Front wheel lock type bicycle parking lot "The key to the bicycle" one after another theft December 10, 16:03
A police station in Nerima-ku, Tokyo, investigated the damage of bicycles being stolen, and found that they were in succession at a new type of bicycle parking lot where the front wheels were locked. It is thought that the usage fee will be settled on its own and the unlocked bicycle will be stolen, and the police station calls for the bicycle itself to be locked.
Bicycles are stolen one after another in a bicycle parking lot that automatically locks when the front wheel is fitted. This lock is released when the usage fee is entered into the checkout machine.
According to the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department's Hikarigaoka Police Station, the damage has hit at least 70 cases by the end of last month only in the Hikarigaoka area of Nerima.
It seems that it is a trick to settle the usage fee without permission and steal the unlocked bicycle, and many of the victims did not lock the bicycle from the psychology of being locked at the bicycle parking lot.
For this reason, the police station urged the police officers to pay attention to the bicycle parking lot by handing out an external key on the 10th, and called for the bicycle itself to be locked.
In recent years, this type of bicycle parking lot has been spreading around stations in the Tokyo metropolitan area, and 460,000 vehicles have been developed nationwide even if delivered by the industry's largest companies.
“There are many people who do not lock, but their“ heart gap ”is dangerous. I want you to make it a habit to lock your bicycle.”
Actual use and damage of lock-type bicycle parking lots
According to the Metropolitan Police Department's Hikarigaoka Police Station, around the Hikarigaoka area in Nerima Ward, there were 551 cases where bicycles were stolen by the end of last month.
Of these, at least 70 cases occurred in bicycle parking lots where the front wheels were locked, and more than half of the 37 cases were confirmed by users not locking the bicycle itself.
In this interview, during the day of this month, when I actually checked the bicycle parking lot near Hikarigaoka Station, there was an unlocked area with a lock ratio of about 1 in 10 cars. Many were found.
According to some of the largest companies in the industry, recently, there are some that can set a PIN code arbitrarily on the checkout machine that unlocks, but the percentage of people who use the PIN code remains at a low level.
A 64-year-old man who was using a bicycle parking lot without a lock said, “I thought it would be safe if I fixed the front wheel and stopped here. I think. ”