Have You Seen This Car?? Assholes trying to steal Bikes

[lealand]

Hey do what I did years ago for some fun with a mates car ;-) I wire a detonator to the donor bike they will F..king shit them selves ;-)

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[marty]

now now play nice LOL, settle this shit on the blacktop:P

would you please get off your lazy arse and go and get a job.

tosser.

[bomma]

Good work bomma (isn't that an original line in this thread)

I always walk up/down symonds st before/after classes, looking at the bikes and watching out for dodgy behaviour.

I have no real evidence but...
On either monday or tuesday i saw a White Toyota Hiace (not the brand new shape), with 5% tinted windows, driving up and down symonds st looking at the bikes.
The occupants seem to fit your description of white guys of medium build etc.

So i guess this could be the vehicle for van loading/transporting.
So yeah. a white hiace with the tints so you cant see the bike in the back.

Again no real proof they were dodgy, but just what i noticed!

its good that we are able to raise awareness for bike security....if we had every other biker just glance at the bike parks (keeping an eye on the more expensive bikes), then we'd surely have very few bike thefts round uni, which benefits all

keep up the good work mate, and hopefully this will deter these assholes from coming back and trying any more shit....im gonna start carrying my sledge hammer round with me and practicing swings against cars parked illegally on alfred st

[Grub]

I have no real evidence but...
On either monday or tuesday i saw a White Toyota Hiace (not the brand new shape), with 5% tinted windows, driving up and down symonds st looking at the bikes.
The occupants seem to fit your description of white guys of medium build etc.!

Please tell us that you called the police comms and gave them the reg at least. It's called a "1C - persons acting suspiciously". They DO take note. Plus given all the thefts lately ... they'd be onto it pretty damned quickly I'd imagine. Hell, if it is those guys, from past evidence, the van would be stolen.

I'm sorry but if you observed all this and did nothing, there's no kudos in that at all ... more, it makes you part of the problem

[motorbyclist]

Please tell us that you called the police comms and gave them the reg at least. It's called a "1C - persons acting suspiciously". They DO take note. Plus given all the thefts lately ... they'd be onto it pretty damned quickly I'd imagine. Hell, if it is those guys, from past evidence, the van would be stolen.

I'm sorry but if you observed all this and did nothing, there's no kudos in that at all ... more, it makes you part of the problem

beleive it or not, the cops don't seem to care about students getting their bikes nicked, even though the thiefs are in stolen cars too.

i checked out the ignition on that r1 today - those bastards ruined it

[Grub]

beleive it or not, the cops don't seem to care about students getting their bikes nicked, even though the thiefs are in stolen cars too.

They told you this when?

[motorbyclist]

they don't seem to care

i say this because as far as they're concerned it's just property and not people (ie drugs, assault) - and every experience i have had with stolen property and police is unsatisfactory to say the least

that, and the fact that while (is would seem) there is an attempted theft atleast once a fortnight on that road, they put an unmarked on the side of the motorway to catch speeders rather than on symonds street

the irony is that if they did set up on symonds street, they would not only have a good chance of recovering a stolen vehicle and possibly bikes, but they'd catch alot of speeders too - AND all the couriers/taxis that go down alfred street at speed (30kph limit - pedestrian zone) and then often do a left turn (no left turn last time i checked)

[bomma]

They told you this when?

when my house was burgled a lil wile back, the cops showed up and did a report and stuff and then they turned to my dad and asked him if we had insurance, my dad said yep, so they told us straight up that they arent going to continue further in their inquiry and that we should try and claim as much as we can back.....

my dad then asked em what would have happened if we didnt have insurance and the cops said "well then tough luck".....

a really inspiring story aye....really makes you want to trust the system....

[Grub]

they put an unmarked on the side of the motorway to catch speeders rather than on symonds street

Just remember, the yellow/blue cars are Highway Patrol and the orange/blue ones are general duties ones. The yellow cars are looking for traffic infringements and the orange ones are looking for baddies. That's how they're structured so that's how they have to work.

You don't see orange cars doing speedtraps nor yellow ones attending burgs. People get this emotively all wrong and spout this crap again and again without knowing the facts.

[HungusMaximist]

when my house was burgled a lil wile back, the cops showed up and did a report and stuff and then they turned to my dad and asked him if we had insurance, my dad said yep, so they told us straight up that they arent going to continue further in their inquiry and that we should try and claim as much as we can back.....

my dad then asked em what would have happened if we didnt have insurance and the cops said "well then tough luck".....

a really inspiring story aye....really makes you want to trust the system....

You know it's funny how when you call the 111 and go ''there's a burglar in my house WHAT THE FUCK should I do'', the operator will probably go 'stay in your house and whatever you do don't try to apprehend the burglar, a unit will be dispatched to your address within the hour'.

Then if you go 'there's a burglar in my house and I have a shot gun and I am thinking about using it'. The cops will be there within 30 mins with armed forces, helicopter and whatnot..

But to be honest Nish, if some low life thief came over and stole your shit, the cops are definitely not gonna send a forensic team over to dust finger-prints. It's harsh, but it's reality, they got better shit to do, e.g. pulling people over for speeding.

Next time, cause a scene and try to get the media involved, somehow.

[motorbyclist]

Just remember, the yellow/blue cars are Highway Patrol and the orange/blue ones are general duties ones. The yellow cars are looking for traffic infringements and the orange ones are looking for baddies. That's how they're structured so that's how they have to work.

You don't see orange cars doing speedtraps nor yellow ones attending burgs. People get this emotively all wrong and spout this crap again and again without knowing the facts.

i'm referring to the likes of the black holden that gave me my first speeding ticket (which i didn't argue about cause i was speeding - on an empty road without houses checking my wheel balance/alignment)

obviously if they blatantly put a patrol car on symonds street the theifs would never be seen again, but if they just had a mufti cop in mufti car they could catch the bastards and maybe even recover some stolen property

edit; wtf does it matter what colour the car is? it's still a cop in a car which may/may not be equipped to chase other vehicles

[ehab2weelr]

tell me bout it...
ok i know that the cops are there to make sure we are safe etc....
but because they dont have a zero tolerance to Theft , you will see so many people macking a living out of it...macking a living out of what you worked hard to get...
the cops can put some time into Controlling the Excessive thefts would mack life so much Easier for all of us...
but there is no mony for them in sttoping thefts where as there is in Traffic ..
dont know how speeding or pulling wheeles is a crime that must be stopped but theft and murder is not that great of a crime????

[Macstar]

Like I wrote in another thread, in a 12 moth period the year before the last the NZ Police issued 1.6 million traffic infringements to NZ motorists. NZ has a population just over 4 million of which maybe 50-60% drive vehicles. That means on average about 7/10 NZers received traffic infringements that particular year.

Either the majority of NZers are criminals or something has gone wrong. On the whole I think the Police do a very good job at solving murders and violent crime, they suck at burglaries and thefts and are EXCEPTIONALLY good at traffic policing.

People are pretty divided on this topic though and many traffic offendees are happy to pay fines when caught, acknowledging their wrong.

My two cents is that the rate of traffic offenses should not be markedly higher than that of other criminal activities i.e. if the real criminal element in NZ consisits of say 1/15 people (murder, theft, violence etc) how is that 7/10 of NZers are traffic criminals? The traffic laws and their enforcement are not appropriate in my opinion.

[marty]

Either the majority of NZers are criminals or something has gone wrong. .

i'd say they are just dumb fucks for getting caught.

[motorbyclist]

tell me bout it...
ok i know that the cops are there to make sure we are safe etc....
but because they dont have a zero tolerance to Theft , you will see so many people macking a living out of it...macking a living out of what you worked hard to get...
the cops can put some time into Controlling the Excessive thefts would mack life so much Easier for all of us...
but there is no mony for them in sttoping thefts where as there is in Traffic ..
dont know how speeding or pulling wheeles is a crime that must be stopped but theft and murder is not that great of a crime????

i'm sorry that just drove me nuts

i'd say they are just dumb fucks for getting caught.

lol today i passed 4 oncoming cops in a group doing 80 in a 50. i slammed the brakes to 60 - they all eyed me up but kept driving

about 100m later i was doing 80 again, and sure enough another cop came over a crest trying to catch up to his buddies - i tap brakes to 70 and he gives me the evils but keeps driving.

i went to speed back up again but saw another cop so stuck to 60...

lol i stuck to 60 for the next few ks, but had they ticketed me at even 70 i would be all out of demerit points and walking home. must be my lucky day