This is fantastic. The Willamette Week had one of its interns steal his own bike 7 times throughout the city of Portland, OR. Nobody tried to stop him.

He wrote a story about this experience, which appears in the print version of the paper. And he had somebody shoot videos of him snapping the bike chains with giant bolt cutters. They’ve posted the footage to YouTube. Smart!

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