Savages in this town…
My brother got a new bike off of ebay or something. He biked over to Dufferin Mall last week. He locked it in a rack with over a dozen other bikes. When he came back out it was gone. His lock was cut. He told this story at a family gathering this weekend and my Grandfather chuckled and said the same thing happened to my Dad at Dufferin Plaza (Dufferin Mall before it was big enough to be considered a mall) when he was young.
Yesterday my brother saw his bike locked up by a subway station. My brother’s first instinct was to steal it back. He called my Dad or something and my Dad suggested calling the cops. Cops came and said that they couldn’t do anything about it because my brother didn’t report it stolen. They said that he should have just stole it back. My brother ended up taking the seat off of it and taking the air out of the tires.
Savages in this town. You are on your own out there in the jungle called Toronto.
May 12, 2008 at 1:36 pm
Bikes, although they have some nice advantages, are really just asking for trouble these days. It’s a shame we live in a world where the bike is more trouble than its worth.
May 12, 2008 at 10:08 pm
Haha, it’s pretty funny that the cops suggested that he should have stolen it back. But what if it was just an identical bike?
May 12, 2008 at 10:23 pm
I don’t know. I am unsure if my bro’s bike has any features that separate it from its “brothers”.
May 13, 2008 at 11:10 am
How did he know for sure that it was his bike??
May 13, 2008 at 11:19 am
I don’t know. I heard the “finding the bike” story second-hand from my parents.