My mountain bike was stolen last night!!!

[draggar]

Don't worry - I was throwing it out anyway.

I just have to wonder how desperate someone had to steal it?

This mountain bike was sitting in our storage shed for years. It's condition:

* The back tire barely spun (rusted) - I had to drag it out to the garbage last night
* The chain was completely rusted - I'm sure if the back tire spun it wouldn't have worked.
* The back tire gears were not spinning with the tire (when the tire spin)
* The tires were completely flat and chewed on by mice
* The breaks did not work
* The entire bike was covered in mouse droppings (solid and liquid) and god knows what else

They must have been really desperate, I'm sure it will cost a lot less to buy a newer, nicer bike at Target (under $200) than to get this one fixed!

I'm debating if I want to get a new one, even though they're cheap at Target (as I said, under $200), it's still a lot of money now.

[Cat]

attack of the freegans? though not if it was out of your shed.

even if you were gonna toss it, that bites.

[draggar]

No, it was outside with the garbage. The thing is that we put our garbage behind our homes (it's a row of townhomes). Someone had to be back there to see it.

[crazylegs]

Bizarre,

I thought you were about to tell us that you £/$1000 bike had been stolen but a rusty unservicable one? That's just odd :headscratch:

[draggar]

Yep, and don't forget it was covered in mouse / rat $h!t, too.

I'm actually chuckling over it.

[Greenday]

Hey, if you have no money and need some kind of transportation, and the person is throwing it out, why not? Better than nothing.

[protege]

Some people will steal anything. For example, I had someone try to steal my shitbox Ford Tempo from the mall parking lot once :eek: Even though I never locked that car...someone had the balls to pop the lock out of the passenger door. I'm sure that took longer (and made more noise!) than if he'd simply opened it :lol: I'm still surprised at why someone would have *wanted* that car. It didn't look bad from a distance, but the transmission was ailing, the brakes were at times, inoperable (:eek:), and the driver's door flew open if you hit the brakes :eek:

Then there's the time someone got into my Mazda...and stole my parking pass. Of all the things that were in there--CDs, my model train stuff, airbrush, etc., they left all of that alone, and took that stupid $5 card. Never mind that even though my then-gf's building used a similar card...it wouldn't have worked. I'm sure the thief was pissed over that :rolleyes:

[Bella_Vixen]

A few years ago, when I bought my first car, I never locked it. I thought we lived in a nice enough area to not worry about it.

At some point, someone broke into (opened one of the doors) and stole...






...my Mardi Gras-like beads. :confused:

They left the pocket change, and whatever else I had in there (granted, not much) and STOLE my BEADS.

I still laugh every time I tell that story.

[draggar]

Hey, if you have no money and need some kind of transportation, and the person is throwing it out, why not? Better than nothing.

Because it would have probably cost more to fix it than to buy a new one (hence why I was throwing it out?). (Needed new tires, new breaks, a new chain, and one hell of a cleaning).

To think, too, the back tire barely spun so they needed to drag it to wherever they took it, unless they're garbage pickers who go around the neighborhood at night in a truck.