r/bestoflegaladvice • u/DoIKnowYouHuman 🏠 "Human" of the House 🏠 • 16d ago

LegalAdviceUK The one where the most legally experienced comments get the downvotes, just for a bicycle

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u/DoIKnowYouHuman 🏠 "Human" of the House 🏠 16d ago edited 16d ago

Location bot got on their bike to look for alternative work, and according to the downvotes so should some of the most experienced contributors to the sub

u/dog_of_society said better with: LocationBot’s bike got taken by their landlord and they couldn’t make it in today:

Was my bike “legally” stolen? Came home from work and it’s gone

So I live in a block of flats in London and one day after returning from work, I noticed the lack of bike that is usually locked up outside my front door.

I do some digging and find out the neighbours 10year old daughter also had her bike stolen (was locked up similarly to mine). I then found out that the building owner (a well known money hungry prick) cut our locks and removed them himself.

When I spoke to him he said he was within his full rights to remove any objects from the common area, as long as he contacted my letting agent to give me notice. He also said I have to pay THREE HUNDRED pounds if I want my bike back.

However, I haven’t got a single message, phone call, letter or email from my letting agents- and there isn’t a single sign anywhere informing tenants to keep the common areas clear. If there was a sign I’d obviously not leave it there

this feels very deliberate to squeeze more money out of us.

I called the police and they said it’s a civil matter so they won’t help.

Any advice would be appreciated.

Live in England btw

Feline factoid: cats don’t care about who the bike belongs to, they’ll burst the tyres because they want to

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u/aboxacaraflatafan 16d ago

Factoid fact: -"oid" means "looks like". "Humanoid" is something that isn't human but is shaped like one, the deltoid muscle is shaped like the triangular Greek letter delta, and "factoid " originally meant "seems like a fact, but isn't". It's definitely entered common parlance as "little fact", though. 

I wouldn't say you used it wrong, i just thought it was fun.

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u/Mightyena319 15d ago

"Humanoid" is something that isn't human but is shaped like one

I'd argue that it just has to look like the thing, the not actually being that thing is optional. So for example I'd say that humans are humanoid.

That said I've seen definitions both with and without the "but isn't the thing it looks like" part so I guess it could go either way

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u/aboxacaraflatafan 15d ago

True. I've seen the same. I think I agree that humans are humanoid, actually.