Stolen bike, police told to "fetch it yourself."..

[lllN30lll]

this is from from Gixerboyz...

I can't believe the police actually wanted to do **** all, and told him to go and fetch it himself. What if they'd have come running out of the house tooled up.

question is, what would you have done???

[Flip]

I'd have put a knife in pocket and done the same thing. As I would now know where he lived, I'd get my revenge. Probably start by burning his van.

EDIT/ It's fcking disgusting that the police were too busy, he could've got seriousy hurt trying to get it back.

[WishayKillie]

If true fair play to the boy for going and getting it. Although the van would have had a few extra modifications to it.
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[kitty kat]

When mine got stolen a couple of years ago, police found it phoned me & stood guard over it. I happened to walk past the end of the road where it was (they didn't tell me where they had found it). They were going to recover it to the pound, but I asked to be able to take it home. I was never told to retrieve it myself, in fact they didn't want me to as they wanted to fingerprint it. I just wanted my baby back where he belonged. They did dust him, but got nothing from him. I was just happy to get him back in one piece and relatively undamaged.

Obviously our police in Blackpool are a lot more considerate.
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[Kris]

The police won't want to get in a tussle, especially when there's a possibility of a real threat to their safety and there's only a few of them. What are you? Nuts?

Now if he was on his own and handcuffed and there were 300+ riot police then they'd be up for some action. Isn't that right Mr James?
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[Scouse]

The van and house windows would have been sensibly introduced to a good friend know as mr bat (cricket or baseball depending on teh anger) after moving the bike to a location down the street.

[Fizzmonkey]

Is everyone missing the excellent detective work of the police?
Not only did they find the bike, but while it was behind a van, under a cover, without the thief even realising! Hats off.

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[Kris]

[ZRX61]

So basically, the bike owner now has the address of KNOWN bike thieves & didn't post it? whatacunt

[chris-red]

I would pay a visit in the middle of the night knife the tyres and brick all the windows.
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[binge]

Would be petrol through letter box from me

Burn the place down.





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[Ste]

Lots of expanding foam in vehicle exhausts then spray paint "kiddy fiddler" "paedo" "nonce" and stuff like that on the front of the house where it can be seen from the road and by neighbours.

[GhostRider]

Surely theres the possibility that the owner of the house whereupon the bike was found had bought it off someone else i.e the real thief?

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[Mark65]

Was he sure it was the police and not some nice person letting him know where his bike was, although i find the coppers useless most of the time i cant see them saying get it yourself because if you did and somthing bad happened they would be in a grey area for a lawsuite i would think. Glad he got it back though

Mark
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[Nipedley]

It is pretty questionable how his bike was identified in such circumstances However if it did happen I doubt it was anyone that legitimately bought the bike from the thief. Would you buy a bike still with the disc-lock etc. on and with no keys, v5 Fairly obviously a dodgy deal there

[Bishbash]

I love how everyone is saying they would have done his van in and bricked all his windows. The only thing 90% of folk put in this situation would have been able brick, would be a decent pair of trousers.

I know I would have done the same, get bike... Feck off!
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[flamy]

This story beggars belief. I couldn't just take my bike back from whoever nicked it, I'd have said to the police I was going round to stab whoever did it, I bet they'd turn up then.

Makes me angry just reading this story
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[LordShaftesbu...]

Still, it's a pretty sweet dream isn't it ... to find your stolen bike outside someone else's house. Sure when mine got nicked I probably wouldn't have had the stones to do much but it's fun to pretend I could have burned his house down or something if I had found out who it was ...

[tutton]

Does happen the force down here told us to do it, when we found it before them, this was a modded up car and they'd just bent the top of the door down to gain entry. I think after we got it home they phoned up offering to take it away and get it printed but its cost something like 200 quid, when there probably was no prints anyway
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[Suitor_Stu]

To all those saying they'd vandalise some part of the thief's property, you really think that would be a good idea? I mean I don't know where the bike was stolen from but if it was the home address then the thief would know where you live (even if not, chances are they would have a note of the numberplate) and it doesn't take a massive leap of logic to realise that something happened to your house/van the same night that the bike was taken, put 2 and 2 together then suddenly you're looking at more problems than just another stolen bike!

[TheDonUK]

Post the adress im going through southall later,

Im up for a bit if vandalism
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