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I was biking in the northern Sweden and stopping by a restaurant. I left my luggage on my unlocked bike outside while going in for lunch for an hour. Nothing strange about that, why would anyone steal a bike? Noone locked their bikes!

Instead of saying openess is bad, let's say what kind of society you would like to live in and then work towards it.

Personally I would rather not have a bike lock, nor door lock.

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> Noone locked their bikes!

Wow this is a surreal comment. More than 65,000 bikes are reported stolen each year in Sweden [0] - but this is just the tip of the iceberg, as a stolen bike is so common that hardly anyone even bothers reporting it.

[0] https://bra.se/statistik/statistik-utifran-brottstyper/cykel...

Also that actually reporting it stolen is useless. Unless you need to claim insurance, or have the number of chasis somewhere. Police won't do anything about stolen bikes.

That's not true. I reported my bike stolen and got it back.

~~Has nothing to do with that they found it when arresting the thief for something completely different~~

Try doing that in Malmö.

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