Shit-goblins with no respect for other peoples' property

Jesus Christ. I just stepped out for a cigarette and I noticed that one of the bikes on the rack outside, though it had its front tire and frame locked to the rack, had its rear wheel removed. I’ve never seen this bike off the rack, so I suspect this doesn’t belong to any of the summer students. Removing the rear wheel would be rather impractical since you’d have to reattach the gears too.

It was a rather crappy, rusty bike too. As such the parts weren’t worth anything, and the tires were old and worn. What would possess someone to do something like this? One needs an access card to get into the courtyard. Any other means of access would require climbing a ten foot fence made of wrought-iron bars with nowhere to plant one’s feet. The possibility that some stupid fuck here perpetrated this fills me with contempt. It was just a cheap old bike that someone here uses for transportation only and some asshole just takes it upon himself to steal its pieces.

Crap like this requires the basest of dipshit intellect.

I mean, what a stupid motherfucker.

Well, if you don’t know who owns it, maybe the owner salvaged the rear wheel for another bike or project.

That’s possible, but given that full semesters of work are getting crammed into four weeks, it’d border on foolish.

Plus, why not remove the whole bike?

Well, the owner may not want to store a half-bike in his apartment when all he needs is the back wheel. The half-bike is reasonably safe where it is, and he may as well leave it there until he decides when and how to discard it.

I would surmise the idiot was fucking around with the owner, though I wouldn’t rule out the idiot theif possibility.