Comments on: they stole my bike

By: lva » what exact problem do the japanese have with my bike?

lva » what exact problem do the japanese have with my bike? — Tue, 29 Nov 2005 15:19:16 +0000

[...] Jesus, what is it with the Japanese? Exactly what argument do they have with me that means that they have to keep messing with my bike? Not three weeks have elapsed since they stole my last one, and now they go and sabotage my new one: I leave it chained to a metal ring in the wall of the parking area of my building, and the Japanese — realising that this time they can’t steal it — decide that if they can’t have it then no-one will. They calmly, deliberately engage the wheel-lock, remove the keys which I, foolishly, left in to shave a few seconds off my morning run to the station, and they disappear into the night with those keys in hand and, probably, a little spring in their step at the deliciousness of what they’ve just done. Perhaps they stop along the way to drop my keys down a drain. Probably they do. [...]

By: lva

lva — Fri, 18 Nov 2005 11:35:53 +0000

Hi May,

The other information they ‘needed’ was the bike’s serial number, which I found out by going back to the shop where my landlord had bought the bike, and getting them to go through their records - at which point they told me that the police have all bikes’ serial numbers in their computer, and they could have looked it up given the security number (which I had told them I knew). So I really think they just couldn’t be bothered to file a report on a bike they knew there was almost no chance of finding. Pah!

Mouth ulcer is better now, thanks. I did the hot salt water thing, and it seems it (eventually) worked.

By: may

may — Thu, 17 Nov 2005 23:42:36 +0000

oh dear… do try to keep calm even though it is not something you’d think of right now.

i wonder what other info. they require.

rinse your mouth with salt water — it WILL hurt but salt is good for ulcers. and DRINK lots of H20.

oh crappy… i hope something positive will surface soon… hang in there.

By: lva

lva — Thu, 10 Nov 2005 15:02:37 +0000

Andrew: … getting your bike stolen and having a mouth ulcer! At the same time!

Is spending your whole salary in one week not, on some level - admittedly some foolish level that overlooks certain important reasons why it is a bad idea to spend your whole salary in one go - quite fun? For one thing, I’d imagine you could eat all the green beans and drink all the coffee you like in that week, if you so chose.

Unless you were spending it all just on paying off parking fines, or blackmailers, or witnesses. Or a dentist. That would be gutting.

By: lva

lva — Thu, 10 Nov 2005 14:44:18 +0000

Mum: Pah! I took the ‘missing information’ to the police, and then it turned out there was more information that they ‘need’ before they can file a report. Didn’t have time to go back again today, so by the time I even manage to officially report the incident three days will have passed since it was stolen. Going to be chaining the (replacement) bike to railings in future (I’d been just running the chain through the spokes). Which, statistically, is bound to make me late for work several times over the next couple of months. Pah! to bike-stealing kids / Yakuza / Taliban. And pah! to lazy, incompetent police.