Author Topic: honestly I'm not a thief, but i saw this bike....UPDATED!!!!! (Read 5410 times)

tricknuts · « **on:** July 05, 2008, 07:58 AM »

Its a mongoose decade. It was padlocked to a railing outside of a supermarket this evening. The rear tyre was flat and hanging off the rim.
I wouldn't normally dream of taking someone else's bike, but i think this has been abandoned. I would hate to take it if the owner was intending to return for it, but on the other hand, i'd hate for the supermarket to get their maintenance man to trash it in the skip.

what should I do? I'm thinking about giving it 2 days. if its still there, cut off the padlock and keep it? Dunno if its even worth nicking. If it was a CC prolite, i would be gnawing through the padlock with my teeth.

harris · « **Reply #1 on:** July 05, 2008, 08:05 AM »

hmmmmm dont take it but maybe put a sticker with some info on it or a contact of sorts

firebird · « **Reply #2 on:** July 05, 2008, 08:08 AM »

looks like someones had the brake blocks off already

brass monkey! · « **Reply #3 on:** July 05, 2008, 08:17 AM »

i'd do what dan says,........

...could be young kids, who left it there cos he got a puncture, maybe it's claimable if it's still there in a week?

problem is some chav will have nicked it before then anyway...

brass monkey! · « **Reply #4 on:** July 05, 2008, 08:18 AM »

....alternatively, just take a bit home at a time

stuntmaster · « **Reply #5 on:** July 05, 2008, 08:49 AM »

looks nice as well

magna13 · « **Reply #6 on:** July 05, 2008, 10:33 AM »

I Dunno What I'd Do! It Does Look In Very Good Nick

priv · « **Reply #7 on:** July 05, 2008, 10:48 AM »

check for CCTV if none about just nick it,fcuk 'em.

priv

HEYWOOD BMX · « **Reply #8 on:** July 05, 2008, 11:07 AM »

Tough call...I know a place where there is a Hoffman Flash chained up,been there for months.I just can`t go and take it.Maybe I`ll pay a chav a fiver and get him to do the deed.Then I`d be consumed with guilt.......

firebird · « **Reply #9 on:** July 05, 2008, 11:35 AM »

is it on the grounds of the supermarket? i would go in and ask them, see what they say.

moley · « **Reply #10 on:** July 05, 2008, 11:37 AM »

Take the bike!!!

Leave a message to an untraceable Phone Number (pay as you go) stating that you took the bike for safe keeping and if you want it back just give me a call and it will be handed over free of charge. Do not mention the make and model of the bike in the message.

Whenever you visit the store stick up a new message (if the old one has been removed).

If someone claims it and tells you the make and model and they can describe it correctly then you can hand over the bike.

If not then it is yours.

If anyone asks who cut the lock then tell them that a couple of chavs did it and you stopped them and they ran off. You only took the bike it keep it safe.

Just make sure you dont get caught on CCTV

nosepickben · « **Reply #11 on:** July 05, 2008, 11:43 AM »

^^ that sounds like a plan....

if you had left your crappy, uncared for bike chained up in a busy place with a crappy lock like that, would you be surprised if it got nicked...? I wouldn't.

It's probably gonna be a student's bike that got left there when he/she was pissed + now can't remember where it is or mabye it was the only treasured possesion of an orphan who is now in intensive care at local hospital after being knocked down by a bus when picking up small change in the road shortly after he/she chained it up with his lock that took a year to save up for.....

moley · « **Reply #12 on:** July 05, 2008, 12:05 PM »

Quote from: nosepickben on July 05, 2008, 11:43 AM

It's probably gonna be a student's bike that got left there when he/she was pissed + now can't remember where it is or mabye it was the only treasured possesion of an orphan who is now in intensive care at local hospital after being knocked down by a bus when picking up small change in the road shortly after he/she chained it up with his lock that took a year to save up for.....

jackel · « **Reply #13 on:** July 05, 2008, 12:10 PM »

Quote from: nosepickben on July 05, 2008, 11:43 AM

^^ that sounds like a plan....

if you had left your crappy, uncared for bike chained up in a busy place with a crappy lock like that, would you be surprised if it got nicked...? I wouldn't.

It's probably gonna be a student's bike that got left there when he/she was pissed + now can't remember where it is or mabye it was the only treasured possesion of an orphan who is now in intensive care at local hospital after being knocked down by a bus when picking up small change in the road shortly after he/she chained it up with his lock that took a year to save up for.....

cool take the bike and give the orphan a pair of crutches to get about on when he/she gets out of icu
fair trade they arent going to be riding it for ages

moley · « **Reply #14 on:** July 05, 2008, 12:23 PM »

Thats a bit tight Jackel.

Give the lad a walking frame!!!!

He'd already get crutches on the NHS!!

jackel · « **Reply #15 on:** July 05, 2008, 12:27 PM »

Quote from: moley on July 05, 2008, 12:23 PM

Thats a bit tight Jackel.

Give the lad a walking frame!!!!

He'd already get crutches on the NHS!!

ohh if the nhs provide him crutches you pay tax to the nhs so fook him youve supplied the crutches and his healthcare in a roundabout way anyway.
so theoretically that bike is quite rightly your

tricknuts · « **Reply #16 on:** July 05, 2008, 04:41 PM »

loved the replies.

I think I'll take it....

jackel · « **Reply #17 on:** July 05, 2008, 05:46 PM »

Quote from: tricknuts on July 05, 2008, 04:41 PM

loved the replies.

I think I'll take it....

not think mate
have to its your right lol
i,m kidding dont point the police this way

tricknuts · « **Reply #18 on:** July 06, 2008, 12:27 AM »

Quote from: jackel on July 05, 2008, 05:46 PM

Quote from: tricknuts on July 05, 2008, 04:41 PM
loved the replies.

I think I'll take it....

not think mate
have to its your right lol
i,m kidding dont point the police this way

i'll tell the cops the jackel made me do it.....

super-craig · « **Reply #19 on:** July 08, 2008, 11:29 PM »

have you got your new bike yet

jackel · « **Reply #20 on:** July 09, 2008, 06:50 PM »

Quote from: tricknuts on July 06, 2008, 12:27 AM

Quote from: jackel on July 05, 2008, 05:46 PM
Quote from: tricknuts on July 05, 2008, 04:41 PM
loved the replies.

I think I'll take it....

not think mate
have to its your right lol
i,m kidding dont point the police this way

i'll tell the cops the jackel made me do it.....

lol funnily enough that wouldnt be the first time thats happened

and yep come on bikage report please

tricknuts · « **Reply #21 on:** July 10, 2008, 04:49 AM »

well. I went back there on Sunday night and it was still there. Only problem was I went into the store (as it was still open) and the lad who served me looked like a rider. I got it into my head that it might be his ( dont' ask why- criminals guilt I guess)- and I haven't even nicked it yet. I thought about asking him if he owned it, but then thought, as soon as I mention it even if its not his, then he'll know I nabbed it.

So I didn't take it.

yet...

i'd be a shite bank robber

Jt · « **Reply #22 on:** July 10, 2008, 09:13 AM »

just take the fooker

feel guilty when its sat on the bench being resto'd...

then put it back

nosepickben · « **Reply #23 on:** July 10, 2008, 06:32 PM »

go to thw shop again + if you see the guy agin, as him if he rides, say you think you saw him riding nearby. if he does ride, ask him where + what bike does he have.... Don't mention the decade.He'll tell you if it's his.
Shit, by the end of this thread someone else will have nicked it and you'll be crying into your beer.
You really want your back covered don't ya