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Old School BMX 1980 - 1988 => Old School Freestyle (frame stands and kickturns galore!) => Topic started by: tricknuts on July 05, 2008, 07:58 AM
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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.
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hmmmmm dont take it but maybe put a sticker with some info on it or a contact of sorts
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looks like someones had the brake blocks off already
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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...
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....alternatively, just take a bit home at a time :LolLolLolLol:
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looks nice as well
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I Dunno What I'd Do! It Does Look In Very Good Nick :daumenhoch: :daumenhoch:
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check for CCTV if none about just nick it,fcuk 'em.
priv
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:) 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.......
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is it on the grounds of the supermarket? i would go in and ask them, see what they say.
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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
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^^ 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.....
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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.....
:'(
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^^ 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 :daumenhoch:
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Thats a bit tight Jackel.
Give the lad a walking frame!!!! :daumenhoch:
He'd already get crutches on the NHS!!
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Thats a bit tight Jackel.
Give the lad a walking frame!!!! :daumenhoch:
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 :2funny: :2funny:
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loved the replies. :LolLolLolLol:
I think I'll take it.... >:D
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loved the replies. :LolLolLolLol:
I think I'll take it.... >:D
not think mate
have to its your right lol
i,m kidding dont point the police this way ;D
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loved the replies. :LolLolLolLol:
I think I'll take it.... >:D
not think mate
have to its your right lol
i,m kidding dont point the police this way ;D
i'll tell the cops the jackel made me do it..... ;)
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have you got your new bike yet ;)
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loved the replies. :LolLolLolLol:
I think I'll take it.... >:D
not think mate
have to its your right lol
i,m kidding dont point the police this way ;D
i'll tell the cops the jackel made me do it..... ;)
lol funnily enough that wouldnt be the first time thats happened ;D ;D
and yep come on bikage report please :)
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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 :LolLolLolLol:
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just take the fooker
feel guilty when its sat on the bench being resto'd...
then put it back :4_17_5:
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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 ;)
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is it still there then?
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right its a week on if its gone you missed your chance if your not going to get it give us an addy so we can go and LOOK at it ;D
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Looks nice, is it still there? Nab it, worst case is being stuck in a jail with a big guy behind you saying his the daddy ;D
No really, looks like its a gonna, ask another member of staff, if they don't know, just cut the bolts and go and restore the beauty ;)
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the guy may be on holiday or whatever leave it bro , nothing worse than a thief, and come on would you like being marched off by plodd for a piece of junk like that.. leave well alone the owner locked it up after all .
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Actually i do have an update....
i went back there on Wed night. That's almost 3 weeks later... and guess what. It was still there. I took some tools for the job this time.. I was doing some shopping close by, so i thought I'd wait until the store closed at 10pm. I waited across the road in the car for the store to close. The lights went out around 10.30, but there was still staff inside. Worse was that there was still a few cars next to the bike... so I waited... and waited.
Talk about crap criminal. I sweating like a rapist. The car windows were steaming up, so i went for a walk to check it out. There was still a few people milling about in the carpark so i went back to the car and waited some more.
half an hour later I went for another walk, and the same people were still there in the carpark. right next to the bike. By this stage it was midnight, and they saw me making small walks backwards and forwards and getting back in my car. -talk about looking suspicious
so I gave up.. and went home empty handed... :-[ for now...
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actually I think i'd feel better if someone else took it...
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for fooks sake :P look.. don't ask anyone who may then claim to own it cos they look like a bmxer etc, just rock on into the store and ask for the manager.
he's the person who would call the cops for trying to nick his son's crappy mongoose bmx thats locked to the railings and has lost the key while working to many late shifts at his dad's request.
if the manager says its ok, then its the best feeling to have got somthing good legally free, if he knows the owner and you ended up taking it by way of theft i couldn't ride it without feeling guilty.
i have suffered 3 bmx thefts when i was growing up and its not a nice feeling, 2 firebirds were taken from my grans back garden, if some dick took them because they thought they were abandoned they were seriously wrong and if i ever found out who took them i would jump up and down on them with all my 6ft 4in 17 stone frame.
just my thoughts :angel:
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I have a perfect idea for you....
wear a flourescent vest as if you are from the council take a good pair of chain cutters then wheel it round the corner to the location of your non-council looking vehicle (maybe take 3 hours to do it so people believe you work for the council).
...and no I havent done this before
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truth be known i would get the bike by whatever means possible if its been left there it has probably been dumped now.
take it to the police station as lost property.then its your legally after i think 6 weeks :daumenhoch:
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just tell the manager of the supermarket its been there x amount of weeks first and you,ll move it :daumenhoch:
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if that was in bristol it would be gone by now and if not it would be just a bare frame stripped of all its parts id leave it a couple more weeks and if its still there then take it if its somebodys and they still wanted it they would have come back and taken it by then and if they havent they dont want it who in there rite mind would leave there bike for that long and with just a crappy lock on it :daumenhoch:
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look, just tell us where it is. it'll be gone within the hour.
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thats where it is ? i was pissed and couldnt remember where exactly i had left it if u tell me the area i know exactly that its mine and i can fetch it your right i did get run over and suffered from amnesia cant even remember where the key for the lock is. so ill have to cut it off.
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if that was in bristol it would be gone by now and if not it would be just a bare frame stripped of all its parts id leave it a couple more weeks and if its still there then take it if its somebodys and they still wanted it they would have come back and taken it by then and if they havent they dont want it who in there rite mind would leave there bike for that long and with just a crappy lock on it :daumenhoch:
true!, you from bristol?
zak
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I have the exact same problem, I'm after a 26" rear wheel with disc hub and bu**er me if there isn't one locked to the bike stands at my local shopping centre, no bike, the theiving scum have already had that. It's been there a week too, sooo tempted.
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look, just tell us where it is. it'll be gone within the hour.
doubt it its in california
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yes im from bristol zak and i would say bike theift here is prety high and the scum only sell them on for under fifty quid or a couple bags of gear :daumenhoch:
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check for CCTV if none about just nick it,fcuk 'em.
priv
Top class :LolLolLolLol:
I've had a few beers though ;D
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HAS NO ONE NICKED THIS YET? FOR F#CK SAKE WHAT ARE YA PLAYING AT!!!
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I got really drunk one night and left my chrome Mongoose Decade with flat tyre chained to a railing somewhere, but don't remember where, it might have been in a supermarket i think, has anyone seen it please
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i did the same too
must be loads chained to railings :LolLolLolLol:
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Just a quick note on this........If you don't take it eventually the police will. I work in waste and got a call the other day off the local police saying they needed a vehicle to help the removal of a load of bikes from the local train station that had not been claimed (don't worry i made sure i went first to see what i could grab) but there was nothing.
Get it picked up and if anybody asks just tell them it's yours and you lost the key when drunk
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Ok, so at the wekeend spoke to one of my mates. he reckoned i should ask the store first.
Tonight, i did just that. On the way there, right in front of me the cops pulled into the store and stopped right at the front door.
Anyway i went in and asked a girl at the checkouts for the manager.
"well i'm the front of store manager.. can i help"?
i ws forced into telling her the story, about how the bike has been there for a month and how i'd like to take it and build it up for my son (i don't even have a son)
She said "oh is that the small silvery biike? i think that belongs to one of the staff, so sorry, you can't take it."
i was forceed into accepting her answer when she made a fatal mistake.
she said" yeah he works long hours, but cycles in early in the morning- thats why it looks like its always there"
"ah ha said I. That's impossible. The rear wheel is hanging off ,. Its uncycleable I said. it must be another bike you're thinking of"...
"Hold on, i'll get the general manager.".. she said
she fooks off back to her checkouts and the general manager came over.
i told him the story, and he said "yeah I've noticed thats been there for over a month. Just take it, and tell them I said it was OK."
Now brimming with confidence I went outside and cut the lockoff with a pair of wirecutters right in full view of the cops.
3 mins later it was in the back of my car.. :daumenhoch:
sorry to keep everyone in suspense... :LolLolLolLol:
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about time too ;D
still this way you aint gonna worry about the what if's :daumenhoch:
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Top one!!
It pays to have the cheek to ask, and no guilty conscience :daumenhoch:
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its proberbly rusty as f#ck now :LolLolLolLol:
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hasd to read that twice - thought you put you were in the back of their car!!!
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can you imagine how many drunk chavs have slashed up the side of that!! uurgh
hope you washed ya hands :LolLolLolLol:
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about time !! Good story mate, big smiles. MK09 candidate..????
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Tricknuts !! Have you seen the news today !?!?!
From the BBC Website:
The Conservative leader David Cameron has had his bike stolen. He says it was taken whilst he was in a supermarket in West London, and has appealed for his 'priceless friend' to be returned.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7523602.stm
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Ross, that was a good call - taken legally and without deception :daumenhoch:
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Tricknuts !! Have you seen the news today !?!?!
From the BBC Website:
The Conservative leader David Cameron has had his bike stolen. He says it was taken whilst he was in a supermarket in West London, and has appealed for his 'priceless friend' to be returned.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7523602.stm
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:LolLolLolLol: :LolLolLolLol: :LolLolLolLol:
;D
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Tricknuts !! Have you seen the news today !?!?!
From the BBC Website:
The Conservative leader David Cameron has had his bike stolen. He says it was taken whilst he was in a supermarket in West London, and has appealed for his 'priceless friend' to be returned.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7523602.stm
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haha classic. fook him... his fault for riding a stupid kids bike anyway :LolLolLolLol:
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i had a bike nicked once. i saw it outside tesco about a year later with a hugh chain wrapping it to a rack but no actual lock. nicked it back there and then. ;D ;D
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After reading this thread can i ask where was this bike (rough location) in the end?
As others have said, in many places this would have gone ages ago.
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it was in silicon valley in North california not the UK. .. not too much bike crime around here I guess.
which is just as well. ive left my new school bike and laptop in the car loads of times unlocked and no-one bats an eyelid.
still i'm suprised it sat there for over a month and no-one nicked it. ..............until a scottish bloke came along hee hee ;)
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top man ross and legally aquired :)