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Feb 7, 2010
More bikes stolen
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IT WAS broad daylight at a busy train station in the suburbs. But Mr Joel Chia's foldable mountain bicycle - which he took care to chain to a bike rack - still got stolen, and in under two hours. This happened last July, when the 30-year-old executive, who works in the education industry, returned to Potong Pasir MRT station to find his bike missing and the locks thrown into some bushes nearby. 'My bicycle was worth $700 and was bought online as it can't be found in Singapore. I made a police report and went back to the spot the next day, where I found a man cutting bike locks with a bolt cutter,' he said.
Mr Chia held on to the man until the police arrived. Bicycle theft in Singapore made the headlines last month when English cyclist Greg Browning's bicycle was stolen at Orchard Road. The Briton is cycling nearly 30,000km from London to Sydney on just 4,000 euros (S$7,800). Police statistics show that bicycle theft, along with other petty thefts, is on the rise. There were 536 cases of bicycle theft in the first six months of last year compared with 308 in the same period in 2008.
Read the full story in today's edition of The Sunday Times.
Home > Breaking News > Singapore > Story
Feb 7, 2010
More bikes stolen
<!-- by line --> By Shuli Sudderuddin
<!-- end left side bar -->
IT WAS broad daylight at a busy train station in the suburbs. But Mr Joel Chia's foldable mountain bicycle - which he took care to chain to a bike rack - still got stolen, and in under two hours. This happened last July, when the 30-year-old executive, who works in the education industry, returned to Potong Pasir MRT station to find his bike missing and the locks thrown into some bushes nearby. 'My bicycle was worth $700 and was bought online as it can't be found in Singapore. I made a police report and went back to the spot the next day, where I found a man cutting bike locks with a bolt cutter,' he said.
Mr Chia held on to the man until the police arrived. Bicycle theft in Singapore made the headlines last month when English cyclist Greg Browning's bicycle was stolen at Orchard Road. The Briton is cycling nearly 30,000km from London to Sydney on just 4,000 euros (S$7,800). Police statistics show that bicycle theft, along with other petty thefts, is on the rise. There were 536 cases of bicycle theft in the first six months of last year compared with 308 in the same period in 2008.
Read the full story in today's edition of The Sunday Times.