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Man Steal Motorcycle One Piece At a Time
A Chinese man was arrested for stealing a motorcycle over the course of 5 years from the factory where he worked. The man, identified only as Zhang, was an assembly line worker in the motorcycle factory and took Johnny Cash's advice by stealing the bike one piece at a time so he wouldn't get caught. "I don't have that much money, so I came up with the idea of taking the parts home and assembling them on my own," said Zhang. Soon after finishing his bike, Zhang was pulled over by the police, who soon discovered he had no paperwork. He admitted to theft, was fined, put on probation for a year, and ordered to return the motorcycle to the factory.
You can't stifle initiative; you just channel it into less attractive alternatives.
the title is hysterical
I had a similar experience with a dirt bike back in the 80's, but it was not theft. My cousin and I were ready for a weekend of riding when we discovered that the cast-aluminum rear hub was cracked and unrepairable. Facing a now ruined weekend, we set out to the junkyard. We found a hub and rim, sprocket and chain, etc. from various junk bikes of different brands. When it was done we called it the Yamahodakasuki. The hack job only lasted one day, but we took it as a victory.
"No matter where you go, there you are." -- Buckaroo Banzai
reminds you of it, eh? How did it do that? By mentioning it in the article by chance?
of the time my korean friend sang Johnny Cash's "I've Been Everywhere". He had a wicked bad Konglish accent but he damn near sang that song. Good times
I think it was Radar, Klinger tried to eat a jeep.
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Actually it was in the article summary.
New low for slashdotters, they no longer bother to even read the article summaries!
Guess I shouldn't be surprised.
HTF did you get any points for your last post anyway? Oh I guess the use of italics. +2 points for use of HTML!
I Can use it too.
Wait, let me mention a rod up the butt. Ahh! I totally deserve at least 2000 points for this post. I'm so clever.
I think I will go to Starbucks and type this while reciting it outloud!
Heh. Ironically enough, your crazed frothy-mouthed rant is actually a whole lot more humorous (albeit unintentionally) than your original "attempt at humour"! There's something quite sweet about a humourless person going nuts because nobody applauded their attempted joke: "GAAAAARGH I am being playful and lighthearted! Laugh, you bastards, laugh!"
Seriously though. Lighten up.
Put together a Honda dirt bike out of the parts inventory at a local dealer. Pulled a plate off another bike and drove it around for months...got pulled over one time for not having a rear view mirror. Cop didn't cross check any numbers and we simply put the plate back on the right bike, which we put into the back of a covered truck and drove to the nearest CHP office. Went inside, told them we were there with the bike to get the ticket signed off. The officer didn't even bother to go outside, he simply signed the ticket and told us to clear out.
Best chuckle I've had all day. Ar-ar-ar.
The cost of that cleanup, of course, will be borne by taxpayers, not industry.
That's interesting. This really reminds me of that Johnny Cash song "One Piece At A Time", though.
10 PRINT CHR$(205.5+RND(1)); : GOTO 10
The man, identified only as Zhang, was an assembly line worker in the motorcycle factory and took Johnny Cash's advice by stealing the bike one piece at a time so he wouldn't get caught.
I thought it was bad enough that 99.8% of Slashdotters don't RTFA (myself included for some articles), but if we can't at least agree to read the summary, how can we possibly have any sort of discussion. To put it bluntly, Epic Fail.
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This reminds me of the old Johnny Cash song!