This crime was more funny than disturbing. Someone tried to lift some stuff off of my friends Specialized Rockhopper. They got his wedgepack ok, but had some trouble with the other stuff. The seat had a quick release on it, but this didn't daunt him. He simply sat there and took the time to completely unscrew the lever from the seat tube! Then he went for the rear wheel, only to be foiled by an especially protective set of V-brakes. He countered with a brilliant attack from a 5 mm allen wrench (forget about unhooking the darn things). He must have gotten interrupted in this second task, because he left in the middle and his haul for the day consisted of one quick release lever, the (empty I think) wedge pack, and one hex screw.
It's really angering that people do this crap, but at least this guy didn't get much and he was dumb enough to give us something to laugh at.

I give this bum a month before he gets busted.

lol

The funny part of the story for me is that he was smart enough to have metric allen wrenches with him, but not smart enough to work the quick releases!!

Maybe he was specifically looking for those parts? Some have strange notions of what is a store...

Regards

Sounds like he's related to some of the local squirrels we have around here.

In my experience, wheel theifs tend to be crackheads. After a few months of smoking crack, he likely doesn't have enough working braincells to understand how a brake noodle or a QR lever works. Even if the bike is worth a good amount of $$$, he wasn't likely to get more than $10 for the entire wheel, anyway. More than likely, what you had there was a crackhead with a trashed rear wheel on his worn-out ***-mart bike.....