Came home from the pub to see a distinctive bike chained to the railings near my flat. I shall not go into specifics, but it was deffinitely mentioned in the local police press release a few weeks ago as being stolen. I rang the new number: 101. Two nice policemen arrived 15 minutes later. Bike has just been removed from the railings with bolt croppers and placed in the back of a Police Transit van, hopefully to be reunited with its owner. If you get your bike back tomorrow, you can buy me a beer when you see me. Night.
Good work Sir!
I can see a topic tomorrow " thieving cops nicked my bike using bolt croppers..." if the bike was legit!
good work!
Think stw towers should put up a sticky thread just for stolen bikes .
good effort. 🙂
where was this?
Cheltenham. Nr the JollyB 😉
well done! Wonder what bike thieves do when their stolen bike gets stolen? Call the police? lol.
Nice to see you were arsed to make the effort,good work!
well done! Wonder what bike thieves do when their stolen bike gets stolen? Call the police? lol.
There's a paradox and the universe implodes.
It's like crossing the streams in Ghostbusters.
yes im finally gonna get my rockhopper back *stolen 6 months ago in glos*
*waits in hope*
top karma to you though for doing the right thing!
Sorry v666, It wasn't a Spesh that I rang in. It was some retro bike pron that was probably someone's project/pub bike. I suspect the tea leafs didn't quite know what they had, as it likely looked liked a 100 quid FS Apollo to them.
ill still keep checking gumtree/ebay/auction sites daily then...!
top work all the same though! 😀
Think stw towers should put up a sticky thread just for stolen bikes .
Or do what I did, start a blog, FB and Twitter account. Potentially a much wider reach than just one forum.
http://www.stolenbristolbikes.com/
Or there's a national register, free to use, here:
ill still keep checking gumtree/ebay/auction sites daily then...!
On eBay, you can set up a saved search for "Specialized Rockhopper" (you might also want to include misspellings like "Specalized" given many bike thieves' spelling ability). Just enter your search term, then click "save search".
It'll email you with a picture of the listing every time a new one is added. If your bike pops up, put a massive bid on it, and contact the police.
You can do something similar on Gumtree too.
local police press release a few weeks ago as being stolen
where would one find this...is it displayed in the local rag?
I once stole a stolen bike. I saw my housemate's bike (which had been stolen from our house a few months earlier) just leaning up against some railings outside a bookies. So I picked it up, and pedalled off, with some mangy heroin-addicted scroat chasing after me. I think that's the fastest my hearts ever raced, but I managed to get away from him (thankfully the bike was still in good working order).
Later, we called the police and let them know. Apparently I didn't commit any crime because I took the bike in the knowledge that I was reappropriating stolen goods. The scroat never called the police, obviously knew it was stolen.
I probably wouldn't be that brave now, mind!
Mods: please make a "lost and found" forum
Good work, good citizen!
I've stolen a stolen bike before - had to mug the guy to get it back. Looking back on it, it was very foolhardy as there were about 6 of them and 2 of us so if they'd actually thought about it, they'd easily have kicked the shit out of us. Fortunately, they just scattered, we each grabbed one of them as they rode past.
🙂
local police press release a few weeks ago as being stolen
where would one find this...is it displayed in the local rag?
[url= http://www.gloucestershire.police.uk/Latest%20News/Press%20Releases/item3925.html ]Police Press Releases[/url]
A friend of mine stole his bike back once.. he also stole the desperate thieving heroin addict that was riding it..!!
He chucked bike and rider in the back of his transit and deposited the thief at the local police station much to the surprise of the local constabulary.. he used their confusion as an opportunity to get off home before they started asking funny questions..
He didn't get any comeback from it..