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    How to recover a stolen bike

    Well, a push bike anyway.

    When Dory Van Fleet stepped out of the REI store, the black mountain bike he had locked up on the street was gone.

    ...

    While checking Craigslist six days after the theft, he found 10 listings for an REI Novara Arriba bike, including a posting three hours old asking $200. It matched his bike's description. "It was just too suspicious," Van Fleet said.
    http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/htm...5_bike03m.html

    Thief gets owned. By the internet. Ha ha.

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    I feel all warm and tingly inside!

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    One up for the little people! That's very cool

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    Meh, I'd have just stabbed him and taken my bike back.

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    My mum's bike got stolen in Dunedin and she saw it one day, a few houses down the road. She told the police because she's an nice polite woman, no way she's going to go barging in and demand her bike back from the theives.
    The police said "sorry we'll get around to it in a few weeks/months".

    So instead she went around and just took it back. Brave for my mum!
    Determined to kill my bike before it kills me

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    Quote Originally Posted by Steam View Post
    My mum's bike got stolen in Dunedin and she saw it one day, a few houses down the road. She told the police because she's an nice polite woman, no way she's going to go barging in and demand her bike back from the theives.
    The police said "sorry we'll get around to it in a few weeks/months".

    So instead she went around and just took it back. Brave for my mum!
    She should have told the cops they were speeding on it. They'd have been there in 5 minutes.

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    Yeah for people power, it works.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Steam View Post
    My mum's bike got stolen in Dunedin and she saw it one day, a few houses down the road. She told the police because she's an nice polite woman, no way she's going to go barging in and demand her bike back from the theives.
    The police said "sorry we'll get around to it in a few weeks/months".

    So instead she went around and just took it back. Brave for my mum!
    Yeah - try this one
    "I'm about to blow the head off the guy that stole my bike"
    $2,000 cash if you find a buyer for my house, kumeuhouseforsale@straightshooters.co.nz for details

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    Yeah it would NEVER happen in NZ. Tooo many speeders.
    Then I could get a Kb Tshirt, move to Timaru and become a full time crossdressing faggot

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    Great story, but some people really need lives if they go to that much effort having secret signals and crap
    To every man upon this earth
    Death cometh sooner or late
    And how can a man die better
    Than facing fearful odds
    For the ashes of his fathers
    And the temples of his Gods

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    Quote Originally Posted by Sniper View Post
    Great story, but some people really need lives if they go to that much effort having secret signals and crap
    Thin ice to tread on KB

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    I had my bike stolen in Wairoa. I was little they rode it around and trashed it. I didn't forget. When I was older and bigger I got my justice. I feel good about that. I got a long memory...
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    Quote Originally Posted by Colapop View Post
    I had my bike stolen in Wairoa. I was little they rode it around and trashed it. I didn't forget. When I was older and bigger I got my justice. I feel good about that. I got a long memory...
    Heh, keep your friends close and your enemies closer.

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