Stolen Bike, Auckland Airport.

[CamJ]

Hi All,
Sometime between 19th January and 24th January, someone has made off with my KTM 950 SM from the Auckland Airport domestic carpark. It was in the covered carpark, in designated m/c parking next to the car charging stations very close to the ticket payment machines.

Since that time I have been dealing with SecureParking (haha) and Skygate Security (haha x 2). I can safely report to the readers here that these organisations are in fact quite useless and despite having cameras up the wazoo, they failed to see the before mentioned bike somehow disappear. My insurance company advised me that they had 2 claims of stolen bikes in the same week from the same location. Smells like a targeted operation.

Here is part of their response I received today: 'Due to poor CCTV coverage on cp Q I couldn’t find any suspicious activities during that time. There were few motorbikes leaving cp but none of them was matching description or registration'.

It took them 5 days before reviewing the footage and initially got the dates wrong. It's my opinion that anyone leaving their bike there overnight does so at some risk as cameras are only as useful as the person reviewing them.

Does anyone here have experience in getting a hold of CCTV footage? I reckon the operators just have no clue in what they're looking for, I'd like to see it myself.

For the record:
KTM 950 SM-R 2008 (black & orange, centre stand, crash bungs, tour screen, hand guards and USB outlet)
Plate # B7EKC
VIN: VBKVS44087M934684.

Cheers.

[caseye]

Hi All,
Sometime between 19th January and 24th January, someone has made off with my KTM 950 SM from the Auckland Airport domestic carpark. It was in the covered carpark, in designated m/c parking next to the car charging stations very close to the ticket payment machines.

Since that time I have been dealing with SecureParking (haha) and Skygate Security (haha x 2). I can safely report to the readers here that these organisations are in fact quite useless and despite having cameras up the wazoo, they failed to see the before mentioned bike somehow disappear. My insurance company advised me that they had 2 claims of stolen bikes in the same week from the same location. Smells like a targeted operation.

Here is part of their response I received today: 'Due to poor CCTV coverage on cp Q I couldn’t find any suspicious activities during that time. There were few motorbikes leaving cp but none of them was matching description or registration'.

It took them 5 days before reviewing the footage and initially got the dates wrong. It's my opinion that anyone leaving their bike there overnight does so at some risk as cameras are only as useful as the person reviewing them.

Does anyone here have experience in getting a hold of CCTV footage? I reckon the operators just have no clue in what they're looking for, I'd like to see it myself.

For the record:
KTM 950 SM-R 2008 (black & orange, centre stand, crash bungs, tour screen, hand guards and USB outlet)
Plate # B7EKC
VIN: VBKVS44087M934684.

Cheers.

Sorry to hear of your loss, security guards??? really, more like informants for thieves who don't give a monkeys for how hard we save to get such machines.
I will keep an ear and an eye open for your KTM.

[jellywrestler]

Hi All,
Sometime between 19th January and 24th January, someone has made off with my KTM 950 SM from the Auckland Airport domestic carpark. It was in the covered carpark, in designated m/c parking next to the car charging stations very close to the ticket payment machines.

Since that time I have been dealing with SecureParking (haha) and Skygate Security (haha x 2). I can safely report to the readers here that these organisations are in fact quite useless and despite having cameras up the wazoo, they failed to see the before mentioned bike somehow disappear. My insurance company advised me that they had 2 claims of stolen bikes in the same week from the same location. Smells like a targeted operation.

Here is part of their response I received today: 'Due to poor CCTV coverage on cp Q I couldn’t find any suspicious activities during that time. There were few motorbikes leaving cp but none of them was matching description or registration'.

It took them 5 days before reviewing the footage and initially got the dates wrong. It's my opinion that anyone leaving their bike there overnight does so at some risk as cameras are only as useful as the person reviewing them.

Does anyone here have experience in getting a hold of CCTV footage? I reckon the operators just have no clue in what they're looking for, I'd like to see it myself.

For the record:
KTM 950 SM-R 2008 (black & orange, centre stand, crash bungs, tour screen, hand guards and USB outlet)
Plate # B7EKC
VIN: VBKVS44087M934684.

Cheers. what sort of lock were you using? just want to avoid one that's easily cut off.

[FJRider]

Sorry to hear of your loss, security guards??? really, more like informants for thieves who don't give a monkeys for how hard we save to get such machines.


More like car park attendants ... only ONE person responsible for the security of their motorcycle ... and that's the rider.

One battery grinder to cut chains or exterior locks ... four (or less) strong guys ... a van/covered trailer and job done.

[eldog]

Had previous experience with these guys and their camera(s) ... they don't want to get involved.:brick:

[Akzle]

you really think the guy paid 15$/hr to "secure" shit, is going to?

or you think he's going to take a back hander, few hundy if he txts someone the model numbers of the bikes that come in?

welcome to auckland, and capitalism.

[skippa1]

I fucken hate thieves

[Akzle]

I fucken hate thieves

me an' all. but whatcha gon' do, when the system encourages it...

[GazzaH]

Tracker on the bike?

Let the insurance co prod the police into doing their jobs?

Get a lift to the airport?

Make the bike unattractive to the thieving scumbags?

Petition the airport to improve security for bikers e.g. ground anchors and better CCTVs?

...

[Honest Andy]

yeah that was "Navy Boy" on here, his Guzzi pinched from airport on the 22nd, probably parked next to yours...

Sorry to hear it wasn't an isolated case

Almost worth buying a shit scooter to do the errands, and keep the proper flash bike locked up till the weekend :no::angry:

[Kickaha]

Tracker on the bike?...

If that location is being targeted then a Bait bike with a tracker on it

[Honest Andy]

If that location is being targeted then a Bait bike with a tracker on it

How about bait it with a souped up electric fence unit...?

[CamJ]

I hate thieves as well. Managed to avoid them since the 90's when some bastard pinched the RZ from the garage. I'm a regular user of that park and never had reason to think that it would be less safer than leaving it at home. It's a monitored carpark, 200m from a police station, parked 20m in front of a camera. To get a van in and out, you have to go through 2 barriers where your details are recorded (well the vehicle plate at least). Talking with non-biker mates and have heard tales of 2 cars stolen from the airport. A Subaru and a camper.

Makes me think that this is was a planned raid and the goons are going to get clean away because left hand not talking to right hand and silo mentality of the the systems in place. Can anyone here get me in touch with Navy Boy please? I don't have enough posts to email him yet. I reckon his and my bike were taken at exactly the same time, it's just we returned at different times.

Also, bear in mind that Auckland Airport received $56.3m in revenues in 2017 for car parking. It's their 5th biggest earner therefore there is no reason why minimum wage drongos are in control at the parking. But something fishy is definitely going on there. I will be going over to the Airport police, not to prod them but see if they can help me get my hands on CCTV footage. I'm happy to slog through it but it's a fog of confusion to get answers from the mysterious and elusive 'security' people at the airport. Easier to get in touch with Batman than a human at Skygate.

Alas no tracker, but as irony would have it, I had been checking them out recently.

[Kickaha]

How about bait it with a souped up electric fence unit...?

You want to be able to track it back their base

[skippa1]

me an' all. but whatcha gon' do, when the system encourages it...
Just gotta do what yah do best....so i will just hate on em......haters gotta hate

[Navy Boy]

yeah that was "Navy Boy" on here, his Guzzi pinched from airport on the 22nd, probably parked next to yours...

Sorry to hear it wasn't an isolated case

Almost worth buying a shit scooter to do the errands, and keep the proper flash bike locked up till the weekend :no::angry:

Yep - I feel your pain my friend.

Re the scooter - That's exactly what I've done. The insurance company has been on the phone telling me what they think it's worth... Enough to make you cry really...:crybaby:

I had precisely the same response about the CCTV. It almost makes you think that it's an inside job...

[Madness]

I fucken hate thieves

I got to smack one in the face this week. My garage door is still fucked and I've had to shift my stuff into a lockup but so far I reckon it's 1-0 to me. Cunts.

[eldog]

I got to smack one in the face this week. My garage door is still fucked and I've had to shift my stuff into a lockup but so far I reckon it's 1-0 to me. Cunts.

:clap: pity it wasn't a permanent solution.

I suppose now you will be charged with assault and battery. System sucks.

[FlangMasterJ]

It almost makes you think that it's an inside job...

Sounds like it to me.

[Madness]

I suppose now you will be charged with assault and battery. System sucks.

Not if the local constabulary have any say in it. Mind you, I haven't made it easy for them by assaulting the guy in front of two sworn uniformed officers :facepalm:

I'm actually feeling reasonably happy to plead guilty to common assault should I get charged - at this point in time at least. It was a pretty ordinary punch and I reckon any half-reasonable Judge would afford me a discharge without conviction under the circumstances, assuming that's legally possible.

[eldog]

Not if the local constabulary have any say in it. Mind you, I haven't made it easy for them by assaulting the guy in front of two sworn uniformed officers :facepalm:

I'm actually feeling reasonably happy to plead guilty to common assault should I get charged - at this point in time at least. It was a pretty ordinary punch and I reckon any half-reasonable Judge would afford me a discharge without conviction under the circumstances, assuming that's legally possible.

The Law is an arse. Just you wait and see who the victim is in due course.:no:

[jasonu]

any half-reasonable Judge

There's your biggest problem.

[CamJ]

Update to the airport theft saga: Monday the 22nd of Jan at 0319hrs Skygate have observed a Toyota van enter the carpark with a trailer, at 0328hrs the van drives out of the carpark with two motorcycles on the trailer, covered with a tarpaulin.

Cops called me the other day and said they have a suspect but no evidence. Case closed.

Lesson for the day: a security system is only as good as the operator: therefore take the bus.

:shit:

[Conquiztador]

Cops called me the other day and said they have a suspect but no evidence. Case closed.


:shit:

That is just BS and lack of willingness to find the evidence. There is the van rego, the van will have a owner, the owner will have a place he lives, he will have mates he hangs out with, they will have a place they frequent where bikes etc. can be stored. But I suppose this is low priority when there are speeding tickets to write out!

[jasonu]

That is just BS and lack of willingness to find the evidence. There is the van rego, the van will have a owner, the owner will have a place he lives, he will have mates he hangs out with, they will have a place they frequent where bikes etc. can be stored. But I suppose this is low priority when there are speeding tickets to write out!

Lazy law enforcement.

[caspernz]

That is just BS and lack of willingness to find the evidence. There is the van rego, the van will have a owner, the owner will have a place he lives, he will have mates he hangs out with, they will have a place they frequent where bikes etc. can be stored. But I suppose this is low priority when there are speeding tickets to write out!

All of which is rendered null and void by a novel invention: a stolen license plate :facepalm:

[Conquiztador]

All of which is rendered null and void by a novel invention: a stolen license plate :facepalm:

Yep. Apart from, as it seems, the police has found someone who they suspect...

[Navy Boy]

Update to the airport theft saga: Monday the 22nd of Jan at 0319hrs Skygate have observed a Toyota van enter the carpark with a trailer, at 0328hrs the van drives out of the carpark with two motorcycles on the trailer, covered with a tarpaulin.

Cops called me the other day and said they have a suspect but no evidence. Case closed.

Lesson for the day: a security system is only as good as the operator: therefore take the bus.

:shit:

Have sent you a PM.

[R650R]

If that location is being targeted then a Bait bike with a tracker on it

My DR has a sat tracker on it, reminds me I must top up the account.... $160 plus sim card plus $20 credit a year.....

Anyhow I'll let the DR take one for the team if everyone chips in for a decent hotel with a spa and some quality high class hookers for the night...

https://www.trademe.co.nz/motors/car-parts-accessories/alarms-security/other/auction-1554736383.htm?rsqid=22216bdf2cb04fceb6d83f90a4ccc 4b2

[R650R]

Update to the airport theft saga: Monday the 22nd of Jan at 0319hrs Skygate have observed a Toyota van enter the carpark with a trailer, at 0328hrs the van drives out of the carpark with two motorcycles on the trailer, covered with a tarpaulin.

Cops called me the other day and said they have a suspect but no evidence. Case closed.

Lesson for the day: a security system is only as good as the operator: therefore take the bus.

:shit:

We have over 40 cameras at my work... even high quality stuff is really only good for catching someone you already know/recognise.... if our govt cared they would mandate plate recognition cameras at major places like this with high turnover, hooked up to INCIS/whatever so even stolen plate gets picked up. Also they could have a system where if you know your not back till date X then your vehicle doesn't leave till date x. And absolutely no vehicles with trailers...

[actungbaby]

Have sent you a PM.

Karma get the barstard . If stealing u imagine rest of his life lived in same sad manner . No goals disapline .

Whats wrong with cops . No evidence to bloody lazy more like or just tuunel vision . Alot of them are not to bright .
Unm empy truck drives in bikes on the back licence plate bingo everdence . My dads scooter stolen . Guy crashs by the hospital . Police talk to the guy . Oh he said he didint steal it , found it . Was a friend . ( i forget was 20 years ago .) outcome no one was charged bike written off .


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[actungbaby]

Out the 5 6 criminal matters my family have reported cant think of one thats even been takin to court . Oh yes one . Then got slap with wet bus ticket . Was told to face music to my father . When it affected me more . Forget what the call . It u go to a place and netural dude mediates a talk :-) . Guy chickened out both times or . Chouldint be bothered . Never told if he had penelity . Because this . Most prob . Knew be no come backs anyways . Actaully was a so called friend of a nephew . Smashed into my mothers house night before her funneral .went trough he things . Left his blood on window . Was pissed said needed take a leak (year right ) this was bel


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[geoffm]

Update to the airport theft saga: Monday the 22nd of Jan at 0319hrs Skygate have observed a Toyota van enter the carpark with a trailer, at 0328hrs the van drives out of the carpark with two motorcycles on the trailer, covered with a tarpaulin.

Cops called me the other day and said they have a suspect but no evidence. Case closed.

Lesson for the day: a security system is only as good as the operator: therefore take the bus.

:shit:

Cops dont even turn up to investigate burglaries, even if you can tell them the address of the person and have a tracker showing it is there. In some cases, even the name of the person who did it - doesn't come much easier than that. Don't come whinging to me if the police need help and the public laugh at them and give them the same level of service as they provide.

[Conquiztador]

Cops dont even turn up to investigate burglaries, even if you can tell them the address of the person and have a tracker showing it is there. In some cases, even the name of the person who did it - doesn't come much easier than that. Don't come whinging to me if the police need help and the public laugh at them and give them the same level of service as they provide.

Yes but... the road toll is coming down! Ooopppss.. no it's not. I got confused. Something was coming down... but can't remember right now.

[Akzle]

Yes but... the road toll is coming down! Ooopppss.. no it's not. I got confused. Something was coming down... but can't remember right now.

police staff numbers?

[Conquiztador]

police staff numbers?

Just remembered! Peoples expectation to have theft and burglaries solved! That's what is coming down.

[Old Steve]

So do I have any faith in the courts? The taxi driver who knocked me off my bike got convicted of Dangerous driving causing injury and Leaving the scene of an accident. He retained his license because he was the sole earner in the family.

If he was so worried about his income he should have been more careful about his driving and he should have come over to me to check if I was alright (I had a dislocated shoulder, 3 torn rotator cuff tendons and an ambulance came and parked up on the grass verge to take me to hospital).

So I reckon we set up a desirable model motorbike with a tracker and about 1 kg of semtex under the seat, park it at the airport, watch the tracker and when it moves off from the airport wait until it becomes stationary for some time then click the switch which says "Boom!"

That way we'd be doing the dozy magistrates a favour, they wouldn't even have to get out of bed in the morning. And filthy thieves would probably hesitate before pinching another bike.

JK

[Akzle]

Just remembered! Peoples expectation to have theft and burglaries solved! That's what is coming down.

i would have thought once it got to "fuckall" (passed that a few years back) then any further reduction would be statistically irrelevant...

[awayatc]

So I reckon we set up a desirable model motorbike with a tracker and about 1 kg of semtex under the seat, park it at the airport, watch the tracker and when it moves off from the airport wait until it becomes stationary for some time then click the switch which says "Boom!"

JK

You wouldn't need that much...

A small strategically placed charge under the seat would cause some life altering and permanent changes ......

[Navy Boy]

So - I received an e-mail last week from a Police Sgt to say that my Guzzi has been recovered from an address in Manukau and asking me to get hold of the insurance company so that they can collect the bike from their pound.

I'd already received my payout a week or so before this so the bike's now the property of the insurance company.

Whilst it's good to see that the police managed to find it I'm also quite glad that I didn't have to go through the hassle of getting the bike back, getting it fixed and so on. I've no particular axe to grind with the police so this seems to be a rare positive for them.

May the lowlife who did pinch it take a long walk off a short pier. As we say here at work:

Sometimes certain people just need a High Five...

In the head...

With a chair!

Have a good day all! ;)