BIKE LOCKS: How do you prove it?

I did retrieve the bicycle, only to be arrested for stealing it as it "obviously belonged to a British Rail worker because it was parked opposite the station".

I was locked up overnight and released in the morning charged with something or other ...but that's irrelevant.

So, Worthing Police now want to lock up unlocked bicycles (Herald February, 14).

Primarily has anyone asked how much inconvenience is to be caused to the said owner trying to get their bike unlocked?

It is not illegal to leave it unlocked but it is illegal to ride on the pavement? Not that anyone stops that.

Suddenly it brings to mind the illegal parking clamps for cars, the cowboys never seem to get stopped.

So a policeman will immediately unlock your bike, even though it may take hours or days for a policeman to go to a burglary victim.

How often are cyclists ever prosecuted for cycling with no lights?

How does the owner of a police locked bicycle prove it is their bike?

This is farcical for the police to inconvenience these people when they have a real job to do, which is to enforce existing laws not make new ones up!

This is wrong.

C D Servante

Whitestyles Road

Sompting