Originally Posted by
Charliekeet
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.
As to your later posts, well, the way you said stuff sounds like you think there’s a causal connection, that the reason that 1. Your childhood bikes weren’t usually stolen is because you were in a “nice mostly White town” or 2. That you got “into fights daily with the Mexicans” is because they were people apparently were/weren’t different from you.
Cause otherwise, why mention the difference?
That’s how we internalize the stereotypes you mention.
And to bring it back to he present situation, does it matter what race the old thief is? Nope.
You got yours back, no harm, no foul.
I didn't think of him casually walking away in that manner. Good point.
And yeah I understand how my posts are coming off but don't want to turn this into those social media arguements about race. Truth is we did fight with the Mexicans because that's just the way it was. We didn't pick the fights on purpose or because they were different from us. Honestly they would start with the racist remarks relating to convenience stores, terrorism, taxis, etc. As an adult I react in a mature manner but kids will be kids.
I mentioned the difference because it makes for a real story, to me they're adjectives describing the person. People will put a put a face behind a story anyways so might as well give correct detail. To me it doesn't matter the race of this current thief. Age and situation mattered. But the police dispatch would not move on until I described the thief's ethnicity or race. Makes you wonder why that information was so important to them? Anyways, this is going away from a bicycle conversation.
Hopefully I can refresh this thread with updated pictures of the bike soon.