Every time I lock my bike to a wall loop I fear a topologist will appear and prove my bike is not attached to the loop, or in fact, not even locked

#cycling

@oivaeskola Not even theoretical. A fair while ago I saw a pair of pictures from Amsterdam, of a bike first locked by a wire lock to one of those canal-side poles, and then the same bike to a similar canal-side pole right on the other side of the canal! Some practical joker did the topology exercise...

@oivaeskola I collect these under the title "hashtag threat model"

@oivaeskola “This angle grinder? Oh! No, I’m not a thief. I’m a corrective topologist.”

@oivaeskola that sounds like a very specific type of thing (I wanna say mania, but that’s not it).

@oivaeskola I did that once (locked a bike to a loop (on a lamp post in this case) in a topologically unhelpful manner). A kid called out to me to tell me I'd got it wrong.