I was totally on her side until she posted the guy's name and phone number on her Facebook page after she got the bike back, inviting her friends to take matters into their own hands. This kind of petty vigilantism turns my stomach.
Bike thievery is rampant in Vancouver, so much so that I almost didn't buy the Betty Foy because of it. If I didn't have secure bike parking at home and at work, I might not have ever bought one. Knowing that her bike was stolen in my neighbourhood, right down the street from my apartment makes me worry even more. We've seen a lot of unsavoury types in the area of late. Here's another bike theft story with a happy ending: A friend's wife had her trike stolen. The trike was really well known among our social circle, and a few people told my friend they'd seen the trike around town. They posted flyers in the area around where the trike was stolen, and a down on his luck guy phoned them and told them he saw the trike parked in the back garden of a nearby halfway house. My friend phoned the police, and she and her wife made their way to where the bike was chained up. The police and the guy who phoned were waiting for them at the halfway house when they arrived, and they retrieved the trike safely. The guy who told them where the trike was refused to take a reward. On Tuesday, August 27, 2013 9:37:47 AM UTC-7, Tom Virgil wrote: > > I can't condone this (re-thievery) as the thief may be dangerous as well > as stupid. There's a bit of NSFW language in the article, so you may want > to use discrestion. Girl steals bike > back<http://grist.org/list/girl-steals-bike-back-from-bike-thief/>There is a > good ending (also controversial). > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
