dirty theiving b*****ds

[pickles]

just need to vent a little anger :smt013

this evening some dirty little jobless, clueless, stratty, scrotum barstool thought he'd help himself to my bike.

ok so its only a crappy 125 aprillia habana and worth roughly zilch (invaluble to me for getting me to work and uni quickly) but it's my crappy 125 scooter!!

my neighbour knocked on my door this evening and told me she saw 2 "scraggley" looking lads pushing my bike down the street.

what could they possibly hope for......
1. you couldn't sell it for a tenner
2. they can't ride it on the streets (police aware it's stolen)

so they steel it, wheel it out of sight, smash it up to hotwire it and have a spin round on it till they get bored and then park it in the nearest canal!!! brilliant and well worth the hastle it will cause me no doubt. I spent nearly 2 hours running round the local woods looking for it. as for insurance, probably not covered as it wasn't chained up (i was planning on using it later). they just don't seem to understand that i need that crappy scooter to commute on and that as a poor student i can't afford to replace it.

I just don't get it.... if you want something.... buy it! don't steel mine

i'v had this bike stolen and smashed up before and managed to chase them and recover it and get it back to working order. this time however the police couldn't be less interested i'm told they will be in touch if they need to. i asked if they wanted a statement and was told again 'they will be in touch if they need to'.

well thats my little rant over and i'm sure that more than a few of you have had your pride and joys relieved of you by some scruffy little t**t.

and i suppose just to a reminder, bikes are only too easy to steel and it can be easy to become complacent.

[CB1ROCKET]

I felt exactly the same when that first happened to my scooter. I wonder why the police are not interested, oh yes they are only interested in revenue for the goverment...................

[ThEGr33k]

i'v had this bike stolen and smashed up before and managed to chase them and recover it and get it back to working order. this time however the police couldn't be less interested i'm told they will be in touch if they need to. i asked if they wanted a statement and was told again 'they will be in touch if they need to'.


No offence intended BUT they only seem interested if its a quick easy job requiring litte amount of work. For example road users, quick easy.

I hope you have some luck with this! Id be VERY upset if this happened to me! :smt056

[Fizzy Fish]

bugger, sorry to hear about your bike :(

Fingers crossed that you're able to find it again and it's not in too bad a state. BTW have you considered offering local kids a reward for info about where the bike is? That's worked for a couple of mates of mine in the past, as it's usually kids who take the smaller cc bikes

[Wideboy]

my neighbour knocked on my door this evening and told me she saw 2 "scraggley" looking lads pushing my bike down the street.

and she didn't think to stop them or shout out to them at least :rolleyes:

sorry to hear about your bike mate:(

[pickles]

i know and can completely understand why west yorksire police won't be dispensing all their units to find my bike...... it just sucks thats all!!!!

what really did it for me tho was when the chap on the phone told me that if they did find it they would take it away and store it for safety and fingerprinting or what ever and that i would have to pay 155 pounds as a storage fee and 12 per day there after.

[ThEGr33k]

2. they can't ride it on the streets (police aware it's stolen)


TBH I doubt that... there arnt enough cops to notice. It wont be noticed on the road unless its speeding somewhere. :rolleyes:

[DavieSV]

Sorry to hear about the ped

As for the police, my lad had is moped nicked and we got roughly the same feeling from the police, but, because it went out that it was stolen, the next day a police car saw a moped that fitted the description in a town 12 miles from hear (so they do talk to each other) then the chase started, 3 acrs and they even got the helicopter on it.
They recovered it, it was a bit smashed up & I had to pay over £100 to get it back (only insured 3rd party) but my lad was happy.

There may be hope yet

[pickles]

as i was tearing down the street the girl shouted "well it was about 5 minutes ago" :confused: well at least she did something. more than others would have


once again just a reminder

i used to leave it unlocked on the streets "just for the night" and think nobody would want to nick it. apparently they would.
so i became more vigilant and tucked it away out of sight down the side of the house by my bedroom window, always chained it up when away from the house and only ever left it unchained when it was parked by my window and i intended to use it again soon (lazyness).
apparently this slight lapse is all it takes so please make full use of your chains, alarms and disc locks!

[Beenz]

Well I know how you feel. I had a garage door ripped open (old wooden doors) ripping the lock from the wood, good wood at that. Someone nearby then watches them push both my bikes out and mess about hot wireing them for ten minutes. After they went they popped over and told me they saw me bikes stolen.. but could not really get a good view of the scroats who took em. Just great. That put me out of the middleweight bike fun for 14 years as insurance was telephone numbers high even on small old car it went through the roof so I didn't bother. To be charged recovery AND storage by the law enforcement just rubs salt in the wounds. I just hate this country with the clobber the victim attitude. Rant over.

It don't get any better. :(

[Ratty46]

man i know the feeling! sorry to hear about ya scoot dude:(

my scoot went just before xmas:( it was chained, but not to anything, just through the wheel jobby, it wasnt worth much at all, but i loved it! i had so much fun sodding about on it, and it was my winter work hack.

tonite i have just picked up a w reg trekker100 fromn my cousin, its gona be my new commuter, it has teh integral BOA lock, a wonderfull and ingenius idea from pugeot! as long as its locked to summit solid!

and check this out, we unloaded it from teh van and put it in my back garden, safley away from eyes!....well i was seeing my mates off when two lads appear,' have you seen a kid riding a bike mate' me-wot bike? 'red moped'...just so happend the trekkers red....hmmmmm odd!:confused:

[natcar]

Like the look of the aprilia habana - hope the thieves fall under a HGV.
First bike I had - very nasty russian MZ125 thing- paid £50 and I was living in rough part of Leeds - no chain or ignition lock (I used a teaspoon to start it) and it was stolen about 3 times - usually got dumped by the thieves after about 5 minutes - they must have decided that it wasn't safe or fun - particularly as the front drum brake was full of oil/grease. I would usually just wander down the road and pick it up off the floor in the morning a couple of hundred yards away. It rarely worked at the best of times and they couldnt seem to figure out the fuel reserve. It was crashed/dropped about 15 times (only once by me) yet still sold it on for £50.

[Red Herring]

Mate of mine had a CR500 crosser. He had in nicked twice out of his shed, and both times he found it in the middle of the local Rec where the gits had dumped it after failing to get it started. He didn't have the heart to put a sign on the shed door telling the thieves he always drained the carb and took the main jet out after riding it. Hope the little beggers broke their ankles kicking it....

[pickles]

thanks for all the kind words i don't feel so alone now :smt056

just had a thought tho. the electric start button hasn't worked for about a month or so and it has to be kick started.
if the scrotes were to attempt hotwiring it, would it not be trying to make a connection in the same way as using the start button, and therefore not work on my bike??

just hoping i can go out in the daylight tommorrow and find it abandoned within pushing distance of my house, (fingers crossed) x

[Stig]

Sorry to hear about this. I hate, absolutely hate, thieves.

[Ceri JC]

Sorry to hear this, it is an absolute swine. My garage was broken into recently and scum made off with over £400 worth of tools. Thankfully, they caught him and as he was on bail for a similar offence he spent Christmas in the cells. :D

[wyrdness]

Sorry to hear about your bike, Pickles.

You don't happen to live in Hendon by any chance?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/7178094.stm

That's one less bike-thieving scum around. I feel sorry for the other people who were injured.

Edit: Apparently this happened about a mile from where I live. Local bike thieving scum dead. Result, I'd say. Hope it was the one who nicked my SV.

[PsychoCannon]

Sorry to hear this but take some sollace in this from the Metro This Morning:

A Man died last night after he was struck by a car while being followed by police [On foot].
The Victim *sic* jumped over a fence onto the M1 and was hit by a car, he was one of three men reported to police by a passer by who became suspicious when they were spotted pushing a moped.

The IPCC will investiage the death near J1 of the Motorway [Staples Corner].


IMHO the vicitims are the bike owner and the person in the car, not the scroat and the IPCC shouldn't waste their time too much on this one.

[jambo]

Sorry to hear of this, I'd imagine it's massively frustrating! I've lived in some very high crime areas in the past (apparently mu current area's well above par for bike theft) and know the feeling of going out every morning thinking "will it still be there?"

Hope it turns up, otherwise it'll be the local free adverts I guess....

[jumjum_0214]

Sorry to hear this mate. Fingers crossed it turns up and you can repair it cheaply. Ive been very lucky with theft so far......... but i can only imagine how you feel

[philbut]

we get far too many posts like this unfortunatly, even in our relatively small group of bikers on here. Really gutted for you dude, and I hope it does turn up without too much damage.

wrt the BBC article on the little sh*t that ran onto the motorway after being chased by the police - that is obviously just evolution in action guys, one less bike thief to add to the gene pool! I don't think thieft warrants death, but as he brought it on himself, I can't say I was particularly saddened, just for the innocent drivers involved really.

[Lozzo]

When I hear about bike thieves dying or getting seriously injured, I laugh and I laugh loud.

[PsychoCannon]

Glad it's not just me, Read this in the paper this morning and a week after having my SV nicked at 3am I almost did a victory shuffle then wondered if that made me a very bad man, if it does at least I'm not alone ^_^

[timwilky]

I had to smile when I read about 3 thieves pushing a nicked moped. When Plod gave chase one climbed onto the M1 and into the path of a car (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/7178552.stm). One less scum

[Ceri JC]

Glad it's not just me, Read this in the paper this morning and a week after having my SV nicked at 3am I almost did a victory shuffle then wondered if that made me a very bad man, if it does at least I'm not alone ^_^

No, it doesn't make you a bad man- rejoicing when thieves die is a social good. I think. :D

[jumjum_0214]

I must say. I really really do hate thieves with a passion:smt097

[ejohnh]

Really sorry to hear about it Pickles.. I'm quite lucky where I live, and I keep the Bike in the garage (our 2 cars stay outside though:o)

I have had stuff nicked when I lived in London - guts you.

This thing about the cops charging you for storage is just ridiculous. It's just something else to stop the private individual reporting crime. Really enhances this spiv goverment's record. See how they jump when it happens to big business though.

Yeah, I know - I'm a cynic,,

[mr slipster]

my brother had his scooter stolen, police did nothing even thought they knew who it was. Too much police time i supose to be worth it. Cost £280 to fix properly. Any way the police slipped up and told us who it is. We know were the little **** lives, so one summers day a brick going though the tossers window. :mad:

[GastonJ]

Kinda reminds me of the time someone stole my GT550, very long time ago, and then tried to sell it to one of my mates... the bike was returned and parked in front of my house the very next morning.

[yorkie_chris]

Why a summers day? Do it when its blowing a gale and snowing.

That or follow it up with something either on fire, harmful to health or really orrible smelling.

Or do the normal thing and 'have a word with him' down a dark alley. With a bat.

[ejohnh]

I know for a fact that the police used to treat this sort of crime as serious in the 60's and 70's.. WTF has happened to this country over the years? Seems like the police exist to protect the corporations. Joe Public doesn't seem to get a look in.

[GastonJ]

Think you might find that their performance goals include more paperwork, more crimes that can be committed, more sophisticated law breakers, more people able to buy the things that lawbreakers want to steal, so more crime and maybe less police officers doing 'real' wor than there were in the 60's and 70's.

Can't be sure, but it's just a guess.

[Ceri JC]

I know for a fact that the police used to treat this sort of crime as serious in the 60's and 70's.. WTF has happened to this country over the years? Seems like the police exist to protect the corporations. Joe Public doesn't seem to get a look in.

I have to admit, until last month, this was my experience of and attitude towards the police.

When my garage was broken in and £400+ worth of tools were stolen, they sent someone out the following morning to check for fingerprints. They were respectful and concerned during the course of the investigation and kept me updated without me having to chase them. They managed to get a known fingerprint and even ensured the culprit was spending Christmas behind bars, which made me feel a lot happier, not to mention feeling more secure about the garage.

[PsychoCannon]

Bah wish they had done that with mine.

When my bike was dropped during an attempted theft they got a known print off it but because I didn't see the guy and couldn't attend an identity parade they dropped the case *sigh*

[ejohnh]

I have to admit, until last month, this was my experience of and attitude towards the police.

When my garage was broken in and £400+ worth of tools were stolen, they sent someone out the following morning to check for fingerprints. They were respectful and concerned during the course of the investigation and kept me updated without me having to chase them. They managed to get a known fingerprint and even ensured the culprit was spending Christmas behind bars, which made me feel a lot happier, not to mention feeling more secure about the garage.

Sounds like you were lucky mate. I've had two radios nicked from cars parked in my drive. Also had my daughter's ex boyfriend lob a stone slab through my front window one christmas eve. When I reported the first radio taken, the police seemed totally unconcerned and told me that I had to take the car to some centre in Port Talbot to get it dusted for prints. I was left in no doubt that it would probably be a waste of everyone's time. The second time I didn't even bother reporting it. When I reported the window incident they asked us if we wanted counselling as victims of crime or something like that. Didn't even go to see the guy who I suggested might have done it.

[ejohnh]

Think you might find that their performance goals include more paperwork, more crimes that can be committed, more sophisticated law breakers, more people able to buy the things that lawbreakers want to steal, so more crime and maybe less police officers doing 'real' wor than there were in the 60's and 70's.

Can't be sure, but it's just a guess.

I agree with all of that and I'm sure you have guessed correctly.