My bike

[steveo]

I've just seen a kid riding the bike he nicked from my house last year. I can't prove it but it's my bike alright. And short of violence, there's nothing I can do about it.

[RosieH]

Then violence it is...

[SeanMacGabhann]

definitely the same kid and not some kid who innocently got given it by the actual thieves?

[RosieH]

Ah yes, you make a valid point Sean, maybe not violence then.

[steveo]

And when he paid twenty quid for it round the back of the flats, he didn't think it might be stolen?

[womanofdulwich]

a wire across the road - raise it as they approach- and voila-

[Jah Lush]

Nick it back off him.

[Ladymuck]

Do you know where this kid lives? If so, tell the police and (provided you can prove that it's yours) you should be able to get it back - whether the kid paid for it or not as, legally, it remains yours (I think).

I really wouldn't advocate violence.

Good luck.

[steveo]

You knock him off and hang on to him and I'll ride off

[RosieH]

Jah and steveo - the new A Team. Can I be Tania?

[Jah Lush]

Pah! The A Team was shit. We're more like Bonehead & Foyle in The Bullshitters.

[RosieH]

I prefer to think of you as Butch and Sundance

[ianr]

>I can't prove it

That's where a record of the frame's serial number comes in handy.

[jamesb]

RosieH Wrote:

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> Then violence it is...

Ditto that!

[rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrqwef43]

Maybe he paid more than twenty quid for it. Or bought it off someone who did pay twenty quid for it round the back of the flats. Or found it abandoned. Or maybe it just looks exactly like your bike but isn't (though probably is).

In any case, it'd be worth talking to him - I had a bike nicked once and then when I saw it down the side of a house a few weeks later I knocked on the door, said, "that's my bike", and the kind gang of youths were only too happy to invent some lame story which exempted them from blame and let me take it away. Nice bike that.

Cheers!

Rory

steveo Wrote:

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> And when he paid twenty quid for it round the back

> of the flats, he didn't think it might be stolen?

[RosieH]

jamesb Wrote:

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> RosieH Wrote:

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> > Then violence it is...

>

>

> Ditto that!

james, you know I was joshing, right?

[Mick Mac]

I think you could be violent Rosie. You dont fool me.

[RosieH]

Only with you Michael.

[Mick Mac]

Ah - she called me Michael.

[RosieH]

That's phase 1...

[Saffron]

Ask Pearson to lay a trap and some poison for 'em.