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My bike was stolen (2017)
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Re: My bike was stolen (2017)
#52Earlier quoted context omitted.
around 1996 I had my bike, locked up on campus at my University, stolen from a campus bike rack, by the campus police, in essentially a new-employee fuckup. My bike was in the database, labelled, serial number registered. So i reported it stolen, they facepalmed and said they took it off a campus bike rack (cutting the lock), and sold it, with others, at a campus auction. I found it locked up at the engineering libra…
So they just take bikes that arnt registered with them? That seems very aggressive and strange to me to begin with. I've never heard of trying to tax bycicles like that.
University is the key. They're often trying to deal with absolute masses of bikes but even so this sounds like an overreach (and probably should have been handled via small claims court or similar).
Re: My bike was stolen (2017)
#53I was waiting for the story to end with “the police impounded my bike for evidence, so I still don’t have my bike.” Nice that it actually worked out for him.
Re: My bike was stolen (2017)
#54A long time ago I had a bicycle stolen. I had registered the bike with the city as "required" had filled out a police report with license number and serial number. Found the bike locked up in town on a Friday night. Flagged down a police officer and told him about the bicycle theft, police report and had a copy of the paperwork with all the relevant info. Cops reply: I can't get a locksmith out until Monday. Went hom…
> Even if you do all the work for them, cops are useless for bicycles... It's not just bicycles.
Anyone who thinks cops will help recover stolen items has never had an item stolen.
If you're really lucky you might get a call back someday on a car.
Re: My bike was stolen (2017)
#55I could not even imagine the police getting off their butts to do anything about a stolen bike, much less going along with a regular person's investigation. Great work, I wish more police were willing to actually do things when members of the public take the initiative
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Re: My bike was stolen (2017)
#56Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yeah this is an amazing story. The only bike theft I've ever heard of where the police actually did something. It does reconfirm just how little they care about bike theft though - literally all they had to do was email the thief and he would come to them! But no even that is too much work.
The frustrating thing is that if the police even occasionally stung bike thieves, theft would likely decrease disproportionately. Something about not having total impunity…
They do that in NL, google 'lokfiets'. In NL stealing a bike puts you at roughly the same level as a horse thief in the Wild West. We just don't hang them from trees. Unfortunately here too the police is often too busy with more important work to go after stolen bikes but since the really bad days (the 80's) bike theft here has definitely gone down. I still wouldn't leave a high value bike (say a newish e-bike or a nice racer) out of my sight though.
Re: My bike was stolen (2017)
#57I wish bike manufacturers would start including GPS devices into the frames of high-end bikes. The devices would need some access to insert SIMs and charge them and then it should act as a deterrent.
My Van Moof bike has this, they even offer an additional service where they go and get the bike back for you
Does this service involve very large men all wearing black and ear pieces?
Re: My bike was stolen (2017)
#58I was just wondering, wether airtags or similar technology would be helpful in this kind of situation
There are special devices like BikeFinder[0] as well. Where I live it give you a reduced price on insurance. Worth it if you have an expensive e-bike for commuting etc that you often have to park outside. It has some more features than an airtag: It can phone home itself without being near a phone, can alert you the moment the bike is moved etc.
Re: My bike was stolen (2017)
#59I had the same bike stolen twice and was able to find it on Facebook marketplace both times. The key is to file a police report and make sure you have the serial number of the bike. Without these, the police will not help. Once you find your bike, message the person, negotiate, set-up a meet up, and then get the police involved. Although we caught the guys selling the stolen bikes red-handed, the police couldn’t do a…
Had same story, except at the meet up, the cops arrested the bike thief. It might have helped that the cop recognized both the thief and thief’s “back up” muscle guy hanging out ~30’ away, ordering him by name to walk away as he approached.
Re: My bike was stolen (2017)
#60Glad this had a happy ending. I'm still torn up about my own bike, stolen in broad daylight. It was my fault - it wasn't locked up. It was an old bonded aluminum frame Trek, it squeaked when you bore down on it but it was upgraded and tweaked just the way I like it. I haven't felt the same about cycling since.
> It was my fault - it wasn't locked up. Pretty sure it's still the thief's fault. (I dunno, maybe you were in Amsterdam at the time.)
Yeah, it might not be smart to leave a bike or car unlocked, but it is till the thief's fault it got stolen.