Did your bike get stolen last night? (found charge mixer)

i'd say, £60? why didn't you just phone the police?

Seriously?

Because you'd spend ages reporting it. No one would come in the time it took the guy to sell it, and he's be long gone. Someone else would have bought it and the owner would never have seen it again.

What kind of accurate a description is anyone going to give at 6pm on a Sunday night.

Didn't we discuss this already? hang on..
yes we did.

I'd say why pay £60.

You should have held firm and pushed for £40. Yet another fail.

you're the one who just gave a bike thief £60!?

right - like say oh it was this big guy in tracksuit and it was in east london, yeah, im sure you can track him down easily. no problem, happy to help.
so good to know there are people like you that offer an actual solutions to a problem. if i find the owner (which i hope) i'll tell him your suggestion and im sure he'll send you a thank you email.

yes we did!

Oh you found the owner? sterling work Nikola.

no i havent still! :( thought this thread would make it much easier, but alas, nope.

Didn't we discuss this already? hang on..
yes we did.
it's a bleeding forum!! just coz you don't want to discuss it anymore doesn't mean no-one else can!

i honestly believe she should have called the police. i'm no bike thief (honest guv) but i'm sure it's not as easy as just asking a couple of people to sell a bike for £60. the moral minority would tell the guy to fuck off so it would take longer than 5 minutes to shift it (imo). if the police were called and it was stressed that this person was a potential bike thief still in the immediate area, there is a good chance that the police would turn up quicker. if not, at least you've not contributed to his/her crack habit.

If it were your only bike that's gone missing you'd kick up this much of a fuss if it has been returned like this?
You'd run down brick lane asking for 'some shady looking pikey' to give back your bike. Asking him to hold it while you called the police?

If so, tell to the people that have had their stolen bikes returned.

Not saying we should all go around paying these scum bags but this whole thread is piss poor.

+1. I just wouldn't buy a stolen bike on principle, unless perhaps I knew, in advance, that I could get it back to the owner. Even then, I'd call the police on principle. If you do, then I think you have to shut the F up when yours gets stolen.

What do you do if you don't find the owner anyway? Thiefy has buggered off to steal some more thinking "easiest way to get £60 in my hand no questions asked even though she knew it was nicked", and you are left with a stolen bike. How does that help?

What do you do if you don't find the owner anyway? Thiefy has buggered off to steal some more thinking "easiest way to get £60 in my hand no questions asked even though she knew it was nicked", and you are left with a stolen bike. How does that help?

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Yeah but it's either her buying it or someone else buying it, probably on brick lane for a bit more money.
Catch 22.

@ BT
I appreciate that and have in the past questioned this action but to get the level of flak that has come doesn't sit right. You remember that thread of the girl that caught up with her bike and the new purchaser? She called the cops several times and they NEVER showed. Her bike? Gone again.

Maybe she consoled herself as she charged up her Oyster card, and got aquainted with some hairy armpit on the underground with "I did the right thing"?

As you are into technicalities Mr Mallett sir, surely you know it's Gas Safe now and not Corgi.

Clearly you think it is important to be correct all the time ??????

My own opinion, is that Nikola acted with the best intentions. So many people do nothing and then moan. Well done Nikola !

As you are into technicalities Mr Mallett sir, surely you know it's Gas Safe now and not Corgi.

Clearly you think it is important to be correct all the time ??????
haha, for a start that was a joke and secondly, i'm not hung up on people being gramatically correct at all times, i just don't like racist comments being thrown around.

stepsawayfromthethread

i'd say, £60? why didn't you just phone the police?

it's a bleeding forum!! just coz you don't want to discuss it anymore doesn't mean no-one else can!

i honestly believe she should have called the police. i'm no bike thief (honest guv) but i'm sure it's not as easy as just asking a couple of people to sell a bike for £60. the moral minority would tell the guy to fuck off so it would take longer than 5 minutes to shift it (imo). if the police were called and it was stressed that this person was a potential bike thief still in the immediate area, there is a good chance that the police would turn up quicker. if not, at least you've not contributed to his/her crack habit.

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fucks sake

haha, for a start that was a joke and secondly, i'm not hung up on people being gramatically correct at all times, i just don't like racist comments being thrown around.

oh, missed one while I was replying

Yeah but it's either her buying it or someone else buying it, probably on brick lane for a bit more money. Catch 22.

So we are all to go around buying up as many stolen bikes as we can afford at every opportunity, in the hope of selling them back to the owners at "cost", in case someone else does, and doesn't? That should do wonders for bike theft rates.

what can i say? i'm bored and felt like rejoiningthethread.

...i just don't like racist comments being thrown around.

Memes thread is that way >>>>>>

So we are all to go around buying up as many stolen bikes as we can afford at every opportunity, in the hope of selling them back to the owners at "cost", in case someone else does, and doesn't? That should do wonders for bike theft rates.

at no point did I suggest that we start a campaign to fund bike thieves. I'm just saying that I can understand her sentiments.

i called the cops on several ocassions and they'd turn up either
a) never
b) super late

my friend got mugged and cops just said, well sorry there's just so many of these offenders in the area, chances are we're never gonna catch him. despite her giving her best description.

of course i would be a moral hero if i caught the thief under my arm and held him until the cops came (i called them with my other free arm) and he got arrested and bike would return to the original owner and didnt stay locked on lost and found on police station forever coz no one claimed it. or i could have take a picture on him on a phone? or i could have just take a bike for a "test ride" and never come back (but stealing from thief is like double bad karma altho kind of hilarious) and what if he wasnt thief after all? what if i misjudged and he was just a slightly rough but cool guy, wanting to sell his bike on the street to feed his 14 starving children?

but i didnt. reasons i already gave. police slowness or unwillingness to help, the impossibility of finding the thieves "within the area' (have you ever been to dalston on saturday night? crowds like in rio) and frankly maybe im just stupid and didnt really think about it - from previous experience i did what i heard someone else did and it worked out for them. i bought the bike and im still hoping its going to find its owner.

not saying everyone's gotta do the same thing. or that it was the best thing to do.

now gimme a break? no? its almost midnight but i dont have to go to work tomorrow so its fine.

at no point did I suggest that we start a campaign to fund bike thieves. I'm just saying that I can understand her sentiments.

So can I. I just don't like the idea of knowingly buying stolen bikes, giving the thief £60 no questions for his efforts. Best case, owner gets bike back, meanwhile thief is out nicking more on back of instant cash success, so someone else is going to be a victim and probably won't ever get it back; net gain - nil. Worst case, no re-unite, laughing thief out nicking again, one stolen bike doing whatever in your hands.

No good deed goes unpunished, I must apologise for the rowdy and unruly element who flamed you for such a noble act Nikola. Well done you and I'm sure the owner will be in awe of you.
Thanks.
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what if i misjudged and he was just a slightly rough but cool guy, wanting to sell his bike on the street to feed his 14 starving children?

I bought bike last night in Dalston from pikey... and it's **obviously **stolen.
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