The thing is, I love Manchester. The people have a way of reacting to things unexpectedly and creatively, often subversively. They bounce back from horror and respond to ugliness in whatever way you anticipate it least.
I ran the Manchester 10km in the days after the Manchester Arena attack, and it felt like solidarity. Manchester reacted by filling St Ann's Square with flowers Sea of Flowers, and people did this: Bee tattoos. We paint stuff More bees, we do poetry Tony Walsh poem. We do Pride better than anywhere else. The city is a crowded, churning, passionate place where folk don't take stuff sitting down.
I'd expected some kind of reaction to the Mobikes but hadn't thought it would be one of such criminality. People steal the bikes, and I don't know why. With the locks removed, that's it, nicked. They put them in canals, they mindlessly trash these fantastic things. I don't know why you'd steal one. Kids as young as 11 years old.
Man tries to sell stolen mobike
11 year old done for stealing mobike
This was more what I was expecting:
Gold painted mobike more of this please
I had hoped for better.
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