LarDasse74

A drugstore in Kennebunkport? Your bike was obviously taken by a strung-out Kennedy trying to find a way back to the family compound. Probably Ted or Rose.

vol

Did you lock it or not? "Loaded panniers", the thief got plenty!

Connell

<Raises hand> Many, many years ago, when I was about 14, I left it unlocked outside a convenience store for about 3 minutes.

Not registered, but I had it written down at home, and was able to give it to them.

Yep. Apparently it was just pinched by someone looking for a ride home. They dumped it behind a warehouse and it was reported when the staff arrived on Monday morning.

Yep.

A related story you might enjoy. Several years back, a friend of mine came across a would-be thief in the act of trying to steal his bike. Unfortunately for the would-be thief, said friend was a very large member of Her Majesty's Royal Marines, home on leave.

As he put it. "The fackin' feef lost some of his teef."

KZBrian

In 1980 I had my Fuji Grand Tourer locked with a cable to a heat register in the lobby of the apartment building where I lived.
A local teenager cut the cable and stole the bike. My downstairs neighbor came up and told me, and I called the police, who came and took the report. I gave him a very detailed description, but did not have the serial number recorded, nor was it registered.

Later the officer returned and said "I think we found you bike". They drove me half a mile away, and there it was, in somebody's front yard.
Apparently, this kid was a repeat offender.
I pressed charges.

harshbarj

a)One, back in 93-94 I think
b)I never took down that bikes number
c)I never got it back

Needless to say I now take down the serial and take several photos of the bike and store those on my webserver.

xizangstan

I'm still waiting for a really smart entrepreneur to come up with a GPS homing device that can be planted somewhere discretely on my bike. So that way, should someone snatch her, she can tell me where she is. I believe I would have local law enforcement with me, and I would without doubt press charges.

xizangstan

I would vote in favor of bringing back the old horse thief laws from a hundred years ago, and including bicycles. In the USA west, a horse thief got to say one last statement before they hung him/her from a big oak tree. End of horse thief. Worked then, should work today.

nelson249

Geez, that situation could have turned ugly... glad you got your machine back

nelson249

Or a ne'er to do well member of the Bush clan...

slipknot0129

That sounds good. Who would risk their life to steal a bike?

safariofthemind

I rather prefer tarring and feathering. Lynching is too messy, creates widows and orphans and just look at Saudi Arabia - it doesn't even stop crimes. Just makes the punishment more entertaining. Now an old fashioned set of town stocks - then we are talking.

or if you prefer

Worked better when streets were full of horse manure. But we can recreate that...

starla

A & B. Just a couple of weeks ago had my bike stolen from my house. It's not "my fault" because some person decided to take something that was not theirs, but I should not have left it outside unlocked either. I got spoiled and lazy because I've left it outside before as do others in the neighborhood. I won't make that mistake again.

Boudicca

A, B, C and D.

Two bikes locked together in downtown Toronto, both stolen.

A week later cops arrested notorious Toronto bike thief and held an open house of his stash, and we both got our bikes back.

Mine was registered with the police, but interestingly the number on the frame was one number off from the number on the receipt. And I had used the receipt number to register the bike, which is possibly why the cops never contacted me directly to tell me they had the bike. I showed them a picture of me riding the bike, and signed an affidavit, and she was back with me. Biking buddy had never registered her bike, but they settled for a picture and an affidavit. (I had cunningly downloaded pictures onto my cellphone before leaving for the open house, just in case.)

But then I looked at the number on the receipt of another bike, and that was one off from the actual number too.

Question: do bike shops deliberately change the numbers, to make it harder for people to get stolen bikes back so they can sell more bikes?

Or did I just get unlucky twice?

Kip

The rider was a 16 year old boy on his way to his dishwashing job at Sizzler and running late. I am 59 and I think I intimidated him, which is a source of amusement to my friends as I m definitely not overbearing or threatening.