Green lentils. Open the valve cap, put one in, and screw it back on. If you don’t screw it too tight the tyre will deflate slowly and by the time anyone notices it’s empty, you’ll be long gone.
Also, deflating tyres without damaging them actually might not be illegal in many jurisdictions. In Finland a court ruled that deflating bicycle tyres is not illegal – the only thing it could fall under was vandalism, but it doesn’t cause any damage so it couldn’t be vandalism.
It’d be illegal in Sweden as egenmäktigt förfarande. Is there nothing similar in Finland?
For example, if you were to put a lock on someone’s bike, would that not be illegal? The idea with egenmäktigt förfarande is that you’re disturbing someone’s right to use their property.
The tyre deflation thing is from a court case where a man who was on trial for harassing a woman had deflated the woman’s bike tyres while she was in the shop. She came back to find the tyres deflated and had no pump so she rode the bike back to her house with deflated tyres, which damaged the rims. Seeking compensation for the damaged rims was part of her claim, but the court denied the claim because deflating the tyres was not what damaged them, but rather riding back on deflated tyres.
Of course Finnish court system does not work on precedent, so there’s no guarantee the same logic would apply to cars, or the sacred steel cow as they are known as here, so it’s best to not get caught.
If I start seeing these cars around here I’ll start carrying a knife with me and puncturing some tires until their owners get the message.
Green lentils. Open the valve cap, put one in, and screw it back on. If you don’t screw it too tight the tyre will deflate slowly and by the time anyone notices it’s empty, you’ll be long gone.
Also, deflating tyres without damaging them actually might not be illegal in many jurisdictions. In Finland a court ruled that deflating bicycle tyres is not illegal – the only thing it could fall under was vandalism, but it doesn’t cause any damage so it couldn’t be vandalism.
It’d be illegal in Sweden as egenmäktigt förfarande. Is there nothing similar in Finland?
For example, if you were to put a lock on someone’s bike, would that not be illegal? The idea with egenmäktigt förfarande is that you’re disturbing someone’s right to use their property.
I do not know about locking someone else’s bike.
The tyre deflation thing is from a court case where a man who was on trial for harassing a woman had deflated the woman’s bike tyres while she was in the shop. She came back to find the tyres deflated and had no pump so she rode the bike back to her house with deflated tyres, which damaged the rims. Seeking compensation for the damaged rims was part of her claim, but the court denied the claim because deflating the tyres was not what damaged them, but rather riding back on deflated tyres.
Of course Finnish court system does not work on precedent, so there’s no guarantee the same logic would apply to cars, or the sacred steel cow as they are known as here, so it’s best to not get caught.
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Interesting
https://tyreextinguishers.com/how-to-deflate-an-suv-tyre
I would, but that’s really all there is to it. They have to be uncooked lentils of course, and you may want to wear a disguise and do it at night.
Godspeed. Pack a mask for the inbuilt surveillance cameras.
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