Bad new trend in theft - rack attacks

Some bad but fairly obvious news from BikePortland.org - racks with easily unscrewable ground bolts are a bad idea, since thieves can unscrew the bolts and move the whole rack. (City racks tend to use a more obscure bolt instead of a standard hex type bolt, but it isn't too hard to find a tool online for these, either.)

From "Thieves Unbolt Staple Rack To Take Bike In Goose Hollow":

"I had my bike stolen from the (supposedly) secure underground parking garage beneath my girlfriend's apartment....I was simultaneously impressed/enraged at the ingenuity of the thief: I had locked my bike and the front tire to a parking staple using a Kryptonite U-Lock. When I returned the next morning I found the aforementioned lock rendered moot by the thief taking a common ratchet set to the bolts that secured the staple to the cement floor." ... Bryan said he was shocked that he never realized that these very commonly used staple racks were attached to the ground with simple bolts that can be unscrewed with an ordinary wrench purchased from any hardware store.

Local TV station KGW followed up on this with the report shown below: