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My bike got nicked out of the bike locker on my street. My partner had a few days off work, was supposed to be studying for an exam but instead went full Miss Marple. Found the guy selling my bike and a bunch of others on Gumtree. Was calling himself Horatio so was quite easy to see all the bikes the daft fucker was selling. On one of the pics you could see out of his window and he literally lives round the corner. She went round and could see some of the bikes through the glass door of the block of flats he lived in and took pics of it. So our friends who lived opposite him then filmed him selling the bikes to people from their flat. We handed all this to the police. They went round and arrested him (my bike had already been sold for about 10% of what it was worth) but in the end let him go without charge because “insufficient evidence”.

So yeah. Little faith it would make much difference. Sadly, insurance probably the only way.

Oh, and the best part… a few days later, Horatio posts a “Want to buy” ad on Gumtree looking for a “battery powered angle grinder, preferably as quiet as possible” cos his last one had given up the ghost.

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