Sorry to kill your Robin Hood romanticism, but odds are that it was people who are routine bike thiefs and flip them in LA, making very handsome money, rather than some poor fellow whose been shortchanged by life and left on the sidelines. Those people are mostly harmless and passed out on the street, rambling incoherently at worst, and at best asking for money.<p>Those are the kind of people stealing bikes, and they deserve judicial action:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;sanfrancisco&#x2F;comments&#x2F;4fcy9y&#x2F;sparks_fly_as_bike_thief_grinds_through_lock&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;sanfrancisco&#x2F;comments&#x2F;4fcy9y&#x2F;sparks...</a>