Watch a Bicycle Get Stolen Piece by Piece Over 365 Days

Incredible: It takes more than five months for New York thieves to even begin dismantling a juicy, abandoned bicycle? Can we finally declare Bloomberg's Mayberryification of Manhattan complete?

The below time-lapse video was created by branding agency Red Peak as a guerrilla promo for Hudson Urban Bicycles, although BIC Pens might deserve brand shoutout, as well. The company parked a bike outside its office in SoHo and took a photograph of it on each day of 2011. The idea was to monitor the way New Yorkers butcher street bikes like crazed ants taking apart a deceased beetle. However, the surprising honesty of passersby makes much of the footage an exercise in suspense. Check out that Advil package that gets stuck in the wheel for 50 days. Riveting!