Pixelle 💾A cleaning of a canal in Amsterdam. It's like a crane game where you win rusty old bikes.
Rufus Q. Bodine IIIWhy do the Dutch hate bicycles so much?
Chariotwheel- nobody said in Europe, ever
Sometimes you just have to feed the canal, you know?
If amything the Dutch hate water and by natural instinct try to create more land by filling it up.
god that kid is excited.
In my student years, we would use a rope with a hook on it and went to fish in the canals for bicycles. If we would find a good one, we put new tires on etc and maybe paint it a little. And in this way we got almost free bikes.
I think it was illegal though. So, there was someone on the lookout. If the police came we would quickly throw them back in the canal and try to act not suspiciously.
Odd that’s illegal. Seems like you were doing a public service.
Yeah but it doesn’t contribute to the economy, therefore, illegal and protected by police interest.
I’m just new boot goofin, but it’s probably illegal cause of safety. That’s a decent fall and with boats going up and down the canal plus falling into a rusty bike after it’s pulled up is jaw clenching
Yeah, I’m all for repurposing other peoples garbage but there are a lot of factors there, most having to do with safety.
Fried_out_KombiFunny thing is it’s actually bad for the economy at large to needlessly waste money. Money not spent on a new bike is money that could be spent on other things or other investments. But wasting your money is good for certain individuals, i.e., whoever sells you that new thing. We just have an economy structured around all of us acting like crabs in buckets, pulling each other down just to try to get a little bit ahead ourselves. A better economy would be built upon cooperation and efficiency, not mutual sabotage and needless waste.
They told me it was viewed as stealing the bikes and that that is why it was illegal. We never had any safety incidents as far as I know. We all could swim and there were not that many boats where we did this. Also, it was not that big of a fall if you would fall in. Maybe 2 meters or something?
… did you just make a very subtle tetanus pun? 🤣
Fishing with a magnet is illegal here because there’s lots of unexploded ordenance from WW2 in creeks and canals. It became a hype like 15 years ago, the amount of actual big ass bombs that suddenly got dropped on dry ground was insane. EOD units actually responded to multiple calls a DAY in places around Arnhem. It got banned really quickly after that. It’s just dangerous as fuck.
██████████Europeans idea of danger is hilarious
PyroNeurosisTIL that UXO is not damgerous in America!
Come war on our continent! But really please don’t. We’re doing a good enough job getting there on our own.
Tiny penis
I think it would be viewed as stealing the bikes. However, there was no way to give the bikes back to the people that owned them and we were cleaning the canals (we tried to throw anything else we found that was not usable in the trash, if possible). So, it shouldn’t have been illegal.
Im wondering how they identify where to dig in that mud.
President_PyrusMagnet fishers would be jealous.
JaysynThat job looks extremely satisfying.
Do people not have a low cost way to dispose of old bikes? That’s the only reason I can think of for why there are so many bikes in the canal.
The most likely answer is crime. Steal a bike, use it for a while, then dump it in a creek/river/ canal.
Happened all the time in Vancouver until the police stopped investigating pretty crime. Now the homeless thieves just have open chop shops for the stolen bikes out in public.
I considered that… but thought that crime is probably pretty low in Amsterdam. Maybe it’s not.
But why would you need to hide a stolen bike after using it for a while? Why not just walk away from it?
Because the person you’re responding too is talking out if their ass. These bikes fall in accidentally or get thrown in by drunk tourists.
It was an estimation. Petty crime used to pretty low in Vancouver too, but you could still find abandoned bikes in the wild.
Now imagine jumping in that water before this…
also I feel like a magnet crane might be ideal to grab the majority, and then go in with the claw after to grab the non-magnetic bikes?
Man the dutch have a cool bicycle culture but they litter like it doesn’t matter! This is what it looks like when both of those aspects of their culture come together.
littering doesnt matter mate. it came from the eartg it literally never left earth 🤔
I’m talking about bicycles in this particular case, and more generally, dutch people drop wrappers and cups on the ground like it’s their civic duty.
We put dog shit in bags because otherwise dogs cap spread diseases such as worms. Theres too much stupid in this comment for me to unpack.
oh no not NATURE 🤯
Bro knows nothing about ecology and hes proud of it.
Bro knows nothing about ecology and hes proud of it.
Do you prefer stepping in dog shit?