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MKRG 10-27-04 08:13 PM

All hail the blue haired clown!

lucklust 10-27-04 08:32 PM


Originally Posted by MKRG
All hail the blue haired clown!

Green!!! Green!!!

MKRG 10-27-04 08:57 PM

I need a new TV

myxbyx 10-27-04 10:52 PM

ok so the pie safe story proves pie is the most valuable and wanted food. Has anyone ever heard of a cheescake vault? Or a cobbler safety deposit? Nooooo. Only pie, among all baked goods is so honoured it must be stored in a safe.

ok there's a breadbox, but it's not a security thing, just containment.

Mayonnaise 11-19-04 11:37 AM

Update: That little blue Raleigh which I covet has a new sign attached. It says something to the effect this bike appears to be abandoned, if you are the owner of this bike please call (number listed) by (date listed) or it will be removed. I think the date was next Monday.

Maybe I ought to call and say the bike is mine but I don't have the key for the lock. I wonder if the city will come over and bust it open for me.

gilby 11-19-04 11:44 AM


Originally Posted by Mayonnaise
Maybe I ought to call and say the bike is mine but I don't have the key for the lock. I wonder if the city will come over and bust it open for me.

Yes! I think it's the best opportunity you have for getting the bike with a -somewhat- clear conscience.

skitbraviking 11-19-04 11:48 AM


Originally Posted by Mayonnaise
Update: That little blue Raleigh which I covet has a new sign attached. It says something to the effect this bike appears to be abandoned, if you are the owner of this bike please call (number listed) by (date listed) or it will be removed. I think the date was next Monday.

Maybe I ought to call and say the bike is mine but I don't have the key for the lock. I wonder if the city will come over and bust it open for me.


For good karma wait until Monday.

adampaiva 11-19-04 11:56 AM

I really want to steal my neighbor's bike. It is a sweet Bob Jackson frame. She definitely does not know what a bike she has. I am soooo tempted. She locks it up outside on the streets of west philly all day/night.

A3rd.Zero 11-19-04 12:18 PM

Dude don't steal it she might have named it! Then you would be, like, stealing "fred" or something. Don't steal Fred!

Milo

jfmckenna 11-19-04 04:25 PM

Oh Brother!

77Univega 11-29-04 06:28 PM

May I suggest you go to the cops, explain the situation and find out what your legal options are. You may learn that you are well within your legal right to rescue that abandoned bicycle. No more guilt.

operator 11-29-04 07:45 PM


Originally Posted by 77Univega
May I suggest you go to the cops, explain the situation and find out what your legal options are. You may learn that you are well within your legal right to rescue that abandoned bicycle. No more guilt.

Rofl, are you serious.

pitboss 11-29-04 09:07 PM

steal the stupid thing already. There is no god.
(that should get the thread booted)

lotek 11-30-04 09:23 AM


Originally Posted by [165]
steal the stupid thing already. There is no god.
(that should get the thread booted)

nope.

Mayonnaise 11-30-04 10:53 AM

Another update: Last night I'm walking down the sidewalk and turn left near the Raleigh in question. I see a guy with tools working on his biycle. I look closely because I know a thing or two about repair and could offer help, but he seems engrossed and I'm on the cell phone so I keep walking. I pass the Raleigh and notice the front wheel is missing. WTF, I think and keep walking. I get about five paces when I connect the missing wheel with the guy hunched over his bike. What to do? Do I confront the guy about the wheel or do I just keep walking and let it go? F it, I say, and just keep walking. Seems that tag the city attached was an invitation to come and take what you want. (The wheel was a POS, steel, heavy, certainly no stopping power, and 26 inch, I'm sure the thief had no clue that his front wheel is now smaller than his rear).

The vultures have descended and now the story ends.

pitboss 11-30-04 11:42 AM


Originally Posted by lotek
nope.

shucks...I hate Cheney.
(crosses fingers...)

lotek 11-30-04 11:58 AM


Originally Posted by [165]
shucks...I hate Cheney.
(crosses fingers...)

not gonna do it, wouldn't be prudent. . .

HereNT 11-30-04 12:10 PM

What about at some other juncture?

I hate Cheney too...

lotek 11-30-04 02:25 PM

I did not have sexual relations with that woman. . .

Mayonnaise 12-01-04 10:51 AM

sorry to keep bringing this up, but as I walked past the bike yesterday I noticed the front wheel was lying next to the rear wheel. I assume the thief tinkered with it for awhile and couldn't figure out how to make it work so he put it back and went on his way. He could have put it back where he found it by bolting on the fork. The bike is near death and will be in a landfill before the new year.

auk 12-01-04 10:58 AM

Mayo, you need to give that poor soul a good home for the holidays.

CVB 12-01-04 11:13 AM


I assume the thief tinkered with it for awhile....

I'm sure the thief had no clue that his front wheel is ....
For the record, I say you should take the thing.
HOWEVER...If you have pretty much justified to yourself that this is not theft, you can't call someone else a thief just because they are doing it and not you. That would be hypocrisy, which some would call worse than stealing.

Everest 12-01-04 03:33 PM

i say take it

TLC4bikes 12-02-04 11:25 AM

your turn to play thief

lotek 12-02-04 12:08 PM

165
I have not kept this alive.
I will however decidedly kill it and we can all go out
and have pie and beer if Mayo requests it.
(blatant attempt to get battystatus back). . . .


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