{"id":552287,"date":"2026-07-31T02:18:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T02:18:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/552287\/"},"modified":"2026-07-31T02:18:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T02:18:13","slug":"gone-in-13-seconds-bike-at-bus-hub-nicked-in-record-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/552287\/","title":{"rendered":"Gone in 13 seconds: Bike at bus hub nicked in record time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img alt=\"\" data-tb-thumbnail=\"true\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/copy-of-buses_300726-jpg.webp\" width=\"3806\" height=\"1626\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"narrow-format\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"color:transparent;object-fit:cover;display:block;box-sizing:border-box;padding:0px;width:100%;height:100%\"\/><img alt=\"\" data-tb-thumbnail=\"true\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/copy-of-buses_300726-jpg.webp\" width=\"3806\" height=\"1626\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"wider-format\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"color:transparent;object-fit:cover;display:block;box-sizing:border-box;padding:0px;width:100%;height:100%\"\/>The bike was stolen from Dunedin Bus Hub.  Photo: Peter McIntosh <\/p>\n<p>What is the longest amount of time you can leave your bike unattended in Dunedin?<\/p>\n<p>The answer for one unlucky cyclist was\u00a013 seconds.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday morning\u00a0a 31-year-old man rode a bike into the Dunedin Central Police just in time to be arrested for breaching his bail conditions, Constable Eli Stafford-Rogers, of Dunedin, said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Further investigations revealed the man was the suspected of stealing\u00a0a bicycle and\u00a0theft from\u00a0a local Dunedin business.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Officers noted the bike he rode in on, and recognised it as the bike that had been stolen from\u00a0the Dunedin\u00a0Bus Hub.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The man was caught on CCTV walking up to the unsecured bike exactly 13 seconds after the owner turned their back.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He then took off on the bike.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It may not be an official record, but it&#8217;s certainly one of the quickest bicycle thefts I&#8217;ve seen,\u201d Const Stafford-Rogers said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He said it was a timely reminder people should keep\u00a0in mind keeping your bike unsecured and unattended even for a matter of seconds was a risk.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>laine.priestley@odt.co.nz<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The bike was stolen from Dunedin Bus Hub. Photo: Peter McIntosh What is the longest amount of time&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":552288,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-552287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=552287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552287\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/552288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=552287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=552287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=552287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}