|   Busted!!! Bike thief arrested! | bhutata
Jan 15, 2004 2:33 PM | | I posted about this when it first happened several weeks ago. Some guy came into the LBS and took out a high-end RM for a test-ride and never came back. Even left his drivers license behind. I was at the shop this week and the owner finally got a letter in the mail that they arrested the guy. No word yet on recovery, but no one is holding their breath, odds are he sold it cheap to make a few quick bucks.
What really bites is that the owner says the insurance co denied his claim because they say he "voluntarily handed the merchandise over" to the guy. Here's to hoping they can at least cause the perp a little grief for his misdeeds. |
| Great to hear, I got a $1700 bike stolen once myself while I was... | Bikeless Rider
Jan 15, 2004 5:51 PM | | ...in a local book store for about 20 minutes. They got right through the cable lock I had on it in broad daylight with lots of pedestrians walking by. To this day I refuse to leave my bike unattended, unless it's in my apartment with a knob and deadbolt lock on the door. These kind of people are the scum of the earth doing such things that effect our trust in fellow human beings so much. I hear Larry Mettler of Mt High Cyclery found out who stole the high end bikes (about 3) from his shop recently, and hopefully an arrest has already been made. Sounds like the Denver police are really on the ball. |
| Idiot... | Ricko
Jan 16, 2004 4:21 AM | | Stupid thief leaves ID behind lol. He probably had no intention of stealing that RM but liked it so much he kept right on going.
Reminds me of a recent story in the paper. The cops followed tracks in the fresh snow 4 doors down from a house that was burglerized. They looked in the window and saw the bonehead sitting there watching the TV he had stolen. |
| That happened to me IRL ... | Philber
Jan 16, 2004 10:18 AM | | When I was in university (many, many moons ago), me and my roommate bought a 24 of beer and put it in the fridge for a party that night. We came back to our house about 5 hours later, the place was freezing and there was water all over the floor. We followed the trail of water to the fridge, where we noticed our beer was missing. The cold was due to the window being wide open. We looked out the window, and saw deep footprints in the snow, starting beneath the open window and going directly across the front yard to the door of some crappy basement apartment in the tenement building next door. We went over there, and demanded our beer. Amazingly, the idiot denied taking it and became belligerent. We called the cops, they went over, got our beer and gave it back to us. Remarkable. |
| Great News... Here is my story: | ringlord
Jan 16, 2004 7:04 AM | | Over the summer my wifes bike was stolen out of the back of our truck that was parked in the bike shop parking lot! She eyed a suspicious kid hanging out in the lot as she went in. She came out 1 minute later and the bike was gone (she didn't lock it up).
Anyway, she filed a report bla,bla. Two weeks later the stupid kid brought her smashed rear wheel to the SAME shop for repair. She immediatly recognized the kid as he dropped of the wheel leaving his name and #.
The shop called him back later to pick up his "fixed" wheel as he then arrived with awaiting police ossifers to cuff 'em.
He spent 33 days in jail and $1500 fine. We did get the bike bike but it was thrashed.
Moral of this story: never leave your bike unlocked even for a moment and look out for suspicious dirtbags hanging around at bikeshops. |
| "Moral of the story" | Noic
Jan 16, 2004 9:20 AM | | "Look out for suspicious dirtbags hanging around bikeshops"? That'll be every-phucking-body in there! |
| "Moral of the story" | Billy Rousell
Jan 16, 2004 1:29 PM | | You're a dork with a comment like that. |
| And insurance com. wonder why they get lied to........ | Beau
Jan 16, 2004 1:10 PM | | "voluntarily handed the merchandise over".....yeah they should have known damn it!!! Pshhhh. That is B.S. I would be looking at a different insurance com. myself. So what happens when a car dealership hands over the keys for a test drive and the person never comes back?? I hate insurance companies and the people who have to sell it.
Beau |
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