Is no-one to be trusted any more ?

911 said:
I find that very strange. A good place to start would be the phone number. Take the phone number and try to reverse it to get the company and address. If you give me your home phone number, I could probably get your address, but maybe not your correct name, but I could probably get the name that appears on your phone bill. If you lived here in the U.S. I could get all of your contact information.

Let's say that you have a company here in the U.S. To be in business, you would need to register with the state to collect sales tax and to also pay your taxes, sales and property. The name of your business would have to be registered with the state department of revenue. I could definitely find you and the name of your business through that department. Does your country have a Department of Internal Revenue?

It's weird that you can't get the name of the company. If the police won't help you, you are pretty much on your own.
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No..you misunderstand .. the company is Deliveroo... they sacked the employee who stole the bike after the victim reported the theft .. but they are ignoring requests from the victim to either get the bike back from their ex employee or give details of where she lives
 

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911 said:
Won't the company reimburse the cost of the bike?
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Why would they? She's a zero-hour contractor, and wasn't on the job when she stole it (unless I got that wrong). Even if she were, I'm not sure it's down to Deliveroo.

hollydolly said:
you know some of these bikes now are eye watering prices.. people pay up to £30k for cycle now
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Good for them, but maybe - should you 30K for a bike, you don't leave it outside where it can be taken?
 
VaughanJB said:
Why would they? She's a zero-hour contractor, and wasn't on the job when she stole it (unless I got that wrong). Even if she were, I'm not sure it's down to Deliveroo.



Good for them, but maybe - should you 30K for a bike, you don't leave it outside where it can be taken?
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Sure, smart to take precautions, but we should be careful not to blame the victim for the crime.
 
I see it's hard to get Bike Theft insurance for EV Bicycles. So many get stolen.
My 24-speed mountain bike was stolen in 96 just 15' away from me while I was
drinking a cup of Coffee. 1st one less than $200.

Called the LEO they said they are busy, 3:30 pm. Found my backpack laying on the
street on the way to buying another mountain bike. 2nd one less than $300. Thieves
left me my Filthy Shirt off of my back workday. Betting they didn't like the smell when
they opened the Backpack.

I say they because they must have drove away in a pickup, one to zip open the backpack
and throw it to the right side of the street. America!

You know, that Coffee House didn't get any more of my before / afterwork business.
I lived 6 minutes from work and went past that shop 2 X a day 6 days a week. It was
my stay in shape daily workout. Uphill to work, downhill home.
 
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papa tiger said:
I see it's hard to get Bike Theft insurance for EV Bicycles. So many get stolen.
My 24-speed mountain bike was stolen in 96 just 15' away from me while I was drinking a cup of Coffee.
Found my backpack laying on the street on the way to buying another mountain bike. thieves left me my
Filthy Shirt off of my back workday.
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it would have been nice if the outcome had been in the Video I posted earlier in the thread...
 
I was confounded and shocked years ago after the theft of my bike ... a nice Peugeot bike (not in this town).

Had ridden the bike to a bar because I didn't want to drive. Put a lock on the bike wheel but didn't lock the bike to a stationary object.

Came out of the bar about closing, to find my bike g.o.n.e. gone. Looking around, I see a police car parked over at the edge of the parking lot.

I told the police officer my bike was stolen !!! His reply was, "That happens a lot around here." ... then he just drove off. Didn't ask for a description of the bike or anything.

I looked across the highway and saw a multistory multi-building apartment complex and decided to walk around over there to see if I could spot my bike. At dark-thirty in the morning, I found myself drunk, in an unfamiliar surrounding and not the ideal best part of town. It was eerily quiet in the complex and for no apparent reason about a quarter of the way into the complex, I stopped in my tracks as the hair stood up on the back of my neck even as drunk as I was. Something told me to get the heck out of there ... now. The bike wasn't worth the risk of potential personal injury through a confrontation with someone. I sensed many eyes watching, waiting ... and I got out of there pronto.

Thing is, the wheel was locked immobile on the bike and likely it was tossed into a truck rather than walked away with. I didn't bother to contact the police again. Figured it was useless.
 
Incidents like this (i.e., bicycle theft) make me so, so angry. I just find it mind-boggling that someone thinks it's OK to just take an item that belongs to someone else. 🤬

I hope this case is pursued and the person gets their bike back.
 
It’s surprising that Deliveroo refused to give the name and address to the police. They are partially responsible for hiring a crook.
 
debodun said:
I'm surprised people would do that with all the electronic security homeowners might have.
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it's really mind boggling that so many thieves and vagabonds just don't seem to be concerned these days with Video cameras et al... and we can only to put the reason at the doorstep of the police who barely get off their backside to attend a crime unless you're calling someone a name.
I have sworn that if I get to be a victim of a crime, I'm going to tell them the perp..called me a Racist name... that'll get them out in force... that or the perp had a Pitbull...

yesterday a man was bitten in Wales by a Pitbull or a staffie the reporter wasn't sure .. now, in days gone by someone getting bit by a dog would either just get it seen to themselves or at worst report it to their local police station... not now... 7 Cop cars...7... at the scene for this man being bitten by a dog...yet there's old people being mugged.. cars being stolen right and left... and houses being burgled, mass scamming and theft going on and the country is inundated with illegal immigrants committing crime everywhere... ... and 7 cop cars... that's 14 police out to a dog bite :rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes:
 
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There are some people who will steal just for the sake of stealing. The sad part is that they often get away with it. I guess the police have other, worse crimes to worry about.
 
debodun said:
I heard of a guy that saved his dog's poop for 2 weeks, then wrapped it up to look like a porch delivery and put it out. After that he didn't have any trouble with porch bandits.
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I don't live where there are porch deliveries, but have lived in cities (and visited suburbs) now and again, so I can understand the efficacy of this practice. Only... since different porch bandits might make a foray from time to time, wouldn't a person have to make up a series of little parcels... renewing the contrivance every so often?🤔
 
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Jules said:
It’s surprising that Deliveroo refused to give the name and address to the police. They are partially responsible for hiring a crook.
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yes if I was the boss I would be giving the name asap... however the woman is now saying the Police have become involved... and are investigating so perhaps Deliveroo have given the police the info now...

Just to reiterate the female employee was delivering take away food.. on behalf of deliveroo.. when she stole the bike. No-one said that bike worth £30k... for the hard of reading.. it was said that SOME bikes are worth up to 30k...
 
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There was another person who said a delivery person stole a guitar after they'd made a delivery to a block of flats ( apartments) where they live...as people would, she was asked how the person managed to steal the guitar...

the 'victim'' said she had left the guitar on the landing outside of her door on the first floor...

people rightly questioned why she would leave a guitar outside her home on the landing... and not be prepared for it to be stolen given that it's a public area..in reply, she became belligerent

personally I think she was/is trying to defraud the insurance company...
 
hollydolly said:
Look at this doorbell footage taken last week in the US ...ferkin unbelievable make sure to watch it to the end..
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This one is just amazing. The woman's determination to get those cuttings from the rose bush, rolling and crawling on the ground, no less! And then if she isn't over the top enough, there's the victim's daughter who is as outraged as you might expect over a car thief. She says, the woman stole those cuttings, "On my mother's birthday!" and she's going to keep the woman's crutch and her keys. More than one person in this video has issues.
 
Della said:
This one is just amazing. The woman's determination to get those cuttings from the rose bush, rolling and crawling on the ground, no less! And then if she isn't over the top enough, there's the victim's daughter who is as outraged as you might expect over a car thief. She says, the woman stole those cuttings, "On my mother's birthday!" and she's going to keep the woman's crutch and her keys. More than one person in this video has issues.
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If the old woman was injured, and apparently she was, she can sue the homeowner, I believe.
 
Is it even possible the crutch lady knows the daughter's mother and had permission or implied permission?
Was that the mother's house or the daughter's house?
OR
Is the crutch lady the daughter's mother and we're being played?
 

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