No, this isn't some cheesy Channel 5 news report...it's an interest look at how one man views safety. I read about this Argentine publicist, Mariano Pasik, who did an experiment with bicycles to figure out how safe the neighborhoods are in Buenos Aires. The whole idea is that you can tell how safe your neighborhood is by how long an unchained bicycle will remain before someone steals it?. The name of his experiment is La Prueba de la Bicicleta, or The Test of the Bike.
Sounds odd right? Well not so much in America but in other areas of the world bicycles are the main transportation and a hot commodity. So what he did was use hidden cameras and used cheap bicycles as bait, to see how long it would take for the bike to get stolen. His thinking is, that the longer it takes for the bike to be stolen the safer the neighborhood.
Pasik did this is several neighborhoods and then set the videos to music and post them on the following website, http://www.lapruebadelabicicleta.com/ . It's kind of fun to watch them and see what happens.
However, Pasik doesn't consider this bike robbers thieves, "What you see on the videos is that they aren't professional thieves, they aren't people who went out to rob. They are people who ran into temptation and decided to commit a crime, they become thieves at the moment they take the bike," he said.
Pasik later goes on saying this is for art and hopes other videographers will follow in his footsteps. I think it's more art and interesting, because I definitely wouldn't judge my neighborhood on safety with whether or not a bike was stolen.
An example of one of his clips is below - does that music make you wanna go there or what, without the theft and all?
La Prueba de la Bicicleta - Salguero y Charcas = The Test of the Bike - and Salguero Charcas
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