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Let me get this straight...you wheeled stripped bikes to the street, and then your surprised their gone??????

I don't imagine they were actually stolen, but picked up as trash.

Like I said in the previous post, these bikes would not have been mistaken for garbage. They were both clean bikes. It's not like I had frames laying out at the curb on their sides. The bikes were both on their stands, wheels attached, etc. They were stripped of plastics/carbs. The person who took these bikes (wether they took them for parts, to scrap, or to part out) knew that they were "stealing" the bikes.

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UPDATE!!!!!!!

Both bikes are now safely parked in my garage! I came home last night at 12:30 and both bikes were dumped in the street. According to an officer I had spoken to (to drop the stolen bike report), they had been there since at least 8:00.

I'm just happy to have my bikes back! I can take my parts out of storage and put them back on the Fizzer!

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UPDATE!!!!!!!

Both bikes are now safely parked in my garage! I came home last night at 12:30 and both bikes were dumped in the street. According to an officer I had spoken to (to drop the stolen bike report), they had been there since at least 8:00.

I'm just happy to have my bikes back! I can take my parts out of storage and put them back on the Fizzer!

So both bike frames were just laying in the street near your house when you got back? If so, that's awesome you got them back. :)

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Yep! Both bikes were just laying on their sides in the exact same place they were stolen from...I pulled into my court and thought "what the hell is that in the street?"...I almost SHAT my pants when I noticed they were my bikes.

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I had one suspect in mind. He lived a few streets over and matched the description given by one of my neighbors. Everyday I was driving up and down his street hoping to catch him with his garage door up. I confronted him about it about a week and a half ago, he denied it. Now they magically appear. Im just glad I was persistent about it

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meh.. I know this really sent you for a loop, but this is a case where I'd turn a cheek. The guilt that this guy must have experienced to bring the bikes back the same way they left must really be something. I'd trust the powers that be (be that god or karma) to handle this one.

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Maybe the thief/thieves read the following post. Congrats by the way.

+1 Scrappers just might be dumb enough to think that shit would be trash... I would still kick some ass and get the bikes back if possible' date=' but parking stripped down bikes by the curb and leaving them is poor planning. Dublin has been pretty good on crime, mostly teenagers without enough supervision doing minor vandalism and such. But I see the scrappers running around picking up old appliances all the time. Nothing sits on our street for more than a few hours.

I try to keep mine parked where it is more difficult to load them into trucks without looking extremely suspicious. People take more notice if you have to back a truck into a yard or carry a locked bike around cars by hand to load it into the back. Also the nearer to the house doors the criminals are forced to work the more nervous it typically makes them. The easy snatch is too much temptation for the opportunistic criminal type and very hard to catch after the fact.

Not really, works sometimes but I have had people lie to me under simple threat of a quick death. Not that they are macho, but they watch movies and TV a lot and don't think you will really blow their brains out. This is no good for getting information since if you prove your point, they can't answer anyway and you can only cock the hammer back dramatically so many times before you just appear unable to operate the firearm. Torture is unreliable, messy and takes effort to do correctly. Plus, more evidence gets left behind....

If you really want to pump them, make them dig their own six by six. The physical labor and time to think has a profound psychological effect. Negotiation will start immediately, but don't get baited in just yet. Continue to make them dig as if you are only interested in saving the labor yourself and soon they will stop negotiating and start spilling everything they know in desperation. If they refuse to dig, explain that if you have to dig it, they will be lying on the ground screaming their death from a gut shot but if they dig it they can die tired, but swiftly. Anger does not typically play well, shows a lack of control on the part of the interrogator and weakens your position. Do this calmly, methodically, but without discussion or apparent mercy. Once they believe you, the work is already done. I can tell you that this method has never failed to get me truthful answers, and the sight of a grown man crying....[/quote']

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meh.. I know this really sent you for a loop, but this is a case where I'd turn a cheek. The guilt that this guy must have experienced to bring the bikes back the same way they left must really be something. I'd trust the powers that be (be that god or karma) to handle this one.

I've only accused one person of stealing my motorcycles. This was the guy that fits the description given in a craigslist AD and also given by my neighbor that had seen the guy leaving my court with my bikes (Big/Fat white guy in a full size white truck). I talked to a CPD officer who told me that there was a known issue with drugs a few streets over.

I drove over and what do I see? A big white guy standing next to a late-model full size dodge. Later that night I talked to a few of the neighbors in the court and asked them about the guy. I asked if they might have seen him coming home w motorcycles, or if they had seen him doing anything else that's unusual. Of course, 1 of the neighbors I talked to just happened to be "friends" of his. They said he wasn't a thief and didn't have any interest in talking to me. When I left the court, I went home and parked my truck, started walking inside, and I noticed that those same guys (his friends) followed me home and they were turning around in my court.

I talked to a few people, and from what I heard this guy is a drug dealer and apparently not someone you want to fu*k with. I let it go and I decided to just keep an eye out at his house for the white truck, open garage, and anything to confirm that he has my bikes. I kept driving past his house and watching over things (he lives in a court) and about a week and a half ago I was driving down his court, turned around and went home.

Shortly after I got inside I heard a knock at the door, of course, it's the guy that I suspected of stealing my SH*T. He told me that he heard a guy with a mohawk was asking around about stolen bikes and that I thought he did it. He basically said that he works for a living and isn't a thief. I told him that he fits the description given, and I told him that I think he has my bikes.....He said I could come check his garage if I didn't believe him. Anyways, This guy is really grimey and could pass for a criminal/drug dealer and his from what I noticed in my month of surveillance/driving by his place, his friends across the street always have different people over, and there always seems to be people coming and going....

Last night, out of the blue, my bikes are thrown out in the street like garbage. The only person that would have any reason to return the bikes to me at my house, would be the person I accused. If it were anyone other than the guy accused, they would have dumped them at some other random place. Or they would have scrapped them.

Sorry, But I refuse to believe that the thief/thieves involved brought them back out of the goodness of their hearts. I just think they decided that they don't want to have to worry about myself/the Columbus Police watching over their shoulders. I think that with or without my help, these guys will be punished

- Sorry for the long post, just needed to VENT!

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Anyways, thanks for the replies, I'm glad that over a thousand people were able to look over this AD, hopefully it keeps at least one of you guy's/girl's out there from getting your SH*T stolen. Lock it up when it's not in the garage, and remember, it's not safe regardless of where you park it. I'm headed home to talk to my neighbors and see if any of them saw the thiefs dump my bikes last night.

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