Comments on: It’s Crime Time! http://www.yorkvision.co.uk/news/its-crime-time/ Guardian Student Publication of the Year 2011-12 Tue, 07 Feb 2012 18:32:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Anon http://www.yorkvision.co.uk/news/its-crime-time/#comment-2834 Anon Mon, 29 Mar 2010 12:03:28 +0000 http://www.yorkvision.co.uk/?p=4530#comment-2834 Cool. Cool.

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]]> By: daniella http://www.yorkvision.co.uk/news/its-crime-time/#comment-2793 daniella Sat, 27 Mar 2010 20:24:45 +0000 http://www.yorkvision.co.uk/?p=4530#comment-2793 <a href="http://www.kryptonitelock.com/Pages/default.aspx" rel="nofollow">Kryptonite Locks</a> best bike locks ever, seriously worth it. my bike got nicked at uni after i spent £20 on a bike lock at halford's, ended up having to pay about £100 in total in insurance costs to get my new one. tbh i'd much rather have just not been as naive/stupid and spent £100 on an amazing lock and never have to go through all that hassle in the first place.. https://www.kryptonitelock.com/products/ProductDetail.aspx?cid=1001&scid=1000&pid=1207 I have that lock now with a 4" cable (cos i have a quick release wheel!) Also take your seat with you where ever you go, people are less likely to want it if it has no seat. Also some people just nick the seat to be arseholes so it's a good measure anyway! Kryptonite Locks

best bike locks ever, seriously worth it. my bike got nicked at uni after i spent £20 on a bike lock at halford’s, ended up having to pay about £100 in total in insurance costs to get my new one. tbh i’d much rather have just not been as naive/stupid and spent £100 on an amazing lock and never have to go through all that hassle in the first place..

https://www.kryptonitelock.com/products/ProductDetail.aspx?cid=1001&scid=1000&pid=1207

I have that lock now with a 4″ cable (cos i have a quick release wheel!)

Also take your seat with you where ever you go, people are less likely to want it if it has no seat. Also some people just nick the seat to be arseholes so it’s a good measure anyway!

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]]> By: Anon E. Mouse http://www.yorkvision.co.uk/news/its-crime-time/#comment-2789 Anon E. Mouse Sat, 27 Mar 2010 15:35:34 +0000 http://www.yorkvision.co.uk/?p=4530#comment-2789 "Doesn't cost a lot", I meant to say. Too busy laughing at my own panda jokes to type properly. “Doesn’t cost a lot”, I meant to say. Too busy laughing at my own
panda jokes to type properly.

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]]> By: Anon E. Mouse http://www.yorkvision.co.uk/news/its-crime-time/#comment-2788 Anon E. Mouse Sat, 27 Mar 2010 15:34:10 +0000 http://www.yorkvision.co.uk/?p=4530#comment-2788 If he had been busy helping someone, then maybe it would have been worth having him there for THAT instead! Most of the time when they're helping someone they're in the lodges - and just them being there wards criminals off a bit. Porters aren't perfect, and they can't be everywhere at once, but that's no reason to get rid of them. It's like saying that bike locks can be saw through, so don't lock your bike. Imperfect doesn't equal useless. If anything, maybe porters not always being available is a reason to employ a few MORE of them. And of course when we DO get rid of them then they're even LESS available to do stuff. Langwith lodge is virtually porter-free these days, as they're always off covering for Derwent and Vanbrugh. I've worked out how to fund porters. Forget the new £1.5m they've just found, and rents. We need to adopt porters, like adopting a panda, and pay two pounds a month, and get an adoption certicate and a photo of our porter. This is Bill. We rescued him from a job centre in 1992. He likes tyres, climbing things, and humping his keeper's leg. Here's a photo of him eating bamboo (the porter, not the keeper, obviously). Speaking of bike locks, what's the best one which doesn't a lot? If he had been busy helping someone, then maybe it would have been
worth having him there for THAT instead!

Most of the time when they’re helping someone they’re in the lodges
- and just them being there wards criminals off a bit. Porters aren’t
perfect, and they can’t be everywhere at once, but that’s no reason to
get rid of them. It’s like saying that bike locks can be saw through,
so don’t lock your bike. Imperfect doesn’t equal useless.

If anything, maybe porters not always being available is a reason to
employ a few MORE of them. And of course when we DO get rid of them
then they’re even LESS available to do stuff. Langwith lodge is
virtually porter-free these days, as they’re always off covering for
Derwent and Vanbrugh.

I’ve worked out how to fund porters. Forget the new £1.5m they’ve just
found, and rents. We need to adopt porters, like adopting a panda, and
pay two pounds a month, and get an adoption certicate and a photo of
our porter. This is Bill. We rescued him from a job centre in 1992.
He likes tyres, climbing things, and humping his keeper’s leg. Here’s
a photo of him eating bamboo (the porter, not the keeper, obviously).

Speaking of bike locks, what’s the best one which doesn’t a lot?

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]]> By: Eau Rouge http://www.yorkvision.co.uk/news/its-crime-time/#comment-2783 Eau Rouge Sat, 27 Mar 2010 00:54:14 +0000 http://www.yorkvision.co.uk/?p=4530#comment-2783 Sure, the porter may have stopped this, but what if he'd been busy helping someone? Moral: buy a better bike lock (or two). Sure, the porter may have stopped this, but what if he’d been busy helping someone?

Moral: buy a better bike lock (or two).

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]]> By: Anon http://www.yorkvision.co.uk/news/its-crime-time/#comment-2711 Anon Wed, 24 Mar 2010 12:00:03 +0000 http://www.yorkvision.co.uk/?p=4530#comment-2711 By the sounds of it, she parked her 'bike at one of the racks which is within sight of the lodge; and, even if she didn't, having someone in the lodge provides general deterrence. Anyone about to nick something will probably have a quick check around the immediate vicinity. Even the management admits that having staffed lodges is a deterrent to crime. So .... not an "unwarranted example" at all. This is a good, and important, article. It's good to get the truth regarding crime, instead of our only source of information being the anti-portering YUSU lies about crime on campus supposedly "decreasing" since portering hours were cut. It's also worth reading this article in conjunction with Vision's "York in the money" piece.... By the sounds of it, she parked her ‘bike at one of the racks which
is within sight of the lodge; and, even if she didn’t, having someone
in the lodge provides general deterrence. Anyone about to nick
something will probably have a quick check around the immediate
vicinity. Even the management admits that having staffed lodges is
a deterrent to crime. So …. not an “unwarranted example” at all.
This is a good, and important, article. It’s good to get the truth
regarding crime, instead of our only source of information being the
anti-portering YUSU lies about crime on campus supposedly “decreasing”
since portering hours were cut. It’s also worth reading this article
in conjunction with Vision’s “York in the money” piece….

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]]> By: Stelhan Miguel Ariyadasa-Sáez http://www.yorkvision.co.uk/news/its-crime-time/#comment-2396 Stelhan Miguel Ariyadasa-Sáez Fri, 12 Mar 2010 17:02:25 +0000 http://www.yorkvision.co.uk/?p=4530#comment-2396 Next to Vanbrugh Porter's Lodge, you say? As in the bike racks outside Vanbrugh? The bike racks you can't even *see* at least the overwhelming majority of from the Porter's Lodge, you say? I spy an unwarranted example. Next to Vanbrugh Porter’s Lodge, you say?
As in the bike racks outside Vanbrugh?

The bike racks you can’t even *see* at least the overwhelming majority of from the Porter’s Lodge, you say?

I spy an unwarranted example.

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]]> By: Steve http://www.yorkvision.co.uk/news/its-crime-time/#comment-2251 Steve Tue, 09 Mar 2010 22:10:04 +0000 http://www.yorkvision.co.uk/?p=4530#comment-2251 These are shocking figures. I would expect more of a response from the University. It is almost as if they dismiss the statistics. If they took our welfare serious they would have made a statement about what they are going to do to reduce crime rates, their apathy suggests they don't care about the rise and the safety of students. These are shocking figures.

I would expect more of a response from the University. It is almost as if they dismiss the statistics. If they took our welfare serious they would have made a statement about what they are going to do to reduce crime rates, their apathy suggests they don’t care about the rise and the safety of students.

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]]> By: Ben Katten http://www.yorkvision.co.uk/news/its-crime-time/#comment-2240 Ben Katten Tue, 09 Mar 2010 20:09:46 +0000 http://www.yorkvision.co.uk/?p=4530#comment-2240 I wonder if the rise in crime has any correlation with the lack of security mgr at the uni since last october. I wonder if the rise in crime has any correlation with the lack of security mgr at the uni since last october.

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