Bike Impounded, Mate Burgled - Rant

[TheDonUK]

Alright this is quite a long rant i need to vent, where to start.

How about last night, i posed this just before i went to sleep as you can see i had high expectations for the next day...

[Cigaro]

I would have taken off as soon as their backs were turned.

If they're not police then it's not an offence to just drive away.

[MinhDinh]

damn man, pretty shit day. well i guess you are alive and well. that's what i always say when i have a really tough time you know.

it can only get better is what drives me on and i don't complain about the bad too much.

anyway get your mate to change the door keys.
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[Finglonga]

[TheDonUK]

I came very close, very close to doing it, The van was blocking me in so i would have had to shimmy it back and forth and take off before they noticed im sure they would have tried to grab me, but i reckon my grab on the bars would have been stronger than their grab on me, especially if im caining it away, knowing my luck today though the usually reliable ZX6 wouldent have started on the button...

Also we had called the police about 20 mins ago so i thought they could literally be around the corner (they did show a couple of mins later).
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[stinkwheel]

I see your mistake. What you meant to say was:
So i park up on his quiet residential street in north west london, go inside for no more than 15 minutes, we both come out, begin to put our lids/gloves on when all of a sudden a van comes down the road (out of nowhere to us) and parks infront of my bike blocking me in, first i thought was this guy is gonna roll down the window and ask for directions, then he gets out of the van and walks over and says something about we are siezing your bike and crushing it! I bumped my bike up onto the pavement and made a sharp exit.
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[G]

I wonder how much money goes to the clamping-company (generally run by 'criminals') and how much goes to the government.
Sadly now the government schemes are making these crooks even more money than they're making themselves .

[TheDonUK]

[G]

Were you offered a receipt?

This is one case where Siggi's smashing a random window tactic could actually be reasonable (well, not /that/ random, the Bently or a house it's connected to). They should have an idea why people don't like them at least!

[TheDonUK]

Yes i have a receipt,

And funnily enough you should say that, the whole way there on the train all i was going on about to my mate is how im coming back at 4am, doing all of their tyres and windows in, i have lost the will now.

Plus its a fortified gated compound, it would involve wall scaling and dog dodging, plus there is probably a pikey campsite at the back somewhere... I could stand at the gate a lob random bricks and hope for a hit.

While i was winding them up before the took the bike i was saying that they were on the same level as traffic wardens, they seemed to know this fact, i image they all sleep like babies at night.

Dont worry though i do know where they operate now, and the faces of the 2 cunty ones...
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[stinkwheel]

Ok, in that case, should've got your nutter mate to nip round the other side of the van and let the tyres down while you kept them talking.

Then call the council and tell them someone is illegally double parked.

Damn, why do I always come up with this sort of shit after the time?
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“Rule one: Always stick around for one more drink. That's when things happen. That's when you find out everything you want to know.”
I did the 2010 Round Britain Rally on my 350 Bullet. 89 landmarks, 3 months, 9,500 miles.

[G]

I think the trink would be to find that Bently and have some fun with that (how about a bottle of piss in the cabin air intakes)?
Otherwise, you'll probably end up hitting other people's cars, which they'll riggle out of sorting out.

I don't have a big problem with traffic wardens actually getting properly-illegally parked people myself, though I appreciate in London most are seriously over-zealous. But then I still feel it's more on their boses and above's heads.
(When I get done for leaving my bike for five minutes outside the subway near my work, I might have another opinion of course!)

[TheDonUK]

[Itchy]

Dude you're a courier surely you know the turning in a tight space trick ie revv the balls off the engine spin the rear and slide the back out either way and ride off, when my NTV was healthier I could do that and I can still it but not as well (probably psychological fear of dropping the CBR).
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[TheDonUK]

Undoubtably if was able to do that i would have, it might even have made the story half interesting. Cold tyres would have worked in my advantage, as i say though for the 40 mins or so the whole thing was going on there was only a period of about 2-3 minutes when there was not at least 3 of them standing infront and to each side, and in that small window i have obviously bottled it...

Enough of all the advice, i made this thread for 2 reasons to vent and for your sympathy. So cough up or ill have the lot of ya, i bottled it by the road but im ready for some keyboard warrioring now.

If someone wants to start a collection i wouldent object either

No but fuckit i lost £100 and my day, my mate lost a £800 laptop and a decent amount of lovely hash, and had a burglar in their house, he got the raw deal, especially as he was only being a good friend by coming along. London full of wankers...

Edit for Villers to save the BCF'er>Don>BCF'er>Don>BCF'er>Don pattern that is emerging here:

You pretty much got it spot on there mate, at one point all of them were standing about 2 car lengths away, it would have been a case of switch lights off, killswtich on, sidestand up, 1st gear, ignition on, pray that it starts on the button and then go, i reckon i could do that in about 2-4 seconds, i reckon they were about 3-6 seconds away from me from the moment they realised, i probably COULD have got away, but as i said it was us that called the police and i thought i was legal...

Oh yea a £48 tax disc of a vehicle that does next to no damage to the roads, and my mate, poor bastard, firstly his girlfriend's dad is the landlord so it really makes you wonder how the hell someones got a key, and he got it majorly i mean she came in the house, slammed the main door and absolutely went nuclear, screaming "EVERY FUCKER OUT OF THEIR FLATS RIGHT NOW, WHO THE FUCK HAS STOLEN FROM ME", i took that as my cue to make a sharp exit...
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[Villers]

Don, forgetting the burglary for a moment, the whole bike thing sounds like a nightmare. If four very unofficial looking meatheads were trying to take my bike I would honestly be bricking it and I would know in my head that it would take a very dangerous 10 seconds to mount the bike, fire it up and get out of there. In which time all said meatheads have to do is push me hard from one side and I'm over. Very easy to say 'I would have legged it' but I bet you were shaking with adrenalin at that point?

So much bother over a tax disc when theres countless who are uninsured, taxed and MOT'd out there. Strange how you didnt get a reminder though.

Back to the burglary, that sounds like the crap that goes on in cheap hotels where people have the keys to the rooms. Would be asking some big questions of the landlord on that one. Poor mate, bet his mrs bent his ear all week over that one.


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[MinhDinh]

[tutton]

I dont want to be making this assumption, but you say there were 4 pikey looking blokes, and basically you had the banta with em, and in short told em there all c'unts. im guessing they also knew you'd be picking the bike up that day from what you'd already asked that day, am i the only person making the connection of them knowing you or your mate wernt going to be in?
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[G]

Not sure they'd know which was his mate's place?
Locks really aren't that hard to pick (or get around in other ways) in general, unfortunately.

[TheDonUK]

The thought very briefly crossed my mind tutton, If it was a straight break-in ie forced entry then for sure they would be prime suspects in my eyes, its the fact that the door was locked when we came back, someone had to have a key, and the likelihood of them having a key are so low i highly doubt it.

We tried breaking it into his door in a soft way, using credit cards and pens, no dice, there must have been a key used, especially as the downstairs neighbour said someone tried to open his door the night previous. I got a call from my mate a little while ago, he went out and brought some new locks and has fitted them now,

I honestly think it was just a convergence of bad luck on both our parts, coupled us both wanting and needing a nice fun day, Before we went out to the bike in the morning we were sitting in his house smoking one discussing what a good day today was going to be, oh the irony, it does feel as if fate is punishing us for daring to try and be happy...
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[Villers]

[stinkwheel]

Yale lock?

Don't trust them, an unskilled idiot such as myself can have one open, using a key, in about 30 seconds.

Look up "bump key" on this here interweb.
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I did the 2010 Round Britain Rally on my 350 Bullet. 89 landmarks, 3 months, 9,500 miles.

[TheDonUK]

Thats quite sick stinkwheel, looking at how that works it could easily be that... Scary, I just have a yale lock...
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[Cigaro]