Someone stole my bike...

911 said:
I doubt the police even looked for your bike. A stolen bike goes pretty far down on the list of things to work on solving.
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About 25 years ago, our canoe was stolen. It had been chained to a tree next to a river that flowed past our house. The thieves used bolt cutters to cut the heavy chain.

The policed refused to take a report, saying "it happens all the time". Oh, well in that case I guess it's okay then . . . :rolleyes:
 
When I was around ten or twelve I kept my most valued possessions in a metal ammo box. Arrow heads I had found, even had a tomahawk head, some silver coins I was given, cool stones, I don't remember what else but they were my treasures. I kept the box hidden in the back of this under the stairs closet our house had, you had to crawl to get back in deep, and yet it disappeared. Could have been taken by my older sister, possibly by an older brother but they werent living with us, heck could have been taken by my dad and exchanged for booze money. Over fifty years and it still bothers me.
 
Bike thieves should be hung just like they did to horse thieves back in the old west.
 
Tommy said:
About 25 years ago, our canoe was stolen. It had been chained to a tree next to a river that flowed past our house. The thieves used bolt cutters to cut the heavy chain.

The policed refused to take a report, saying "it happens all the time". Oh, well in that case I guess it's okay then . . . :rolleyes:
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We used to get people reporting their game or trail camera being stolen. How are the police expected to track them down? We check with local pawn shops and the social media pages looking for cameras for sale, but if they aren’t there, we aren’t going to go door to door looking for them.

As long as we have the camera’s serial number, it’s possible they will show up in a local flea market, on eBay, Facebook marketplace or the pawn shop. If they don’t show up in any of those places, we considered them unrecoverable.
 
On my 15th birthday fresh from getting my learner's permit, a friend came by my house. He wanted to call the police as there was most of a motorcycle in an empty field that kids would frequent. When the cruiser arrived he knew who the bike belonged to, his neighbor. The gas tank off this Triumph chopper was missing, but the cop told us it had been green. Is this it just goes to show you, it's who you know, or just a fun anecdote more than 50 years ago.

Why do I pay taxes? I guess it's because I'm not Leona Helmsley.
 
911 said:
We used to get people reporting their game or trail camera being stolen. How are the police expected to track them down? We check with local pawn shops and the social media pages looking for cameras for sale, but if they aren’t there, we aren’t going to go door to door looking for them.

As long as we have the camera’s serial number, it’s possible they will show up in a local flea market, on eBay, Facebook marketplace or the pawn shop. If they don’t show up in any of those places, we considered them unrecoverable.
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It was a nice 14' Grumman aluminum canoe with my driver's license number deeply engraved in a location that wouldn't be readily visible unless one knew where to look. I knew it was unlikely to be recovered, but it bothered me that they wouldn't even take a report, especially because they indicated that this was a common occurrence.
 
In the 1980s, somebody swiped my old beat up Chevy, that you could start with a screwdriver- you didn't need keys. That model was famous for doing that. The thing was I couldn't get it inspected, so I made my own inspection sticker. To give an idea about the car, the rear bumper was held on by coat hangers. The cops called and said they had it.
When I got to the station my car was right in front of the main entrance, with an excellent view of my home made sticker, which every cop had to pass. When I picked up the car, I felt the cops knew about the sticker, but they didn't say anything. . In fact, they wouldn't say how they got the car. I asked several times. I always thought it was an important somebody's kid, who swiped the car.
 
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Back when I was a child, after going to church, we came out and someone stole our old car. It turned out to be teenagers and recovered by the police. It was almost a blessing it was stolen but Mom needed a car to go to work and had it fixed. My father worked in another country and wasn't home then.
 
papa tiger said:
Did they leave the car on cement blocks like a prank? ... :coffee: ... Tires In the dumpster?
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yah, it was on blocks. the parking lot was in a field with tall grass around it. i actually got in the car and started it and the guy parked next to me, rolled down his window and said, "uhhh miss, u have no wheels". um what? my husband ended up going to a junk yard to get rims and whatever else to fix it.
 
As a kid growing up in a small town in the Colorado mountains, I had multiple bikes stolen. I ran a paper route which allowed me to make money for bikes and other necessities for a kid! Of course, when my bike got stolen, I had to walk my morning paper route, until I make enough money to buy another one.

In one case I had a fairly new ten-speed stolen right out of our garage, it also had a chain and lock on it. I finally, quit the paper route and gave up on buying another bike. The town I lived in had a small college in it and I am pretty sure the kids in that college where the ones taking my bikes. Other guys in my class had similar experiences, but the local police were of no help...

Luckily, when the summer after 8th grade came, we moved to a larger town, and I never had another bike stolen...
 

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