Would the police be more interested if the theft was a handbag or shop till or a car
Petty theft innit. £8,000 of petty theft. It really sucks being a cyclist in the UK 🙁
OP. Those two pics are definitely the same person. Have you got a plan because you you need to be fast. No idea how many people use STW, but I doubt they are all angels. It also comes up high on Google for many things so the chances of your man seeing this thread aren't ifinitisimally small.
There's certainly a strong resemblance, not sure I'd be comfortable saying that they're *definitely* the same person, though.
Would the police be more interested if the theft was a handbag or shop till or a car?
We had some cops pull up in the village issuing parking tickets, I went out and asked them to look at cctv of some shoplifters, they couldn't because they were "too busy"
Two random people giving same name. One of which said that car will be on fake plates... Sure enough stw was right
👊
Hope you catch the bastard red handed 👍
Hope you get your bike back.
Do you have a photo of the guy with your bike?
Full CCTV of the act
Good luck OP
Just seen your update on Ride Sheffield @wysiwyg, hope you get it sorted. I’d be inclined to have the cops deal with it or at least present if you do decide to go round…
Would the police be more interested if the theft was a handbag or shop till or a car?
If it was Boris Johnsons cheapo runabout they'd probably have it located in a matter of hours, or go round team handed if anyone reported a single individual as being seen with it.
I’ll just leave this here.
As Kryten once said “smug mode engaged”
wow - did you get it back as well ? RESULT !
Alas no, but ever the optimist.
Getting this far was quite a feat.
Could you summarise please, for those of us without facebook? Genuinely interested.
@wysiwyg are these the perps or are you just thrilled to see bike thieves taken down?
Good news all the same! But the raid on Snakeskin in Saddleworth just shows the crims expending yet more effort on nicking posh bikes.
Non-facebookists
Long story short, initially the police weren’t interested as the skoda was on false plates. So I tracked him down, the car above was his everyday driver, the police actually did something with the huge amount of info I gave and conducted a sting and raid.
Good on you for persevering.
Shame the police were so utterly pathetic before that.
Well done dude I’ll buy you a pint!
wysiwyg - good on you!
Shame on police - until they acted on your information; their fb post is, unsurprisingly, presented as all their own work but you did all the legwork.
Next step - will there be a prosecution and what (unduly lenient) sentence will they get?
I am not the only person who now has to say no comment as i know a posse of thieves keep on eye on various fb groups looking for bikes. So maybe on here. Ongoing case etc.
Just very glad someone got done and the police are pushing hard
Just very glad someone got done and the police are pushing hard
Are they? By the sounds of it, you handed them the info on a plate that they couldn't simply ignore.
I mean, it's great and well done for doing it. But do the police deserve any credit?
They’re pushing the CPS hard should I say. Now there’s an officer specifically to keep him in.
Great news & very well done wysiwyg 👍
Well done..
I, for the vast majority, respect the police..
But, I too have been in a similar situation.
2 women used fake names and addresses stole over £1k worth of stuff off our small business (years ago). I had a mobile phone number and a dropped return receipt from 'furniture village' to go on.
Managed to find out:
A real name
a real address
I literally handed the case to the local police. They said "no crime had been committed".
FFS!
Good luck OP
DrP
ridiculous/scandalous that the police wouldnt investigate the initial crime and it took you doing some sherlock holmes work on their behalf to give them enough info to go on and eventually catch them.
I wonder how many other 'minor' crimes are also treated in the same way by the police.
I wonder how many other ‘minor’ crimes are also treated in the same way by the police
I'd hazard a guess on something approximating 100%, but given the decimation in police numbers and resources a few years ago, it's hardly a surprise. Was it 20,000 new police officers? (nearly enough to make up the previous losses) they're going to take some time to train and deploy, but even then probably still not sufficient for nicked bikes.
I am not the only person who now has to say no comment as i know a posse of thieves keep on eye on various fb groups looking for bikes. So maybe on here. Ongoing case etc.
looking for bikes... finding out people with an online alias have nice bikes somewhere within the UK... and then?
Unless there is a "Santa Cruz owners ride, finish 5pm at the Stag and hounds, sling your bike in the pub beer garden while we go inside" how are they looking for bikes on Facebook?
I wonder how many other ‘minor’ crimes are also treated in the same way by the police.
Not quite the same, but equally despairing:
A few years ago I got smashed off my bike riding up Green Lanes in London. It was pretty nasty, I was doing about 15mph along a straight road, a car swerved into me, I hit the kerb, smacked my head on a bin and cracked my helmet. Multiple witnesses.
After waiting for ages in the station to give a statement, it turned out that - because the Land Rover had fake plates - the police said 'there's nothing we can do'...
Unless there is a “Santa Cruz owners ride, finish 5pm at the Stag and hounds, sling your bike in the pub beer garden while we go inside” how are they looking for bikes on Facebook?
Find out who’s got a nice bike, where you’re riding and where the spots are and follow you home/to the pub. If I can find an address using the Internet I’m sure organised criminals can.
Unless there is a “Santa Cruz owners ride, finish 5pm at the Stag and hounds, sling your bike in the pub beer garden while we go inside” how are they looking for bikes on Facebook?
Its not hard to get a pretty good idea of wehre some nice bikes might be with the internet tools available to us:
https://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/mnpr-6th-sept/
Unless there is a “Santa Cruz owners ride, finish 5pm at the Stag and hounds, sling your bike in the pub beer garden while we go inside” how are they looking for bikes on Facebook?
I'm gonna be bold and suggest (at the risk of thieves learning a revolutionary new technique) that ten minutes on one of these groups will yield a haul of names, approximate locations and bikes (whoa you can even ask "looking for inspiration, show me your Hightowers" and get them all in one place) . Another ten minutes will give you at least a couple of well know activity tracker accounts that are open / insecure, and a further ten minutes will show you the exact location of those bikes. If the yield is low a search of other open sources of info on the internet will give you the actual addresses of 'the marks'.
Of course the OP in this thread, wysiwyg was the victim of an opportunist, but undoubtedly one who recognises there's a ton of posh bikes floating around the Hope Valley on a weekend.
the victim of an opportunist,
The actual theft was opportunistic, but he had planned where he was going and where there were likely to be bikes. This is his job it seems
I'm convinced that I was targeted because of posting pictures online. I've lived in my street for only 18 months. It's a quiet close with no passing traffic, no way to walk through or take a short cut, bikes have never been outside. I posted a couple of pictures of my rare and distinctive car on Instagram and soon after a car full of blockheads turned up and ripped my garage open. They came straight to my house and left with my bikes and didn't bother anyone else. There's absolutely no way they could have know what was in there unless they just got incredibly lucky.
No more posting pictures of bikes or cars online for me. I was done with instagram anyway, this was just the push I needed to bin it.
I live in Sheffield ride at Derwent every weekend - a year ago had a brand new Santa Cruz Bronson (mint coloured) delivered to my address, the courier placed the bike in my garage 80 metres from my flat. I'd been out on my wifes Canyon e MTB, came home took the Bronson out of the box, put the Hope pedals on, put a cable lock on the Bronson and locked the garage up around 5:30pm.
Next morning opened the garage and a big hole had been smashed in the back garage wall and the Bronson and Canyon ebike both gone ! Thieves left behind a sledgehammer and a crowbar and snipped my Spottracker off the Canyon.
The Bronson was on Stifs (Harrogate) Facebook page (November 14 ish 2020). Neither the Bronson or the Canyon ever seen again, although I'm hoping it may be connected to this arrest.
