I got my bike back

[ScottCM]

well done, glad you got your own back,

 

PS welcome to the hub

 

PS I like the momsen in the back ground?

[Bobbo_SA]

Not sure how this would hold up - remembering law classes back from varsity days, if you are in possession of stolen goods, you have no claim over them, even if you paid for them without knowing they were stolen. So even if he bought it from someone, without knowing it was stolen, he cannot lay charges, as it was never his ... my 2cents

 

Problem is without being able to prove ownership to the insurance how would proving ownership to a lawyer go down?

[mazambaan]

Great your got your bike back; well done. Maybe the lesson in the pc world is to make sure you can prove ownership. Serial number, photo's whatever.

[Pure Savage]

My mother did the same thing when she saw my brothers bike go past her. She got out clapped the guy with a bunch of keys, then screamed blue murder at the guy. A security guard rocked up and held the guy down for the police. The bike still had mu brothers name on it.

 

Police had a laugh at a guy being citezen arrested my a middle aged woman.

 

Police said as,it was stolen property, whether the guy knew it or not, no charges could be laid against her.

[Guest Omega Man]

Nice.I got my stolen bike back too.

 

Told the insurance co cos I'd been paid out already and they promptly took it away. It felt like it got stolen twice.

[TiBones]

You can offer them a settlement and buy it back from them cheap cheap!

[snowbeast]

Great your got your bike back; well done. Maybe the lesson in the pc world is to make sure you can prove ownership. Serial number, photo's whatever.

 

I learnt the lesson the hard way. I have since sorted security out at home and chain my bike down in a locked and alarmed garage. I never want to go through this again. Like I mentioned before, it has taken months for this to get sorted out to the point it is my bike and can post this.

I now have the frame number and what parts are on it (that is what saved me - my brother and dad have pimped it out for me and it was near impossible for the gentleman thief to do so).

 

As a matter of interest. I have a type of black shoe polish I can't get out of the suspension links. They changed the bike colour to transport it it seems and have removed 90% of it to get it back to white. I'll post a pic this weekend.

[Wannabe]

Cops are utterly useless. One of my Staff Member's Son got shot in the head, point blank this past weekend. His Sister was witness to this, and told the Cops she saw the shooting happen, and would be able to identify the shooter.

Cop turned around and told her unless she has a 'photo of the shooter, they can do nothing.

[SomeBloke]

I learnt the lesson the hard way. I have since sorted security out at home and chain my bike down in a locked and alarmed garage. I never want to go through this again. Like I mentioned before, it has taken months for this to get sorted out to the point it is my bike and can post this.

I now have the frame number and what parts are on it (that is what saved me - my brother and dad have pimped it out for me and it was near impossible for the gentleman thief to do so).

 

As a matter of interest. I have a type of black shoe polish I can't get out of the suspension links. They changed the bike colour to transport it it seems and have removed 90% of it to get it back to white. I'll post a pic this weekend.

 

Wait, they coloured it with shoe polish?

[TCTG]

My concern is why the insurance did not originally pay out? It sounds ridiculous that it was because you never had a picture of yourself on the bike. Let me know which insurance company this is because I would hate to advise clients of mine to insure bicycles with a company that has that as an exclusion?

[TCTG]

Snow_beast do this via pm pls.

[davetapson]

Good on you mate - well effin done..!!

[Gandalf]

This is awesome! the hub needs more good news like this.

[Warren_G]

So awesome to hear a good story like this, congratulations! Everyone should be on the lookout for people that clearly don't look like they "belong" on a certain type of bike...a Rasta on a full-sus GT i-Drive...highly unlikely!

[Heel Drop]

I like this story they stole my bike so right back at ya and "stole" it back - funny

[RABUBI]

rule of thumb, Posession is 9/10 of the law.

 

If the Rasta made a case against you, you would have been in crap