Bike Hijacking this afternoon - Boschkop - Rosemary Hill road

[kingalton]

The bike park as in the Boschkop MTB trail? (never been there before)

Yeah thats it..

[Spinnekop]

On my door step. Road that exact road on Monday. Scary stuff!

 

Glad he is OK and thank you for the warning!

[Niner]

Glad he is ok.

He should have let them take his phone.They can be traced as long as they keep the phone on.

Do you want to tell me that anyone would do this? Who is going to trace the phone? By the time he MTN/CellC/Vodacom involved that phone has another sim card and I am yet to meet anyone who has got their phone back.

 

You have to get a court order before any carrier will even think off tracing it, and it is not accurate.....honesly it ONLY happens in the movies.

[Bianchi]

Do you want to tell me that anyone would do this? Who is going to trace the phone? By the time he MTN/CellC/Vodacom involved that phone has another sim card and I am yet to meet anyone who has got their phone back.

 

You have to get a court order before any carrier will even think off tracing it, and it is not accurate.....honesly it ONLY happens in the movies.

 

We traced a laptop with a datasim the other day, we had someone who knew someone who got someone to get us the tracking.... even with the coords (which we had updated a few times) we couldn't find the thing. The only accurate way of finding a phone is via its gps, as with the iPhone/Android phones, and that's only if the "findmydroid",etc software is functional under whatever circumstances.

[gummibear]

Do you want to tell me that anyone would do this? Who is going to trace the phone? By the time he MTN/CellC/Vodacom involved that phone has another sim card and I am yet to meet anyone who has got their phone back.

 

You have to get a court order before any carrier will even think off tracing it, and it is not accurate.....honesly it ONLY happens in the movies.

 

No it doesn't

Criminals are caught daily with the use of cell phones.Missing people are found daily with the use of cell phones.It can be done if the police are interested in finding the criminals.

It's pretty accurate......just ask the guys serving 25 years at St Albuns Prison for robbery.

[arendoog]

They obviously know what bike to jack .Watching from somewhere.

[Pants Boy]

That's it, packing the .45 now on my rides. Rode that road on Monday morning at dark o'clock ....

[Cycling Addict]

Freeking @#$%&& - East was one of the last safe places to ride mtb

[G-Unit]

Thanks for the heads up. I've also been riding out there for years, without ever an incident. The time they are a changing, it seems. And not for the better... :-(

[Anine]

That's it, packing the .45 now on my rides. Rode that road on Monday morning at dark o'clock ....

 

I'm cycling with you!

[_Daemon_]

Sounds organised, which means there must be quite a demand for bikes/parts. So who is creating the demand??

[kingalton]

That's it, packing the .45 now on my rides. Rode that road on Monday morning at dark o'clock ....

the problem with that is; if they realise the guys are riding with guns, they will shoot before you get off your bike, they wont take the chance of getting shot..

It wont stop the guys, it will make them more eager, they can get bikes, cell phones, guns etc from cyclists...

[Scalpel]

Where exactly is the Boschkop bike park?

[Bianchi]

Where exactly is the Boschkop bike park?

 

Grabbed from Google Maps quickly.

-25.772021, 28.416833

[ThePubSA]

WTF now they in a "TEAM" vito van picking up bikes.... Tour D,africa..

Glad all ok

[Beer4Recovery]

SHITE! I did that loop the other day for the first time - lekker for training, but I was also alone, there were however a lot of other cyclists on the road as well - so I felt kinda safe. I wanted to do that loop again this coming weekend but I am not willing to take the risk.

 

F****ng crime in this country is MAD! One of these days you won't be able to ride anywhere!!

 

Now there goes another training route... :cursing:

Edited September 26, 2012 by FuelEX