I remember I had a BMX stolen in college and I caught the kid riding at when I was doing volunteer work at the zoo.

I felt horrible to have confronted the kid bc he was a prepubescent 13yr old with his buddies fishing, but seriously, the frame was covered in stickers and he didn't remove a single one, plus the tt was dented to **** from the jack he used to crack my u-lock. I was with about 20 other people so we surrounded him pretty quickly. I couldn't rightfully beat his ass because he was just a kid. I called the cops and all they did was give me back a bent ass frame with the cranks and the chain bc he had stripped and sold my original parts, and replaced them with his own. The cop said there was no way to prove he didn't jack just the frame, so at the end of the day, I got screwed.

Good thing you held on to that bike man, sorry you had to take a few for it, but man, what an experience.