I hope you ride my Bike without a helmet and get hit by a Monster Truck.
Best Stolen Bike poster ever:
Image via Jalopnik.
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Update: Get the shirt! With thanks to Erin King & Threadless for the tip.
Julian Glander aka secretly robots
my design MISSING started out as an actual flyer that I put up around my dorm when my bike was “stolen” earlier this year… Later, I found out it had been towed because I chained it to a fence with a “no bikes” sign on it. Whoops! Here’s the original flyer: and here are the 300 million bikes I drew before I got the right one: So anyways, thanks so much to everyone that made this design …
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Great !! This really made me laugh. Thank you !
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Tyson S: Forgiveness Waylon. Everybody is suffering, even the bike thief.
Waylon Lewis Good point–remember what Trungpa Rinpoche said about the person who stole last food during escape from Chinese across Tibetan Himalayas?
Still, I think the above was in spirit of pure humor. Love it.
Tyson S: Stealing bikes is pretty low.
Waylon Lewis There's a sticker I used to have from a Wyoming bike shop that ably captures the sentiment: We Still Hang Bike Thieves in Wyoming.
Yep, I think this poster is about right. Way not be to a victim.
Hehe … what a wonderful diagram and she made $2200. +2 for creativity.
There is nothing elighten or 'mindful' about this… it is full of anger and bitterness. It dose not inspire me not to steal bikes. Anger tends to produce more anger.
You're 100% correct. There's nothing elighten about this. That said, it's good to have a sense of humor, hey, and humor is a mark of walking the path, some say? ~ Waylon
Hmmm. I think I have a pretty good sense of humour. Hate to spoil y'all fun chiles… but isn't "wishing or requesting death to humans" equal to "causing death to humans" and "celebrating death of humans as carried out by others"?
If you don't want your bicycle stolen perhaps one way to accomplish that is a t-shirt saying – "I wouldn't want to have YOUR karma. Please return my bike." But even lecturing about karma is a bit presumptuous.
"I feel so shitty that you stole my bicycle – I was REALLY attached to it" might work a whole lot better. Own your crap. It's not really necessary to make life worse for other people no matter how bad you feel.
I agree with michaelbiz. Resentment, even "righteous resentment" is a negative force on the one holding the resentment. Sharing it on the internet only spreads that resentment and anger. It does not change the actions of the "bike thief" (it turns out there was no bike thief and it was the owners fault for locking to a "no bike" fence.)
Warning: elephant readers are way too self-serious. Please exit the building and reenter with a smile on your face and glint in your eye. Thank you. ~ Waylon
This was a good simple laugh. I feel enlightened… with laughter. Im sure the anger was released with this poster, but then laughed about, then the issue was let go. Feels good to laugh! Thanks for posting.
H I L A R I O U S. Deprecation and humor combined makes me seriously giggle. I don't see this as hate, more like growling and laughing. Kind of like a coyote. I like coyotes. I think some people here just don't like coyotes. That's just how I see it.
I just realized that we definitely think too much sometimes. I laughed, then I did the whole "this is wrong" thing…then I realized sometimes things are just a joke…we can also become to attached to being serious and judgy and worrying about things…
If it had been meant seriously…booo, but in the light it was done in…haha…
enLIGHTen up
oh my goodness to above naysayers. This is simple fucking humor. Laugh! It's funny!! ha ha, you know, funny. giggle giggle, teeheehee. Especially the "straight to hell" part. Lightened up my moment.
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Sharon Martin Andersson LIKE!!
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Heather Grace Too cute
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Walt Hester Anyone who steals a bike has a special place reserved for them in Hell, along with anyone who would steal a guitar or surf board.! Bad, bad karma.!
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Kristi Kaye I like this poster. My Gary Fisher was stolen in 2005 and I still look at peoples bike and think hmm is that mine
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Belinda B. Barnes Love it!
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