Torching bikes

**YellowDog** · 28th November 2009, 15:26

Carver, has someone torched your bike?

OR are you considering doing it to someone elses bike and by this thread, attempting a realistic risk management assessment?

**carver** · 28th November 2009, 15:30

Originally Posted by Oakie

Why would the arsonist have commited this hypothetical crime? Did the owner of this hypothetical bike do something to upset this hypothetical arsonist in the first place?

no........

**EnzoYug** · 28th November 2009, 15:35

Originally Posted by carver

If someone torched your bike, what would you do about it?
just ..ahem...hypothetically

You get what you pay for.
Read into that what you will.

or - take out a PR war against them. Name and shame.
Get a photo of them and draw up a poster with something along the lines of:

"Public Service Announcement - on X day of X month, X person commited the crime of arson. He/she burned and destroyed X motorcycle for reason X. X Person justified their action as a reaction to X Y & Z events.

This author of this poster is also the owner of the destoryed motorcylce and has placed a number of these posters all over 'X city / X town' so that the residents can know and beware the nature and manners of X person and treat them in a manner fitting an arsonist and criminal"

And put up a few hundred of them where he lives. Legal and more deadly than violence, unless he's a patched mob member in which case - good fucking luck.

I had a friend who got knocked off his bike, with only 3rd party insurance. They guy who hit him wouldn't pay. The fastest method to get his money was to find the guy on facebook (created a fake account of a hot woman) and add him, write down the names of all his friends and then look them up in the phone book.

He then sent a physical letter explaining the actions and attitude of the car driver to all the drivers friends, relatives, coworkers, etc... just so they could know what kind of a person he really was.

The guy paid out less than a week after the letters started arriving.

**EnzoYug** · 28th November 2009, 15:37

Originally Posted by YellowDog

Carver, has someone torched your bike?

OR are you considering doing it to someone elses bike and by this thread, attempting a realistic risk management assessment?

If he torches someones bike he better hope they're too smart to do something dumb.

Seeing someone in jail doesn't give you back the use of your legs.

**carver** · 28th November 2009, 15:48

Originally Posted by YellowDog

Carver, has someone torched your bike?

OR are you considering doing it to someone elses bike and by this thread, attempting a realistic risk management assessment?

it used to be mine

Originally Posted by EnzoYug

If he torches someones bike he better hope they're too smart to do something dumb.

Seeing someone in jail doesn't give you back the use of your legs.

im not stupid or that way inclined

**coffeejunkie** · 28th November 2009, 16:12

Yes BUT is this really Hypothetical? I think not.....

**carver** · 28th November 2009, 16:22

Originally Posted by coffeejunkie

Yes BUT is this really Hypothetical? I think not.....

well, i do ask, as bikes, how do you view this?

**coffeejunkie** · 28th November 2009, 16:26

Well.....i'd be out for blood if it was a full sized bike....But since it's a pocketbike your talking about then hay it's alittle on the funny side, Do it go bang? Or did it just smoke like a bitch?

**carver** · 28th November 2009, 16:28

Originally Posted by coffeejunkie

Well.....i'd be out for blood if it was a full sized bike....But since it's a pocketbike your talking about then hay it's alittle on the funny side, Do it go bang? Or did it just smoke like a bitch?

we put it out, so burning someone elses pocketbike is ok?
when should it become a issue?

**coffeejunkie** · 28th November 2009, 16:31

It's a 50/50 situation really....

If the owner is fine with it then go for it as long as ya don't stand too close...I don't think you would look good with no eyebrows....

It becomes a problem when the fire engine turns up...

**pc220** · 28th November 2009, 16:34

Well if its just a pocket bike, shag his mrs just for fun then kick back with a beer.Sorted.

**carver** · 28th November 2009, 16:35

Originally Posted by coffeejunkie

It's a 50/50 situation really....

If the owner is fine with it then go for it as long as ya don't stand too close...I don't think you would look good with no eyebrows....

It becomes a problem when the fire engine turns up...

so if it was a gift for the owner, and that same night, someone decided to burn it, for no real reason, is it still a 50/50 situation?