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Yeah I want to now the rest of this story!
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I happened to be there when digs and oosedat were waiting for the police to arrive. It was on my way home and sounded exciting. Since there seems to be some appetite for details I will fill in what I can, although a nodder started talking to me and I got distracted...
So I arrived outside St. Ockwell station where there were two young gents who could only have been aforementioned fixxie skiddun lurkers. There was also some old geezer who was also rather excited although I think he was an extra more than anything...
Who knows how ooseddat saw that bike. Although it's outside the station the bikes aren't well lit and you would have to have been looking to see it. And make the mental connection with the stolen bikes thread. I don't know how he saw it. Mad eyesight skillz.
I can't quite remember how the bike was originally locked (Digs had things in hand by the time I'd got there) but they'd slipped on another, and I think it only had one flimsy lock on it at the time. The police had alreaddy been called, and DIgs had receipt in hand...I'd printed the picture off the forum although I doubt that would have been good for very much.
So after 5-10 minutes the police rocked up, looking somewhat bored at being called out for such a 'petty' incident. This was when I got distracted so the details I have here are thin...but they cut the lock without too much fuss and went on their way. Not sure what happened in terms of official reports etc., but cue a beaming DIgs86, reunited with his steed, a lucky lad...
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You all deserve a medal(pint). Best thread ever!
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for Velo Libre's cryptic post:
http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=elephant+road+london&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&hl=en&tab=wl -
that tells us NOTHING! I want facts!
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no that's not fair - aight -
i was waiting for Tim to finally SIGN UP to LFGSS and tell the whole thing HIMSELF ...
alas
he's lazy and ungrateful - so i'll do it - thanks spybot toooo for ur reel
Le Story
**MY MATE TIM was off to plan b but was feelin for some grub before hand so locks up outside brixton station - racks are all full - only one left is a in a shady...shady corner behind a column.
he didnt have his dlock - just some stringy wire lock thing.
'i've seen them do it japan so it must be cool!'heads straight for sainsbury's reduced section - all gone. pastries...all gone
m & s next stop - too tarty
kebab - not time yet
newsagent - yeah aight"oh shit i'm back at plan b..might aswell go in now"
2 hours later back at the racks - [ ] <---- space where bike was..
//////cut to next day ///////
I [digs86] call to help out, tim then hits
brixton market - nuttin
brixton cycles - a little advice received 'check REcycle'///////cut to recycle -Elephant & Castle//////
Tim walks up to the counter - oh snap!
looks down at brown viking frame same decals
"it's my frickin bike but with all components swapped out like some frankenstein shit"
"...can't tell totally if it's my frame man come down and bring pics"
on the phone it sounds sketchy - surely one would know their own bike, but if it's been fucked scratched up and frankensteeen'ed i give him the benefit of the doubt.
i rock up - go in - check it out
hot daym - the day i see another viking is the day after my mates one gets nicked.
still we get it out fo a test and flip it over for that serial...nope
this definitely is not his.
i get home and think it'd be a good idea to hit up a pic on lfgss - more eyes on it is better than few - i put it up as though it was my own ride - thinking 'my bike stolen' would be more immediate/considered than 'my mates bike stolen' [ retrospectively i dont thin this would have been any different]. i also knew the details, and that fuckin shit red trek saddle ended up saving the fuckin day.
/////cut to after work two days later/////
chillin on a train - nuttin goin on ..man i could do with a cup of TEA a couch some TV oh yeah LFGSS might as well check it out...
PM's pop up in my face like ned@digs86: 'ummm, in case anyone hasnt told you - u should check this thread...'
[ninja ned ey.. has been nowhere in sight since.]aight check the thread-->
bike found in stockwell
(O_O)*/
so im on the phone to tim like a shot - BAM!.... no answer...for 6 tries
fuck it i phone the police, tell them the deal - its all online its been spotted - so he goes off to chat to his superior for tiiime to see what they can do
['umm yeah hi sergeant umm this guy on the phone.. talking about a forum wha..']- NOTHING...cant do shit until tims out there and has ID'd it
finally get thourgh to Tim:
TIMYOURBIKESOUTSIDESTOCKWELLGETONITGETDOWNTHERESOMELFGSSFORUMGEEZSPOTTEDITWEGOTLIKETWOCHAINSONTHATMUTHAITSSECUREIHPHONEDTHEPOLICETHEYSAYUNEEDTOBEDOWNTHEREGOGOGO!
its on.
so i continued to update the proceedings of the evening up on the thread - eventually reaching home whilst doing so. sitting on the couch with my cup of tea, STILL with all this shit goin on...!
pulse racing - he's gotta get his shit BACK!
so he's all like - YOU'REFUCKINKIDDINAIGHTILLJUMPONMYBIKEAND....aaahhhhh FUCK!!@#
so he jumps on his MUMS bike 'THE ELIZABETH' pumps up tires rides out end of the road
the
inner tootingtyre BLOWS OUT. fuck take that shit home
aight time to take mums car and jet!I'M STILL updating eta's and ting up on here in case ooosedat is on. fuck phones this is more exciting.
so now some shit goes down
BUT I'M FUCKED NOW AS I'M NOT THERE AND DON'T KNOW WHAT'S GOING ON and can't update anything....
cats start asking all about it
i dont know shit
more pleas come in
tim doesnt sign up, but writes it all up for me to post...? fine.
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so I rocked up there bout 8 to find the bike sitting there, as I last saw it, except with the culprit's (quite nice) D-lock on there and oooseddat's fat chain.
Upon positive identification I gave the po po a ring and was told I'd have to wait up to an hour for any help...
At this point the perp was nowhere to be found, I assume still in town somewhere seeing as the bike had been sitting outside the tube station all afternoon. Time was of importance though, obviously if the suspect came back and found 'his' bike locked up by someone else it was all gonna kick off. So the waiting game started! Who would get there first, police or the wanker??
Bout halfway through waiting around someone else off the forum turned up, offering to put yet another lock on!! Amazing! Sorry mate, forgot the name - was it Skybot? Great effort man thankyou!
Got bored and hungry after a while and had to pop into the shop for a pastry and a ginger beer, but eventually two policemen rocked up in a squad car after about a half hour / 40 mins...
They were actually really sound and obviously fully co-operative, seeing as the bike matched the exact description I'd given them on Friday, I had photos of me sitting on the damn thing and the golden ticket ... the original receipt from 1981 complete with serial number.
Convinced enough they then got a whopping set of bolt cutters out the squad car and CHOMPED THAT DLOCK IN HALF. This obviously attracted a bit of attention, it's not everyday you see the police nicking someone's bike ;)
Would have loved to hang around to see the thief in question bop out the tube to see zero remains of the bike he'd left there this morning, but seeing as that was me on Friday night, I didn't want to end up feeling sorry for the bastard.
Big respect and thanks to oooseddat for not only spotting the bike, but actually going home, getting a chain and coming back to lock it up!!!!! make it down to South London beers, I owe you a few!
Plus the other heads that came down to protect the Viking! (they are an endangered species)
An amazing relief basically, and apart from a bit of a dent on the handlebars and a couple new scratches (to go with the hundred already on it) the bike is as I left it. Thank you to all the lfgss heads for the incredible help and support. Power to the internets!
brap brap brap!
i hit up the stolen thread for mr tim hoping that the ill-matic powers that be might turn a mate's bad fortune around.
felt like being at a command centre, relaying the info from forum to tim/ tim to forum + police to tim / tim to police in real time - that's right some 2chan shit
what was that jap film called where the dude meets a chic and panics and his online 2chan community sort him out?..
anyway
indeed this is an amazing feel-good London [[partially]online] community tale THAT TOTALLY ROCKS
** BUT BECAUSE ITS NOT A MYSTERY NOW SUCKS**many people have said it should be sent to the press blah blah - but i like how ninja like we come across in this - we should stay under the general publics radar
and STRIKE whenever mutha.uckers try step to us.
BAM!
man we could do anything!
**Tim take your
i'm out.**
- NOTHING...cant do shit until tims out there and has ID'd it
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Stolen bike found in stockwell
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Impressive. But come on, give us the full story. Did the BiB co-operate?