Well, I had to go into university to get some work done yesterday and I locked my bike up outside in front of a fairly busy, open building and went in to work. I came out about an hour later and found that my lock had been cut but my bike was still there. I was a little confused and looked around and saw a guy and a girl on a BMX bike circling around, non-chalantly, looking at where my bike is. I couldn't really prove it was them so I just biked by them and stared them down to see if they would do anything. They just kind of ignored me. I phoned the campus police when I got home and reported that my lock was cut thinking that was the end of it.

So, today, I go and get a new lock and am heading to get some groceries and I see the same two people coming at me a few kilometres from the university. Again, I stare them down and then look back a few times. They are looking back at me. I stop and turn around, by then they are taking off in a sprint to try and get away. I take off after them and am almost catching up to them before they drop off into a trailer court. I am smarter than to follow them in and there was a cop about a block up. I talk to him about my story and he says he will go and check in there for me. I go get my groceries and get home.

I decide to phone the campus cops again and tell them about the two people I saw again and they say those are the two suspects they are looking for as they had just stolen another mountain bike about an hour before (the same description as the one they were riding). The cop got my description on where I last saw them and when I saw them and they let me go. Hopefully either the city cops or campus cops find them because they seem like they are stealing bikes as a profession, not convenience. Little punks.

I also keep thinking that I either should have confronted them yesterday or tried to lure them into stealing my bike by waiting in the building close to the exit and wait for them to try and take my bike. That would have got them busted as I would have phoned campus police and they wouldn't have been able to steal that mountain bike today. But, I guess hindsight is 20/20 and at the time there was no way of me knowing it was them other than suspicion. Confronting them is a bad mistake as well as you never know what type of people they are.