Thieving scum

If you see a Red van with a rollershutter rear door and a Blue SV in the back, do me a favour & get the registration, or just chop the drivers hands off for me (sorry, all reason has gone)!

Some scum nicked my bike from outside my house in Isleworth, Middlesex last night, the description of the van is from a previous attempt which I only found out about from a neighbour this morning, she disturbed them that time. Apparently it was nicked 10 minutes before I got home.
Sooooo ****ed off.
Any advice on how things go from here & what I'm likely to face?
I've already spoken to the police, insurance & datatag. The best bit of which was being informed that, in the unlikely event that the police find it, I will have to pay them £150 not to leave it there! If I don't, they just tell me where it is & leave?!?!
I appreciate that they have costs to cover but isn't that handled by taxes. Tax the criminals by all means but the victims?!?!

Thoroughly ****ed off.

Sorry to hear that. If I caught someone nicking my bike it wouldn't just be their hands I'd cut off..... and I think that is perfectly reasonable!

Damn it. How much security did they have to bypass to nick the bike?

A guy at work had his bike nicked. I overheard him going mental because the bike had been recovered and was with some garage. They said it was £150 if he wanted the bike back so naturally he wanted to take a look and see what sort of state it was in before paying out as it might have been cheaper to leave it (I think it was an old bike and badly trashed). Believe it or not but they wouldn't let him see the bike unless he paid the £150 up front and apparently they are within their rights to do that.

That's so poo... hope you get it sorted (and had theft cover? even if it'll never pay out for what the bike meant to you...). Guy I work with had his CB500 stolen. Police called to say they'd found it, then by the time they got someone there to pick it up/check it the thief had ridden off... never to be seen again...

Another reason to dislike van drivers, apart from their lack of driving skills

thiefing ba@tards! sorry to hear this news matey i hate it when someones pride and joy gets stolen! keep ya chin up ar kid!

Sorry to hear this. Hope you get it back.

sounds like a professional job, unless they get caught in the next month, its unlikely you'll see the bike again.

Bar sterwards

Cheers all, not a lot to say really is there, I just had to shout somewhere and my colleagues are getting sick of my language today.
I just bloody hope I can still afford to run a bike when the dust settles.

alansv is prob right these things are stolen for part's aint they.

soory to hear of ur loss

god knows how these people sleep at night.

my mother was conned out of £300 the other day. shes disabled!

how do these poeple live with themselves? how does their head work? how can they smile at someone elses misery?

i agree, cut off more than their hands.