A 22-year-old Lawrence man reported Sunday the theft of a bicycle valued at $2,300.
According to police reports, the man reported the Trek Fuel 70 bicycle was stolen from the 700 block of Massachusetts between 1 a.m. and 9:41 p.m. Sunday.
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Bicycle theft reported on Mass. Street
November 11, 2009
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skinny (Richard Johnson) says…
Our homeless at it again!!
pfunk81 (anonymous) says…
probably the same a-holes that stole the wheels off my bike while it was locked up right by the door of the place I work at in broad daylight!
50YearResident (anonymous) says…
Some Bike @ $2300. I bet whoever stole it will never ride it anywhere. Maybe it will turn up at a local pawn shop, ; )
rooster (anonymous) says…
Dont steal bikes bro.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZfTicj...
garyr (anonymous) says…
Maybe one of the Gilchrist boys took it. They are always riding bikes.
Irish (Leslie Swearingen) says…
Our homeless? Like in the south where they say our N-----s?
I don't think so.
It was an opportunistic crime, someone came by saw it just sitting there and took it. Maybe someone who just wanted to get home and ditched it a block away.
It was took somewhere between one in the morning and almost ten?
I hate to be mean but you have got to keep a closer watch on your things than that.
50YearResident (anonymous) says…
Irish, I can't believe that you think it is OK for someone to steal a bike so they can get home and ditch it a couple blocks away just because the owner wasn't watching it!
Is that true?
jehovah_bob (anonymous) says…
I agree with Irish, it is indeed every man's right to steal a bike so they can get home and ditch it a couple blocks away just because the owner wasn't watching it.
The owner should be held fully accountable for the police work involved in tracking down his bike.
And for buying a $2300 bicycle.
blue73harley (anonymous) says…
Too bad trunk monkeys are not offered as optional equipment on bikes.
http://www.trunkmonkeyad.com/
Pywacket (anonymous) says…
To those who are bagging on the victim--especially jehovah bob~~ wtf??? The article doesn't say whether the bike was locked or not. I would assume that it was, with it's being a valuable bike. But even if it wasn't, the owner may have been too trusting, but that doesn't mean he "deserved" a theft.
My daughter lived at Naismith last year. Her 2 bikes were her only transportation to classes, her 2 jobs, and everywhere else she went. She kept the really good one in her room. The $800 one, which she had extensively customized, was attached with a sophisticated lock to the bike rack outside the building.
Late in the spring semester, some A$$h0le stole her bike--leaving all the others--from the rack. They must've had professional tools to disable the kind of lock she used. The police didn't seem overly interested in working the case--maybe because they knew the futility of it.
I think the bike was probably out of Lawrence within hours of the theft. My kid made the rounds of pawn shops & such--and kept an eye peeled wherever she went--until August, when she left Lawrence for her next adventure.
Anyway, thieves are soulless scum. And if you're defending them, blaming the victim, and/or assuming that someone "deserves" to be ripped off because they have worked hard and bought something nice for themselves, you are scum, too.