For the past few days, someone has been leaving a BMX bike parked in the apartment hallway about 3 feet from the front door to my ground-floor apartment. He just leaves it there overnight. I figured, whatever, someone will steal it and he’ll learn his lesson.
But then I got home tonight to see TWO bikes parked outside my apartment door. It kinda annoyed me. (A), they’re left alongside my outer wall, and it makes my entryway look ghetto, and (B), it’s pretty irresponsible to just leave your stuff out overnight.
Am I a bad person for making this sign and taping it to the outside wall?
I think it’s only evil if you put up the sign while the bikes are already there.
The “polite” thing to do is to leave discrete notes on the bikes themselves. If that doesn’t work, you could start disassembling their bikes for them in the middle of the night. Just for kicks, throw a couple of extra parts into the pile.
Alternately, you could put up a sign listing your bike-storage fees, along with the usual “not responsible for lost or stolen property” disclaimer.
If you really want to scare them (and scar them for life) just print out a mosaic of goatse, tubgirl, and lemonparty and place it on the bikes. They’ll get the message.
Assuming that this entry way is exclusively yours, then I would just move the bikes. If it’s not, then you need to leave a note to let them know it’s causing problems. After that take it up with the apartment management.
else put up the sign when the bikes aren’t there… And if they still show up after (and take down the sign) leave a note on them… still there? I’d let all the air out of the tires.
The disassembling them is a GREAT idea (esp. with tossing in extra parts) but requires a lot of effort…
