Don’t you think someone whose bike has been stolen realises they should have locked it afterwards without you telling them? Saying so may be fine but it actually depends how you tell them, I can imagine “Shoulda locked it” being a pretty annoying comment.
Don’t you think someone whose bike has been stolen realises they should have locked it afterwards without you telling them?
No, not necessarily.
And, as the OP describes, there is the question of how they secured the bicycle, with what sort of lock, etc. There is no reason to believe that someone who’s had their bike stolen automatically thereby knows what is the optimal method for securing a bike against theft. (If they knew, they presumably would’ve secured their bike thus, and would not have had it stolen!)
The failure mode isn’t always obvious. I had a friend that was very new to biking who used a dog collar chain to lock up a $1k bike. It got stolen within 5 minutes. A lot of times we couldn’t tell what the issue was because the bike would have vanished, so we’d ask what precautions they took and then scour the scene for clues. Sometimes we’d have no idea until and when the bike was recovered.
Don’t you think someone whose bike has been stolen realises they should have locked it afterwards without you telling them? Saying so may be fine but it actually depends how you tell them, I can imagine “Shoulda locked it” being a pretty annoying comment.
No, not necessarily.
And, as the OP describes, there is the question of how they secured the bicycle, with what sort of lock, etc. There is no reason to believe that someone who’s had their bike stolen automatically thereby knows what is the optimal method for securing a bike against theft. (If they knew, they presumably would’ve secured their bike thus, and would not have had it stolen!)
The failure mode isn’t always obvious. I had a friend that was very new to biking who used a dog collar chain to lock up a $1k bike. It got stolen within 5 minutes. A lot of times we couldn’t tell what the issue was because the bike would have vanished, so we’d ask what precautions they took and then scour the scene for clues. Sometimes we’d have no idea until and when the bike was recovered.