@madsircool](#): > > The homeless encampment was along an urban river/bike trail. There was a thread of vegetation along the concrete bedded river and apartments and houses surrounding. They found a drainage tunnel to store them. Someone else had dug a burrow big enough for a man to stand up in. There they found a 367 magnum. This was the homeless version of organized crime. Putting these two ideas together, the find of 1,000 bicycles was interesting in a fun way. The impending find of the remains of the 1,000 freshly mugged and killed former bike owners will be interesting in an un-fun way. LA. Keepin’ it strange since before I lived there. ---
**Author:** ![guizot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guizot/32/3636_2.png) [@guizot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/guizot)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2017, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bunker-full-of-1-000-bikes-wtf/802055/20 "2017-11-20T02:42:49Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > LA. Keepin’ it strange since before I lived there. Just to be clear, this was not L.A., but Orange County, which probably explains a lot. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bunker-full-of-1-000-bikes-wtf/802055.md?page=2)