Stealing custom fabricated one-off bikes worth half what you make in a year and then riding around on them like it's no big deal is giving tweakers a bad name.
Damn! I want a Hufnagel frame so bad but it's a 2.5 year waiting list last time I checked. And stealing one is pretty stupid, not one is the same. Like stealing the Mona Lisa. "This is clearly MY Mona Lisa, I just got it off craigslist!"
That was a pretty hilarious pic. Huge headphones over the ridiculous oversized baseball cap. Ahhh, I hope the bike makes its way back to its rightful owner without anyone being hurt. OK, maybe hurt just a little.
I hate to be the one to bring this up because the vigilante spirit is obviously high, but there's a chance the kid in the picture bought it or traded for it or was given it by the actual thief. I'm not saying that's a certainty, but that's kinda how it works sometimes with criminals and thieving pieces of shit, and I don't know if it's necessarily fair to just sentence this (again) kid to a lynching on sight.
Sounds like someone confronted him about the bike on the MAX and the guy bolted. That sounds like the behavior of a thief or someone in knowing possession of stolen property. Guilty regardless.
No one said anything about anyone having been seen stealing the bike, at least not here or on the Craigslist posting.
I also love all the assumptions that the thief is a meth head who stole a super-expensive bike in order to... put a rack or basket on it and ride it around town? Not really how addiction-related theft works.
@lyle, I was being somewhat facetious, but on the other hand if the bike in question belonged to me or a friend I probably would not be very nice about getting it back. I am not making any assumptions as to who stole it or why, but theft is wrong.
Fooled me
all the same, good luck in finding the thieving bastard.
(I was laughing about the fixed-gear too.)
I too am hoping this guy gets his ass kicked.
This must be the d-lord in question: http://portland.craigslist.org/mlt/bik/345…
And that look in his eyes is priceless: It's either terror or tweaker, perhaps both.
I also love all the assumptions that the thief is a meth head who stole a super-expensive bike in order to... put a rack or basket on it and ride it around town? Not really how addiction-related theft works.
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