Some scrote riding it up the road and you see it while driving past, what would you do? Seriously be honest, no big hard talk, what would you do? Not bothered about what's right or wrong, just want to know what the majority of people would do.
Depends how big the scrote is tbh!
Hit the brakes and swerve to avoid the dog that just ran across the road.....
follow him whilst calling the old bill?
atleast follow him
no big hard talk
I think we should all take a guess at what you did/what happened.
And a speculative well done on getting your bike back too.
I'd go after him. If it looked like a couldn't take him i'd call the police.
I'd probably get too angry, forget to ring the old bill and end up getting a pasting though!!
A mate of mine found himself in that situation (it was his kid's bike).
He punched scrote in the face and took the bike home.
He ended up in court on an assault charge but was cleared (and congratulated).
Nothing, come home and type on a forum.
Jump out of car, chase him down, roundhouse kick to the head, wrestle him to the ground, bundle him into the boot of the car, lock him in my basement, lop his fingers off with secateurs...
..or maybe call old bill then park ahead of him get out of car and grab hold of bike, telling him I've called the police. This is dependant on whther I'm likely to get stabbed or not.
If on his own and not the size of Lenox Lewis I would probably attempt to take my bike off him.
The minimum I would do is call the rozzers and follow him/his gang.
I would be slightly concerned if my house/shed had been broken into to get the bike as he would know where I lived. This concern would probably only happen after the event.
Follow and find out where he's going.
Then you have two options - call the Police and wait for them to do very little or call your mates and ambush the scrote.
FWIW, the scrote won't like the fact that you know where to find him...
Follow him to Wharncliffe woods - if he rides the 'proper' downhills as you say or can really do Peaty's drop then congratulate him as clearly he owns you.
On the other hand if you find he is just a 'serp' then maybe you could own him ! 😀
Yes, very dependant on whether there was him, or lots of them, and the size of him if just one.
If I thought I was going to be ok, being a fairly hefty 6ft and with quite a bit of martial arts experience, I'd have a crack at retrieving the bike myself.
One thing I would think about afterwards, is that the scrote almost certainly knows where I live as he's already nicked the bike....
knock ten bells out of him and take it back warning him if he tries anything I'd go after him and his family. worked for me anyway the little scum bag that nicked my bike avoids my area of town now
knock ten bells out of him and take it back warning him if he tries anything I'd go after him and his family. worked for me anyway the little scum bag that nicked my bike avoids my area of town now
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call police, possibly stop them somewhere publicly[ witnesses etc/make a scene and await the police
Restrain if I really had to
For all you know they bought the bike and are a victim of crime just like you are.
Probably get really cross then post a thread on here about it.
Follow them until they leave the bike unattended and steal it back. this avoids possible confrontation and will annoy the crap out of the scrote.
Only ever had one bike stolen (bmx) and had given up on getting it back. A few months later I was just about to board a coach for Dublin from my home town (I was playing in the Irish version of the Superbowl) and spied a pair of bent shimano dx pedals from across the car park. Both my pedal were bent in the middle from heavy landings (which is pretty hard to do) and these looked bent also. Turned out it wasn't my bike but it had my pedals/brs and brakes on it. Guy legs it. I chase and catch him. I threw him over a wall (and administered a couple of gentle blows). I phoned my dad and the police and asked our cheerleaders to sit on him until the police/father arrived as we had to go.
steel4real has it 😆
follow him [S]whilst calling[/S] [B]Then Call[/B] the old bill?
FTFY, don't want to get done yourself for using the phone and driving do you...
Obviously there's plenty of BIG TALK with these things but TBH I wouldn't fancy the confrontation regardless of the Size of said Scrote.
Retrieving your property with the aid of fisticuffs sounds great, till it backfires and he's got a knife, big mates or a good solicitor who brings you up on assault, plus if you don't involve the Rozzers He's essentially gotten away with the theft.
Can you be sure the Scrote you spot on the bike is actually the one who knicked it or just the latest recipient of this particular stolen item?
Get out of car stop scroute by hanging onto bike, and call the Feds
Take several photos, possibly follow him/her to find where they lived and then report to police. I had my bikes nicked last year and they've since been replaced. I'm not bothered about getting the old ones back, but would hope* that the justice system will do its thing.
*some hope
Probably just get out the car, then pick up the car and beat the kid in the balls with it.
Run of the mill reply, I guess.
This happened to me when I lived in Darlington but with a Scooter not a bike, saw kid on my scooter wearing my helmet that was locked in the scooter driving towards me, did a U-turn in the car and tried to follow, luckily I lost him, it would have been foolish to get too involved as it was stolen from my house and he would have know where I lived.
What is it with people nowadays...
Surely everyone carries around a set of Bombers in their back pocket
The other day I had a slightly similar dilemma. Saw a bloke riding a fancy carbon Canyon. Nothing unusual about it. Except he was in gumboots, wearing high vis. Looked like he'd just come out of a building site.
Not sure what to do in these cases really.
If it were my bike and I were driving, I'd definitely follow him and find out where he lived at a minimum with the aim of getting police help, or helping myself back to my own bike really.
and asked our cheerleaders to sit on him
and they say that crime doesn't pay!
i would take it back.....nicely tho. 😀
Touch his chest and tell him that if he doesn't give me my bike back, I'll drag him around the corner and bum him. Nothing scares like male rape.
A friend of mine had a bike stolen from his kitchen whilst he slept..
He was in his work van driving through town a week or so later and saw it being pushed across a crossing in front of him by a scrawny bag head..
My mate is a gentle soul but he's a bit of a gorilla so he instinctively lept out and scooped up bike and rider and chucked both in the back of the transit in a heap..
He was on his way home but dropped in at the local police station and dropped terrified junkie off with a brief explanation to two astonished coppers who were loitering outside.. Before anyone had chance to react he had jumped back in the van and driven home..
Fortunately he heard no more about it from the police, but not so fortunately the bike was stolen in exactly the same fashion some months later, never to be seen again..
Violently swerve the car and knock him off.
Then reverse back over his legs (being careful to avoid the bike)
Then forward over his abdomen.
Then reverse again over his chest.
Then forward over his head.
Claim "I was blinded by the sun m'lud" and get clean away with it.
had a bike knicked once while living in leeds n about a week later i did see some chav ride it across the road in front of me and into a park and away. There was no way it was anybody elses as I built it all custom myself. All I did was ring the OH and say you'll never guess I just saw someone riding my bike. At the end of the day someone is always prepared to go further than I would, knives, guns, more of them etc. its not worth it in my eyes and its the reason i have insurance!
irelanst - Memberand asked our cheerleaders to sit on him
and they say that crime doesn't pay!
You're assuming (as i would) that they were [i]hot[/i]. Lovely girls, but they were sponsored by a local dog food company 😀
Hmm. Have to admit I was in two minds what to do about a little twunt I saw in Audenshaw a month or so ago.
Classic scrote type - Burberry cap, Reeboks tucked into white socks and Rockports.
Only thing was, he was riding a brnad new Orange 322...
Trouble is, it COULD be a completely innocent situation (if highly unlikely) - if you take the law into your own hands, YOU could end up the twunt.
Do your bit if you must but look after number 1.
So, what did [i]you[/i] do?
Nowt. He was on the other side of a dual carriageway and I didn't have my phone with me at the time.
I thought you are some kind of riding god Pussy amazed you didnt leap out of the car emit a blood curdling challenge and kung po chop his thieving ass and reclaim your property.
If I knew it was my bike and thought I wouldn't have a problem reclaiming it from the person who had it then this is what I would do. Stop get out of the car go up to the person and say 'Hi nice bike can I take a picture?' take the picture of them and the bike then reclaim the bike. Followed by calling the police.
If I didn't think I could reclaim it from the person then I would follow them while calling the police and try to resolve it that way.
just take my bike back. Which I did when this happened to me, but it was in the hands of a 10 year old kid.
just take my bike back. Which I did when this happened to me, but it was in the hands of a 10 year old kid.
Like taking [s]sweets[/s] a bike from a baby
My mate's bike was nicked from my garage years ago & we found out who'd done it via a couple of bad lads that we knew quite well. Matey found the scrote sat in a car in the local village with 3 others & (on his own) simply opened the car door & said, 'where's my bike, cos I want it back, now'. A bit of 'persuasion' later & he had the bike back within 15 minutes.
He's now the smallest police sergeant the North.
Take the bike off the scrote, floor the scrote then take a pic on the old mobile of me with one foot on the scrotes chest to show the grandkids...
Ride off in to the sunset, via the off-licence for some celebratory cans.
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Run them over, tweet about it, get off scot free and enjoy the insurance replacement - simples!
Like taking [s]sweets[/s] a bike from a baby
It was not difficult. Poor kid was terrified by the sight of my car heading towards him. He leapt off my bike like a salmon heading for the ancestral spawning grounds, issuing denials before I had even made my accusations. I was just thrilled to have my bike back..
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I thought you are some kind of riding god Pussy I'm amazed you didnt leap out of the car emit a blood curdling challenge and kung po chop his thieving ass and reclaim your property.POSTED 58MINUTES AGO # REPORT-POST
I am, but this wasn't my bike that was stolen... Its my friends and he saw his stolen bike last week and he said he just watched the scrote ride past him while waiting for the traffic lights, he then drove past him again and did **** all! 😯
Bless him, when all I did was laugh when he told me! 😆
Similar situation , but on foot . Saw scrote walking with mates bike freshly nicked that morning.
His face met the pavement and then a wall. Police came and didnt care , let off with another warning.
Drive up, get out, push scrote off bike, get bike, see scrote jump up, crap myself, see scrote run to my car jump in and drive off
At least I'd have me bike back 😡
I would/have stopped them, remove them from the bike and put it in the boot of my car. Then tell them nicely that next time i see them i won't be so calm .
Just talk to him. He might have bought it. Explain the situation. You might be able to work something out. Appearances can be deceptive and sometimes scroats are reasonable young people. If he has nicked it then it hasn't cost him anything and he might just hand it back if you tell him there will be no further action.
If he legs it, try and take a picture then report it to the police.
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Probably just get out the car, then pick up the car and beat the kid in the balls with it.Run of the mill reply, I guess.
When Jamie gets mad?
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I was in this situation 10 years ago. My bike was stolen from a house share I was in whilst ALL 5 of us were at home. The insurance replacement was fast (within 1 week I had a new identical bike). On my first ride on the new bike I see the old one outside a cafe. I phoned my friends and the police and locked my new bike to the old one. A big guy started kicking off about 'his bike'. My mates arrived and all hell broke lose. The police were next to useless. I was able to prove the bike was mine but they let the big **** go and then they made a big thing about me contacting the insurance company. I contacted the insurance company and they let me keep both bikes. These were +£1k bikes.
But your question is more about your injured masculinity right? You felt weak cos you didn't kick off ninja style? Don't beat yourself up. We're not all ninjas.
Well im not some big testosterone fueled hero but when I saw a scrote sat on my bike I ran up behind him and grabbed the seat post stays really hard and he jumped off. He was bigger than me and less than half my age - but I figure I was angry enough to try. Glad I did I got my bike back and amazed the police
Doubt he relished me in full on screaming banshee mode - he really didnt put up much of a struggle and startes trying to say hed bought it off someone etc
At least you know what area hes in - tell the police
I wouldn't go and just take it from them. They may not be the original thief and could be innocent.
I'd follow them and call the police but add a few phrases like "i think i saw drugs" or "i think i heard them say something about a gun". That will speed up the polices response. Then show them the photos of it on my phone. If no police show soon and it's just a kid i guess i'd like to take it off them but i've never been in that situation.
To be quite frank i couldn't care who the original thief was it was my bike and I was taking it back. If I was in the same position now I would do exactly the same. Its very unusual to see the bike again so I wasn't going to miss my chance.
Exactly a year and a month to the day I had my bike stolen from outside a pub, the scrote was on CCTV hack sawing the lock off but hoodie up he could not be identified, I drove around hoping to spot my on one ss but luckily didn't spot it as I would of reclaimed it with menace. Got shown a pic this eve of a poor guys retro full sus Whyte that was nicked from Llandudno but he's visited all the pubs in hope someone spots it offering £100 reward. More sensible way to go about getting a bike back.
Had 4 bikes stolen back in 2008. Got one back via Ebay / police involvement, and got another back after seeing someone riding it - custom frame so couldn't mistake it. Whizzed back and pulled in just as the chap was heading off down a bridleway, confronted him and explained he was on my bike, it was custom, proto frame too (complete with "Proto" etched into the bb), which I showed him. Gave him the choice of handing it over or we call the police to sort it, he handed it over fairly quickly. He did say he purchased it off someone, which may have been true, not my problem though. He did keep making eye contact with his friend and there was a slight moment when I thought it was all going to go to crap, guess it was my lucky day. Incidently, his mate was on a Hardrock, my Thomson stem was on that and the OEM Modus Hardrock stem was on my bike - I told his mate he could keep the stem though 🙂
I once saw a previously-stolen bike belonging to a mate of mine outside a shop, just leaning up against the railing, unlocked. I jumped on, then sprinted away down Withington high street, being chased by a very, very, angry scrote. I don't think my heart has ever raced so quickly!
I would beat the guy like a red headed step child
When mine was stolen (built up myself on a hand sprayed Marin frame) from my garage a few years back I sang like canary to the old bill about my lack of security & open doors (reporting while still pissed)so couldn't claim on the insurance so wrote it off, a few weeks later I got a call from a mate who's right up there on the nutter scale saying he knew who had my bike & would take me round but would cost me £100 to get it back. On the way there he confirmed I had a £100, insisted I payed as bloke who had bike was even bigger nutter & suggested we got out as quick as poss. Nutter 2 was apologetic about charging me for my own bike but insisted that's what he had payed for it from some smack heads so was merely passing the charge back on to me, I was furious about the situation but respected my mates opinion, my anger soon faded when I found out that nutter 2 had stuck an axe in a guys head after a pub brawl only a week before... rode that bike today on a great solo adventure in the Preslli hills, didn't give the 1'er a single thought !!
This thread has made me wonder if Oggy ever got his 4X bike back, and if so, the circumstances that led to the recovery. Sadly, I don't think that information would ever make it into the public domain.
Drive alongside, grab bike, accelerate towards Tower bridge, release scrote & brake sharply. Watch as scrote acheives air. Lots of air.
This plan does assume left hand drive car, you & scrote happen to be in London, & perfect synchronisation with bridge etc.
Not a bike, but I did once find someone trying to get in through my kitchen window.
I gave chase without thinking, it's just what you do when you see a burglar. He got away.
Heading back to the house I was then thinking "what would I have done if I had actualy caught him?" Hadn't thought that far ahead.
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To answer the OP I suspect I would have a go at him. I don't know if it would end well...
Beat him an take bike he's not gona say anything an he will get away with it if you use cops
My old man caught some scrotes attempting to nab his car speakers in the middle of the night once. He chased them dressed in nothing but jeans and odd trainers whilst my mum stood at the end of the driveway with a rottweiler that simply did not want to be there (she was propped against the wall to stay awake). He did actually catch one, but only threatened not to come back (which they never)as they were teens and he was about 40.
Phone the Police, then follow and try and take pics. I wouldn't try and stop them.
If they are in to nicking bikes, they probably nick other stuff and do crime for a career so I would be surprised if the Police wouldn't be very interested.
Me and a mate "mugged" a bunch of kids for their bikes many years ago.
I say "their" bikes, they'd just stolen a load of track bikes from the lock-ups at Herne Hill velodrome - they were hire bikes and very distinctive. My mate worked at HH at the time and he'd got a call from a local saying he'd seen a bunch about about 6 kids riding these nicked bikes through Dulwich Village. We jumped in the car, headed down there and sure enough they were just exiting Dulwich Park as we drove up.
He braked in front of them and naturally they all fell off. It was quite funny really, none of them could ride the brakeless fixed gear and in trying to ride off pushing a 90+ inch gear they just stalled. We got all the bikes back no probs although one of the scrotes blustered a bit about "calling his Dad", they all just ran off.
Thinking about it, it was very foolish off us. If they'd have actually thought about it, 6 of them could have beaten the shit out of us in no time.
You're assuming (as i would) that they were hot. Lovely girls, but they were sponsored by a local dog food company
I almost choked on my tea reading that! 😀
http://p.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/aug/27/vancouver-woman-steals-her-stolen-bike-back-after-/
Top girl
The way I see it is that scrotes buying nicked bikes of other scrotes are only just slightly down in the pecking order of scroteyness. I'd have no problem taking a bike of a guy that handed over cash for a nicked bike sold buy a well dodgy geezer.
I had my first proper bike, an Orange Gringo, nicked from our garage whilst we were away over Christmas years ago. I still look out for it now!
Cheers,
Jamie