Stole My Bike Back from the Thief
09-11-18, 08:28 PM
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Stealing is wrong, and you don't reward bad behavior, you punish it. His best consolation is that he didn't go to jail.
09-17-18, 11:39 AM
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That of course is the problem with bikes, the ease of stealing. I had a bike stolen from me probably 50 years ago when I was 15. It was outside probably 5 minutes at a friend's house. It felt like I was mugged. Made me ultraparanoid about a repeat performance.
My latest (2000) purchase of a new beautiful mid/high end bike made me want to sleep with it. I put it in the kitchen when visiting relatives. I still have it and never leave it outside. I always lock it and avoid locking it in dimly lit places. I am sure that I am overly paranoid but as the old Arabian proverb says "Trust in God but tie up your camel".
My latest (2000) purchase of a new beautiful mid/high end bike made me want to sleep with it. I put it in the kitchen when visiting relatives. I still have it and never leave it outside. I always lock it and avoid locking it in dimly lit places. I am sure that I am overly paranoid but as the old Arabian proverb says "Trust in God but tie up your camel".
09-17-18, 01:59 PM
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Don't forget that even the wealthiest 1% of 'muricans have a mob of thieves effectively running rogue over their property, their pocketbook, their beliefs and even their very lives.
Class division, and division along a thousand other seemingly randomly criss-crossing lines is no accident, the corporate media does all they can to diligently maintain it for their own purposes.
But down at street level, people always find ways to get along.
09-17-18, 02:33 PM
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Bike ownership
What if the guy the OP found it with owned the bike previously, a thief stole it from him and sold it to the OP, then the previous owner saw the second thief with it and reclaimed it? I don't think it's likely, but that could lead to sitcom levels of misunderstanding between "rightful owners."
Buying stolen property, whether or not you bought it good faith (you presuming you purchased it from the rightful owner) is still stolen property and unless it was adjudicated through proper legal mechanisms (such as the process -in most cases - selling the property in a police or government auction) the property is still yours. I’d be careful though using the “self help” method, (taking your property back) because if the person you’re taking the property from paid for the property (bought it in good faith from the thief) and defends his perceived rights to the property, and you get hurt, too bad.
just my two cents....
09-17-18, 04:50 PM
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*shrug* It fits with every experience I’ve ever had or even personally heard of involvong the police. Speeding in the car? They’re all over it. Real crime? Not really their area of expertise. But if you can get the guy to wait around for an hour then the officer sitting in his idling car down the block might be able to make his way there... It is crap that you can’t do anything yourself since they won’t. I’m Certain they’d suddenly be able to make an appearance if you decided to teach someone a lesson for trying to steal your bike. That’s just how it works...
09-18-18, 08:37 AM
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To the OP, re: feeling bad for the old guy, or wondering if he’s really the one who stole it:
I’ll just say if I were him and came out of the store to find my legally (as far as I knew)-purchased bike stolen, I’d call the cops right there & then. I wouldn’t have just walked away. He knows what he did.
I’ll just say if I were him and came out of the store to find my legally (as far as I knew)-purchased bike stolen, I’d call the cops right there & then. I wouldn’t have just walked away. He knows what he did.
I walked away, dejected. So did she. What could we have done? If either of us called the police, what would they do besides asking to see our passports and trying to find excuses to deport us? We just had to keep working and find a way to afford another one.
09-18-18, 10:10 AM
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Really? I have had two bikes stolen and the other one wife got her bike stolen when she was by herself coming out of an underground station.
I walked away, dejected. So did she. What could we have done? If either of us called the police, what would they do besides asking to see our passports and trying to find excuses to deport us? We just had to keep working and find a way to afford another one.
I walked away, dejected. So did she. What could we have done? If either of us called the police, what would they do besides asking to see our passports and trying to find excuses to deport us? We just had to keep working and find a way to afford another one.
let me amend my post to say this, then:
”if I were him and came out of the store to find my legally (as far as I knew)-purchased bike stolen, I’d call the cops right there & then. I wouldn’t have just walked away. ****You know, UNLESS I had very serious and completely understandable legal concerns about calling the police which unrelated to my bike.”
09-18-18, 10:36 AM
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Uh, okay...
let me amend my post to say this, then:
”if I were him and came out of the store to find my legally (as far as I knew)-purchased bike stolen, I’d call the cops right there & then. I wouldn’t have just walked away. ****You know, UNLESS I had very serious and completely understandable legal concerns about calling the police which unrelated to my bike.”
09-18-18, 04:52 PM
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I was wondering if the OP could report on his first or ongoing impressions of the Reynolds 531C ride. Thanks.
09-23-18, 03:28 AM
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So why don't we have a better system of registration? Didn't bike shops used to offer that?
09-23-18, 04:22 AM
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In my town, probably pretty typical, local police were in charge of bike "licenses" at one time. Everyone had to get a numbered sticker for their bikes from the local police station, at a nominal cost. You could be cited for not having one.
This system quietly disappeared in the early 70's, and no one has ever talked about bringing it back. But considering the cyclical nature of fads and trends, I would not be surprised if someone, somewhere, decided to bring it back. I'm not sure why the original system collapsed in the early 70's, possibly rebellious pot-smoking hippie kids of the era, refusing to comply ... man.
This system quietly disappeared in the early 70's, and no one has ever talked about bringing it back. But considering the cyclical nature of fads and trends, I would not be surprised if someone, somewhere, decided to bring it back. I'm not sure why the original system collapsed in the early 70's, possibly rebellious pot-smoking hippie kids of the era, refusing to comply ... man.
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