Stolen Bike - Update!

[SaMAlex]

Del, PM on its way......

Oh I like the sound of that. Like sending "The Wolf" to clear up a problem

[thebigdog]

Hi Del

what a piss take mate,having your bike stolen......then the rozzers selling it on later....cant believe it!!

I say if we all paypal you a tenner then you should have enough funds to buy it back off ebay........although thats not the friggin point!!

I hope you sort this mate(thumbs up) and keep us posted on your progress in this matter.

p.s i dont suppose you postcode marked the bike did you??

Matt

[TwoBobRob]

Del, PM on its way......

Oh I like the sound of that. Like sending "The Wolf" to clear up a problem

Whilst I'd like to be compared to Winston Wolf, I'm actually much more like Wile E. Coyote...........

[JT71]

Del, PM on its way......

Oh I like the sound of that. Like sending "The Wolf" to clear up a problem

Whilst I'd like to be compared to Winston Wolf, I'm actually much more like Wile E. Coyote...........

can you get me some ACME tnt and ACME "Tunnel" paint, you know, to paint a tunnel on a brick wall?

Winston wolf: if I'm curt with you it's because time is a factor, so pretty please, with cherries on, clean the f*cking car.

Come on Rob, tell us, have you some "connections" that's gonna help retrieve the bike.


Oh and Del, the fact that this bloke is a mate of someone you work with is just his hard luck, and your good luck. there should now be no obstacles to getting the bike back.

[Frosty]

:: JT just seen the GLC lyrics at the foot of your post - they are classic, soap bar and roller disco two of my faves.

Del, if the peelers say the bike no longer belongs to you, then get on to the media etc - just typical of the way law and order is (not) working in the UK at present.

That said I must congratulate the coppers down our way, when the missus and my cars were pilfered from they managed to call round get our statements in 24 hours and catch the twat in 48!!!!

[Mattdub]

SHOCKER !!

The Police have sold stolen goods , your colleagues work mate has purchased stolen goods ! .

Sounds reasonably cut & dried when put like above .

He cannot lawfully put it on ebay as "his" property .

[dazza]

go and get it back , still your property . phone the police and give them shite .,

[sonic-1]

for all inter nerds  go look at the definition of theft !!!!!! im sure that will clear it up !!!

[jimwise68]

Phone the Sun, phone the local press.

Police handling stolen goods, what a great story. Irony at its best.

Sorry to hear about your loss, but  this will make a big noise in the tabloids.

No wonder they are trying to get a payrise if they have to resort to selling stolen goods. What happens to the money from their jumble sale?

Tell them you want to press charges against the whole station so they can all do a bit of time. fookers

[OrgasmDonor]

not wantin to throw a spanner in the works, but if you got any insurance pay out off it, it will not legally be your bike anymore, i'tl be the insurance companies, so don't let on if ya did. ive only scimmed through this thread, so if this has already been mentioned just ignore it.

[HEYWOOD BMX]

  I had a £1500 S&M RV stolen a few years ago-out on it`s maiden ride,so I fully appreciate how it feels to lose such a great bike.Shows how bloody incompetant the police can be.Really hope that you get it back asap.The guy who has it now needs to wake up and do the right thing.

                  All the best,



                     James

[Del]

Daz - there was no insurance payout on the bike as it wasnt covered at the time so i have no worries there.

[the_cyclops]

Daz - there was no insurance payout on the bike as it wasnt covered at the time so i have no worries there.

I was going to mention the Insurance payout situation as once paid out the item becomes property of the insurance company (not the Police!)

As that is not the case then the item is still yours and not only have the Police not done their job by not returning it to you (can you prove that you are the rightful owner?) then they indeed have broken the law by selling stolen goods!

I would march into the Police station and inform them that you would like to report aincedent of someone selling and someone receiving stolen goods......make it official and tell them that your Solicitor has been informed!

Its a tricky one going up against the Police but as someone else has mentioned contact the local pres and tell them the whole story especially if you have names and badge numbers!

[Why isnt this working]

Mate, that just goes to show what a f*ckin state this country is in.
Its the most f*ckin ridiculous story i have ever heard, infact im finding it truely fu*king unbelivable to take in, to the point where im starting to think that it is untrue, even though i dont think its untrue!!!!!!!. I woke up at 5.30a.m this morning to the sound of a lorry  rumbling outside the back off my house where i keep two of my work trucks. It was a bunch of " do as you likeys " breaking into the back of one of them. I phoned the police to tell them that  they were nickin something and i needed them to come over. They started to question whether or not this was actualy happening so i told them that iff they didnt come over i would go out there myself with half a scafold pole and sort the problem out myself, then they told me that they were on there way over to arrest me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!.
I just give up, and im so pissed off about your bike. It makes me want to go to that police station and set about them all.
Im sorry, and i know its totally childish and the wrong attitude but it riles me to the core. Were the bloody hell has commen sence gone. Human rights and all that shite, f*ck off.

Si.

[Flatcap]

Anyone takes anything of mine will meet my friend P-A-I-N! I care not a jot about getting charged with assault, if they take mt stuff I will take their kneecaps and more, if they hurt my wife and children I will take MUCH more and they'd wish they'd never met me. I would inflict a level of pain on them that they think it physically impossible. I would quite happily go to court and tell them if it was to happen again I would do it again and if I got time I'd serve it happy in the knowledge that I'd confronted the people who wronged me or my family. If I didn't I couldn't look myself in the mirror!

Sorry guys I might sound arrogant but that's the way it is!

Daz.

[generallee]

Bloody Hell Del, I had no idea youd had bikes nicked - and then fund this one again! Thats totally and utterly out of order that the bloke who now has it wont consider selling it back to you. If I bought a bike that was then irrefutably a nicked one, Id never for a moment not consider either giving back or at tleast getting my money back and selling to the rightful owner. As for the police, they owe you big time mate, if its been logged as stolen, a case was opened, then they sold what they should have been 'looking' for, then they may owe you the small amount they got for it... but perhaps dont hold your breath.
hope it all turns out ok mate.
steve

[CD17]

Feck Del Iv just read all this, there are a few things you could do..
1 Win it on ebay then give the bill to the (useless cnuts) sorry Police
2 Inform ebay when it goes on there that it is your bike & so its stolen property
3 get hold of the Police & ask them what the feck they are playing at & what they are going to do to put it right
4 Go to the press, in fact do this anyway, this should help there claim for a pay rise

BTW Del, I would be happy to send you £10 to get your bike back.

[thebigdog]

Out of interest Del what else got stolen mate? That thing I posted on here the other day with the 24" Skyways was on a police auction site

[JT71]

BTW Del, I would be happy to send you £10 to get your bike back.

me too.

[Trev]

Del, you need to get this sorted straight away with the police. Pester them four or fives times a day until you get an answer.  Get advice from the Citizen's Advice Bureau too.
I wouldn't go down the path of buying it on eBay then trying to claim your money back, as you'll probably lose out and it may cost you a small fortune. If it does reach eBay and to avoid it getting moved on to someone else, report it to eBay straightaway as the seller is selling stolen goods. That way eBay should pull it straightaway and at least you'll still know where it is.

If the legal way doesn't work, then send a few of the lads round to "collect it" for you.  At the end of the day, you can't get nicked for taking what is yours. This guy would have to claim against the Police to get his money back as it would be nothing to do with you.

Also a word of advice for everyone here. It would be a good idea to get pictures of all your rides. I know most of you do anyway, to show them on here. But if you could get also get yourself in the pics, then that is better proof that it is your property.

Good luck with it all Del. 

[Why isnt this working]

Im still just totally dumbfounded and havnt stoped thinking about this all day.
Del, dont ring the police, go down to your local police station and speak to an officer to explain exactly what has happened face to face. After you conversation make sure you get a crime refrence number and like other members of this website have said mention going to the papers. I just really cant get my head round the whole story, it is unbelivable. Im so shocked about what has happened to the point that if that bike dos'nt come back to you i am going to put some sort of pertition or document together myself to the police and make the story heard where it needs to be heard. Im furious about it and like i said if it dosnt come back we all need to throw our waight behind this 110%. Read what has happend, its f*cking bonkers. Im lost for words. THE POLICE ARE HANDELING STOLEN GOODS AND TRYING TO SELL THEM ON IN A POLICE RAFFEL.
What is going on.

SI.

[TwoBobRob]

Whats entirely more likely is that the bike was handed in as found property, never claimed, and subsequently auctioned off.

The problem being that the police's left and right hands are clearly not familiar with each other...

My problem with the whole thing is that the bloke who has it now is refusing to give it to its rightful owner. That stinks as far as I'm concerned. I almost expect the old bill to fcuk it up, but for someone to keep hold of something that he KNOWS belongs to somebody else; well its's just plain wrong in my book.

[Flatcap]

My problem with the whole thing is that the bloke who has it now is refusing to give it to its rightful owner

Me too Rob, I said that in an earlier post, I can't believe someone could be such a dick! If it was me and I'd bought it in good faith and then someone approached me saying it was theirs and they could rightfully prove it I'd be more than happy to pass it back. What a cnut he is!

Daz. 

[Del]

Latest Update....

The guy is now willing to give me the bike back, I've had a lengthy conversation with him. Hopefully it will be back with me early next week along with the auction receipt... so not such a bad guy after all.

The rozzers are not getting away with it, I'm still going to make a formal complaint as soon as the bike is back in my hands... at least he's not trying to sell it on to someone else.

[MartyC]

Latest Update....

The guy is now willing to give me the bike back, I've had a lengthy conversation with him. Hopefully it will be back with me early next week along with the auction receipt... so not such a bad guy after all.

The rozzers are not getting away with it, I'm still going to make a formal complaint as soon as the bike is back in my hands... at least he's not trying to sell it on to someone else.

Fantastic news Del, well done for your persevernce